It seems that the flowers are late this year. We had the shoots coming out of the ground in February, I think, but it seemed to take a long time for them to flower. Actually, I'm not sure when is the normal "first bloom" date around here. Now that I have a blog, I'll have to compare next year's date to today's.
Here's a poor photo:
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Do you have crocuses too?
Crocuses, daffodils, and tiny lilies of the valley just started coming up in Germany (for those who put the bulbs out last fall) this past week and last week. The European winter was harsher than usual later than usual, so the crocuses and daffodils also came up later than usual.
However, stores were filled with "indoor" daffodils for Easter. The main thing for sale was mostly a smaller variety called ''tête à tête.'
daffodil = Narzisse, Osterglocke
crocus = Krokus
Daffodils belong to the same family as amaryllis.
We know the name 'narcissus' as a Greek hero who was so beautiful that all the dryads and nymphs fell in love with him. However, he had eyes only for himself. So the Greek gods decided to punish him. One day, he stopped by a brook or stream, saw his reflection in the water, and was so in love with it that he tried to hug it, fell into the water, and drowned. His body was cast onto a funeral pyre, but as the flames reached his corpse, they were shoved back. In the place of the body was left a flower; namely, the narcissus.
The shape of the flower, with a crown, is supposed to remind us of the hero Narcissus bending over the water and seeing his own reflection.
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