British Spring Time: Narcissus is turned to a flower

It may have been a summery 20°C and hotter for the past week here in the north-west and the clocks are now on British Summer Time, but these daffodils in a proudly kept front garden are a sure sign of British Spring Time. Daffodils are a common name for the narcissus.  Linked to the Ruby Tuesday blog.

We turn to Wikipedia for more information on narcissi and daffs: The youth of Greek mythology Narcissus became so obsessed with his own reflection as he kneeled and gazed into a pool of water that he fell into the water and drowned. In some variations, he died of starvation and thirst from just sitting by the edge of the pool until he gave out, gazing at his reflection until he died. In both versions, the Narcissus plant first sprang from where he died.The other derivation is that the plant is named after its narcotic properties (narkao, "I grow numb" in Greek).

The name Daffodil is derived from an earlier "Affodell". The reason for the introduction of the initial "d" is not known, although a probable source is an etymological merging from the Dutch article "de," as in "De affodil."