This is the third 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 of New York. I grow the flowers, photograph them, laminate them, and turn them into pins!

This rare creature precedes us at the house and thus far there are only two bulbs that produce a bloom, each in disparate places and each a week apart in April.

The pin is larger than life, measuring 3 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.