The season of daffodils is upon us.
Since Christmas, the most precocious of our garden daffodils have been coming into bloom — fragrant Scilly and Cornish varieties that have long given that part of the world a head start in the English cut-flower market.
But Lent, the daffodil’s main season, is now upon us.
More and more narcissi will be bursting into bloom with the approach of Easter, hence Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the wild daffodil…