This post was supposed to have the title Dandilions and Gorse, both are in bloom. The dandilions anywhere and everywhere the gorse in the open moorland and roadsides. I put two containers out. One for the hollow, smooth stem of the dandelion the other for the thorny twig of gorse. My question was were they both the same yellow?
Then this happened. Roy was cutting the lawn and I wanted to make sure the lawn daffodils were ‘safe’, and this is what I saw.
One mature clump of yellow daffodils had changed to white and lemon doubles. Why?
Apparently many famous garden flowers started exactly like this – a gardener noticing one weird, beautiful bloom in a sea of standard ones and then separating the bulb to clone it.
I won’t do that but I will enjoy seeing what happens in 2027. Will it go back to being what it was for the last 10 or more years or will it be double like it is right now 2026?
I put it in the container instead of the gorse,
A dandilion and a double daffodil,
A surprise!
I’m so pleased to have it in the garden and here in this post.
‘ The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.’
Ashley Montagu.
‘ The Lord’s mercies are new every morning and great is His faithfulness.’
Lamentations 3: 23.
I think the dandelion has a touch of orange, but the gorse never got picked so maybe it does too?
Expect the unexpected! Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
Wonderful! Love your ending words too!
Thank you! It is good to have a surprise!
Lovely daffodils but I always wonder why they are usually yellow or white. I would love to see other colors in them.
Thank you , Lauren. There are pink/ peach and white and orange and yellow together. I guess they could breed different ones.