Daffodils will soon be adorning gardens and open spaces throughout Britain but they originated in the Iberian peninsula and north Africa and. grown for medicinal use.   by the 1600s they began to be grown for aesthetic purposes and became popular in the 1800s with the creation of new garden daffodil forms and colours.  Now there are over 31,000 known varieties and the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is running a daffodil count and want people to record varieties especially rare pink, double white and “bonfire yellow” daffodils in order to save threatened varieties from extinction.   
The UK grows 90% of the world’s cut flower daffodils of which these are typical from a supermarket