Have you ever had the pleasure of receiving a bunch of Cornish daffodils by post?
Of course when they arrive they don't look quite like this, but should be in tight bud.
This is how the daffodils come from the grower.
Can you imagine what they look like in the fields ?
At this time of year our local daffodil growers are busy picking and bunching hundreds of stems to be sent to London markets.
It is a big industry for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and daffodil growing has been an important part of our economy for over 100 years.
Long ago ladies from the village picked the bunches, but now Eastern European workers come here for the daffodil season.
During the war many of the evacuees were used as pickers. I love this photo of children in 1943, with their little bunches!
Once the railways came to Penzance, deep in the South West of Cornwall, it was so much easier for growers to get the flowers to markets.
Below is an embroidered panel, part of a collection of panels designed for the Millennium, known as the Tregellas Needlework. They are unique and show the history and legends of Cornwall.
The daffodils are there, and along the edge are some of the other flowers sent to the market, Cornish violets, anemones, primroses and one that I can't identify.
Ready to travel to market.
The picture below shows a Daffodil Festival in one of our local churches.
The flowers seem to add such a glow to the stonework.
Although it is a relatively short season it seems to herald the coming of Spring, and hope.
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