Thursday 1 March 2012

Dydd Dewi Sant - St David's Day ...


Wishing you all a very happy
St David’s Day!


I love to see daffodils wild in the woods behind our house. However today I will have a bunch on my desk at school.



Just beside the stile into the woods is this plaque, which has been there for about 5 years.

I always wonder who David was, and how he ended up there …

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  1. Naturalised, not wild - yours, pedantically...

    Very pretty all the same.

    Whoever David was must have loved the place like you do. It's a nice little plaque, so someone loved him too.

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    1. How can you tell the difference between a naturalised and wild daffodil?
      At first we thought it must be a dog but I've never heard of a dog called David. I have a photo that I will do a blog post of my father (who died 10 years ago) sitting at that spot. I can't think that there are more than 15 people in the whole world who ever walk that way ...

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    2. Wild daffs are not eggyolk yellow like that. They are pale yellow, hardly more than cream,and the trumpet and petals are slightly different colours. They aren't very common any more. I've seen them in Wales and occasionally here in France. Unfortunately they hybridise with the garden cultivars that people plant out in the wild, so the wild species is slowly disappearing.

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  2. Happy St David's day to you too. 'Come on Wales' for Six Nations victory - you'd have to be daff to bet against them!

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    1. Hi Jim and Pauline,
      I hope you're right!
      I'm taking a school trip to a science event at the NEC on March 17th when Wales play France - VERY bad planning. Still, there will be a nice cold bottle of sparkles chilling in the fridge for when I get home. I'll either be celebrating, drowning my sorrows or trying to blot out an exhausting day ...

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  3. Happy St David's Day, Gaynor !!
    It's so good to see the daffs coming out - snowdrops just don't do it for me.
    I guess David was a beloved husband or father of someone and his ashes are now in his favourite spot. And what a lovely place it is too.

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    1. Jean, daffodils are my absolute favoutite flower.
      It is a lovely spot and I have a couple more posts lined up about it. Watch this space ...

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  4. Hello Gaynor:
    There are few sights more cheering than a sheet of Daffodils growing naturally. How wonderful to have them near to where you live.

    Have a wonderful St David's Day and enjoy your vase of golden cheer at school!

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    1. Thank you Jane and Lance.
      Daffodils are my favourite flower, and very inexpensive too!

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  5. What joy they bring to the dark wood!

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    1. I agree Broad.
      I enjoyed your post on the theme of daffodils too, particularly the time study. A great idea...

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  6. How curious and that the plaque should be among the daffodils.

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    1. The daffodils around the pack were minature ones so I guess that they were planted when the plaque was placed there. I'm intrigued as to who and why ...

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    2. You describe exactly the ones I remember growing wild in the woods when I was a child growing up in Wales. I'm sure the situation is the same with bluebells...

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