Daffodils in bloom

It has been fabulous to see the children's  hard work paying off.  Our playground has been a blaze of colour with  an array of beautiful daffodils and pansies, planted during the autumn term by our avid gardeners at Westwood. Sadly the daffodils are dying off now, perhaps we will plant some tulips and blue bells too this year so next year we will have more colour to look forward to.

Did you know...the most famous poem in the English language 'Daffodils'  was composed in 1804, two years after William Wordsworth saw the flowers while walking by Ullswater on a stormy day with Dorothy, his sister.

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of dancing Daffodils;
Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: --
A poet could not but be gay
In such a laughing company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.