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The first wild Daffodil to bloom in the UK, as measured by a car park in Somerset, was 11th February 2024.
This is it:
Wild Daffodils start flowering when the soil temperatures reach around 10C, usually in February or March. In a warm winter like the one we’ve mostly had this year, we are seeing buds nearly ready to open at the start of February. In a cold year like those we endured at the end of the twenty-teens, they were opening over a month later and really flowering in April.
The earliest flowering cultivars (cultivated varieties) of Daffodil reliably flower earlier, even in January sometimes.
This verge was planted a few years ago: transforming a boring strip of grass between the side of an office and a backstreet pavement into a yearly display of cheerful yellow…right?
On the 3rd of February, this is one of two visible flower buds:
And pop goes the daffadowndilly: on the 11th of February 2024, we have daffodils in car parks across* the UK! These beauties are so yellow that my poor old camera can’t take it:
Wild daffodils can be planted in the green, which means when they are in growth in Spring, not dry in Autumn.
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