birth flowers · March
Daffodil
March's flower doesn't whisper spring; it announces it in brass: the daffodil — rebirth, new beginnings, and hope with a deadline (it blooms whether winter agrees or not).
Language & folklore
Named narcissus for the myth's self-admirer, yet its folk meaning ran opposite — Wales pins one on for St David's Day and prosperity; lore promises the household that spots the first daffodil a golden year. One flower, they warned, means misfortune — give bunches.
The honest paragraph
The single-daffodil superstition is folklore's pricing strategy and florists never argued. The rebirth reading needs no committee: a bulb that spends winter underground and then produces trumpets is the metaphor writing itself. March babies get the least arguable flower on the list.
The cat announces spring at 5 a.m. with comparable subtlety: "Beginnings. Best declared loudly."
Flower meanings are the language of flowers and folk tradition — inherited poetry for gifts and self-portraits, not botany's opinion and not a promise.