daffodils in snow -- spring 2010

An adventure in high mountain gardening ! I planted daffodils because they deer resistant. I was excited to see the flower heads making it after being under about eight feet of snow. A late spring snow almost buried them again but they survived. I wonder what anti-freeze chemicals are in the daffodils that make them survive a cold winter. Interesting. Provocative.

daffodils do not leave you

dizzy with fragrance

or bloodied by thorns -

just muted watercolors

of one indelible spring

(c) z m evensen

29 march 1998