This is the second in a series of corsages/boutonnieres made of my photos of this year’s garden flowers, grown here at my Victorian Gothic black dirt farmhouse, The Blawnut House, in the Hudson Valley, in New York. I grow them, photograph them, laminate them, and turn them into pins!

This variety was abundant on the property when we bought it 8 years ago, although it took some years of not mowing the poor things and some dividing and replanting for them to bloom. These began to flower in late March and into early April this year.

The pin is a little larger than life, measuring 3.75 inches at it’s widest diameter. There is a double center that makes it slightly three-dimensional with a stainless steel lapel pin fastener. Each pin is signed, numbered, and dated. Collect them all.

Daffodils, or narcissus, are native to the Mediterranean, particularly the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, North Africa, and Western Asia. The biggest concentration of wild species is found in the Western Mediterranean. If you don’t already know the Poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth, I recommend it to you.