Because they are daffodils - narcissus. They grow from bulbs, which divide portions of themselves out to create new ones, so they will grow in clumps - not ramble in a more "organized" fashion like a ground cover plant might.
Gardeners who are serious about them mark their position with stakes in the spring so that when the foliage is spent and "moving" time comes in the fall, they know where they are and can put them into more orderly placement.
Also, squirrels dig them up like idiots, realize they're not a yummy treat, and put them back...just not necessarily in the same hole.
They're sometimes thought of as a grave flower, but I think they're too pretty for burials.
Their name comes because of their nodding form, from the Greek myth of Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and wasted away staring at it.
Gardeners who are serious about them mark their position with stakes in the spring so that when the foliage is spent and "moving" time comes in the fall, they know where they are and can put them into more orderly placement.
Also, squirrels dig them up like idiots, realize they're not a yummy treat, and put them back...just not necessarily in the same hole.
They're sometimes thought of as a grave flower, but I think they're too pretty for burials.
Their name comes because of their nodding form, from the Greek myth of Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and wasted away staring at it.