Lovely Lads. Narcissus 'Mon chéri', Amsterdam Noord, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yep... I hurried but just missed my train. Enough to do, though, near Amsterdam's central station. I took the ferry across 't IJ to Noord, an up and coming suburb. Behind the supermodern EYE Filmmuseum there are pretty parks now laid out with flowering Daffodils. Here's a 'Mon chéri' hybrid, first registered in 1983 by Piet Q.M. Pennings. The Pennings bulb growers go back to 1960 when the family decided to give up dairy farming and go into horticulture. Quite successfully to judge by their huge stock of various Daffodils.
By the way, that English word 'Daffodil'... I was curious as to its derivation. There's a link to the medieval Latin 'affodillus' (which goes back on the Greek 'asphodelos'). But I wondered about that 'd'; it's claimed that it derives from the Dutch article 'de'; so: 'de affodil' contracted to 'daffodil' in English. After all, the Dutch were well known for their bulb industry.
Oh! and yes: it's 'mon chéri', for a man, not 'ma chérie' for a woman. After all, Narcissus in classical legend is a young man.
Lovely Lads. Narcissus 'Mon chéri', Amsterdam Noord, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yep... I hurried but just missed my train. Enough to do, though, near Amsterdam's central station. I took the ferry across 't IJ to Noord, an up and coming suburb. Behind the supermodern EYE Filmmuseum there are pretty parks now laid out with flowering Daffodils. Here's a 'Mon chéri' hybrid, first registered in 1983 by Piet Q.M. Pennings. The Pennings bulb growers go back to 1960 when the family decided to give up dairy farming and go into horticulture. Quite successfully to judge by their huge stock of various Daffodils.
By the way, that English word 'Daffodil'... I was curious as to its derivation. There's a link to the medieval Latin 'affodillus' (which goes back on the Greek 'asphodelos'). But I wondered about that 'd'; it's claimed that it derives from the Dutch article 'de'; so: 'de affodil' contracted to 'daffodil' in English. After all, the Dutch were well known for their bulb industry.
Oh! and yes: it's 'mon chéri', for a man, not 'ma chérie' for a woman. After all, Narcissus in classical legend is a young man.