The garden daffodil with hyacinth

On a rare visit to the far end of the garden I noticed some daffodils that I'd planted as bulbs many years ago were flowering. Sadly some beast had been trampling a few of them and their stems and flowers lay flat on the ground beside a tree stump that was growing new shoots in profusion.

I fetched some scissors and cut the afflicted stems to bring them into the house as I thought they might still look good for a few days at least. I put the three flowers that survived in a small vase on the dining room table. You can see this one does look rather weather beaten. 

When I next had my camera out this daffodil caught my eye next to the pot of three hyacinths that have recently bloomed. They came in a small pot from Lidl, and I have to say are very good value. Their smell is classically pungent and the detail of their basically blue colours is rather attractive.