I look forward to their arrival every spring. They appear weeks earlier than any of my other daffodils.

Those tiny golden twins. Like little suns on stems.

These are the bulbs I share more than any other, ‘Tete-a-tete’ miniature narcissus.

They were given to me by my mother in a pot many years ago. My children were small. My garden was new and neglected.

Yesterday, I told Mama about her Tete-a-tetes blooming, like little baskets of gold, all over my yard, her yard and my sister’s yard. She smiled.

If I were to choose only one daffodil, which would be difficult,

it would be these early, tiny twins.

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I am a fan of variations on a theme.

I also like unusual daffodils.

Here are some of the many varieties blooming right now in my gardens.

They aren’t just yellow.

They aren’t  all mellow.

Some have trumpets. (Like Dizzy Gillespie)

I must mention that the cups are called coronas. (These are not contagious.)

They have divisions named for their cup type or lack of one or petal curvature or blooms per stem… (Look Knight, there’s twee!)

A daffodil by another name, is a Narcissus.

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