Daffodils!, originally uploaded by sam2cents.

Photographer sam2cents tells us about this January 22, 2010 image: The daffodils were planted deliberately a few years ago, but I think they’re the standard Narcissus. They look as ordinary as they come when they flower.

The image was taken in the back garden of the family home, in Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, on the coastal plain on the east of Ireland, south of Dublin, running along the Irish Sea. They are located beneath a small, bushy hazel tree. They must have burst through a few days ago, but I can’t say with any certainty when.

Note from the Editor: Sam has created a website to showcase and celebrate Wicklow, “The Garden of Ireland”.  He maintains gardenofireland.com as a resource for travelers.

Daffodils!, originally uploaded by tempichanges.

Photographer tempichanges tells us about this February 17, 2009 photo: [Photo was] taken on the jogging trail past the student housing at National University of Ireland, Galway. It was quite remarkable to see this little glen of daffodils, amongst all the trees that had yet to bud.

Daffodils!, originally uploaded by tempichanges.

Photographer tempichanges tell us about this February 8, 2009 photo: I took this photo at Blarney Castle in Blarney, Ireland. They were the first I had seen pop up here in Ireland, but since I’ve taken a few photos here around Galway of the blooms that are coming out. It was quite a beautiful morning, if I can recall correctly, the sun had just come out after a good long rain, so the yellow of the blooms was even more vibrant.

New daffodils, originally uploaded by Boocal.

The photographer Boocal sends us this information on his January 26, 2009 photo: New daffodils growing along the Loughkip river near Moycullen in County Galway, Ireland.

Springtime is coming!, originally uploaded by Salmon Leap.

Photographer Salmon Leap tells us about this January 31, 2009 photo: Photo was taken at the entrance to a riverside walkway at the River Liffey, near Lucan, Co Dublin, Ireland.

We love the on-line name “Salmon Leap”. We have learned that “Salmon Leap” is the English translation of the Irish for Salmon Leap’s home town Leixlip.

~Spring is peeking through~, originally uploaded by am or.

Photographer am or writes to us about this January 28, 2009  image: It was taken in the grounds of the University, in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland.

Signs of Spring, originally uploaded by Snow_girl.

The photographer Snow_girl provides details about these signs of spring: It was taken in my lunch break on the 27th of January and I think these are the regular yellow daffodils that you see all over the British Isles.

The daffodils are outside my office near Gorey town, County Wexford, Ireland. County Wexford is known as the sunny South East and has the nicest weather in the country (though I suppose parts of Co. Kerry on the West coast has the full brunt of the gulf stream and so it’s very warm and mild, but it’s also very windy).

My office is currently a newly built house at the end of a long gravel laneway and daffodils grow all along the sides of the track. I’ll have to send you a picture once they all come out cause it’s lovely and it makes a lovely start to my work day!

I hope you do a Welsh special on St. Davids day (March 1st). It’s essentially Wales’s national day and everyone wears daffodils on their lapels since Wales’s national flower is the Daffodil!

Take a look at Snow_girl’s blog 76 Degrees South about a place lovely except for its absence of daffodils.

First sign of spring, originally uploaded by piasosua.

We wrote to the photographer piasosua to inquire about this beautiful image taken on January 28, 2009: The photo was taken in Ireland, in a very quiet rural place in the midlands, after a night of severe frost. These daffodils are part of a long row of them which runs along the whole front of an old house. They are all of them yellow.