April Flowers

Daffodil is the common name of the Narcissus (plant) of flowering plant

Instagram photos of my Daffodil's taken on April 04

Photos taken by Kendall Oliphant 2012

       

                                
    

"Daffodils" (1804)

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
 
Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretch'd in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
 
The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:
 
For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
 
And dances with the daffodils. 

Tulips, Daffodils,Roses and Rose of Sharon 2010

DAFFODILLS April 2010

ROSE OF SHARON July 2010

ROSES May 2010

TULIPS April 2010

My Tulips and Daffodils 2009

Sorry but this years crop of Tulips and Daffodils where a complete bust. Firstly, it was another long cold winter with nothing happening well into May. Secondly, these are the only photos of one lonely Daffodil and a couple of tulips that I managed before some idiot picked them. The Roses and Rose of Sharon are looking promising thank god, I'll post those pictures later in the Summer.

My Tulips and Daffodils

It's been one of the coldest winters on record here in Hamilton. Several records where broke in February and especially March. I've been documenting the progress of my tulips and daffodils since they first started to poke their heads up through the ground. They even managed to survive two freak early Spring snow falls. So here is a small display of my growing "Tulip and Daffodils" collection of digital photos. I plan to continue the collection right through to the end of the flowers life cycle and then continue with a series of "Roses" and "Lilac" collections through the Summer.

March 14


March 20


March 25


March 28


April 5


April 6


April 15


Well, Spring has certainly arrived in stride. With it days full of incredible sunshine and warm temperatures. Here is some more photos of my growing collection. It's starting to look as if the only way I'm going to enjoy my flowers is through the pictures, the neibourhood kids have already started to pinch them.

April 21


April 27


May 1


May 2


May 2


May 3


Lilacs


Later,
Kenaz