It occurred to me last week that I haven’t written about planting daffodils since 2023. Believe it or not, there are Middle Peninsula residents who have never joined the fall daffodil-planting frenzy. While some of us are frantically ordering, sorting, and labeling the bulbs like they are precious 24-karat orbs, everyone else is saying, “What’s the big deal?” Well, the big deal is, we live in Gloucester (and Mathews—I won’t forget you), where there is a long and prestigious history of growing and showing daffodils. Planting bulbs is easy and the springtime rewards are great. Narcissus is the formal name for all species of daffodils. These lovely, mostly spring-blooming perennial bulbs are native to Southern Europe and North Africa, but today are planted in gardens around the globe. According to the American Daffodil Society website, between 40 to 200 species, subspecies, and varieties exist, assigned to 13 official divisions, so perfect daffodils exist for every gardener’s taste. Selec...