Let 'Em Rip

This is daffodil 'Rip Van Winkle' I purchased many many years ago (about 20 years), being a little different than your average ho-hum yellow 'King Alfred'. I was craving something different and unique. Well, as with many a plant from my ealier gardening years, they died, disappeared, or packed it in and left town.

Three years ago, this daffodil popped up and bloomed. I was startled, and though some of the different daffodil species in the garden participated in a little hany-panky and produced this offspring. I had never seen this flower before.

The way-back machine in my brain kicked in and memory of the Rip Van Winkles bubbled up. Ah, yes. I looked at other photos of this variety and see that my version is not as hairy-looking and beardly as they are. The flower resembles the beard from someone who may have been asleep for many years. How appropriate - these have been sleeping in my garden for years and just now awakened.