Before and After

These are supermarket daffodils (variety unknown) purchased last spring after the blossoms were spent. I bought them for just a few cents, and planted them on spec. I’m pleased that they survived last week’s snow. 

Unidentified Narcissus sp., in Portsmouth, Virginia. 

Before and After

These are supermarket daffodils (variety unknown) purchased last spring after the blossoms were spent. I bought them for just a few cents, and planted them on spec. I’m pleased that they survived last week’s snow. 

Unidentified Narcissus sp., in Portsmouth, Virginia. 

Exterminating the last vestiges of winter. Daffodils brought indoors, in Portsmouth, Virginia.

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Bonus etymology: exterminate (v.), from Latin exterminatus, “to drive out, expel, drive beyond boundaries.”