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

This variety is called Replete and I gifted myself a small pack of the bulbs two years ago from Eden Brothers. They have doubled since then and seem happy in the soil.

The pin is a little larger than life, measuring 4 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.