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02.09.06 ::
Behind
Schedule
The
first daffodil of 2006
opened on January 30th. The photo above was taken at night and shows a
small clump of the larger jonquils now in bloom. A few other
plants look
like they are getting ready to bud, but so far the smaller of the
narcissus have only thinly scattered
stalks. We have had a huge drought with very little rain over the fall
and winter so they are late getting started.
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03.18.05 :: The Last
Days Of Winter
I have three different types of narcissus planted in the main flower bed along the driveway. The small solid yellow daffodils were planted by my grandmother. There are a lot of them and they usually begin blooming in late winter, the second week in February, around Valentines day. They are very small and grow one to a stem.
There
were a few empty spots last year with no clumps of flowers, so I
bought some
bulbs at the nursery to fill them in this year. I just grabbed some
bulbs from
the big box they had and I didn't really pay attention to
what kind I
was getting. I
accidentally mixed in, or grabbed, some "paper-white"
bulbs by mistake
(or some one
else at the nursery put them
in the wrong bulb box by accident). At any
rate I
didn't mean to plant
them and I have white scattered among the yellow
now. They have
elongated petals with tiny yellow centers and they are growing with
multiple flower heads per single stem.
I like them, but I might sort out the white bulbs later and replant them in another location so they make more of an impact when all together.
I like them, but I might sort out the white bulbs later and replant them in another location so they make more of an impact when all together.
The
new bulbs I meant to buy are the cute little two toned daffodils. These
are also small like my naturalized ones but they grow in multiples on
one stem. The centers are a dark yellow -orange, very round and each
petal has a tiny white tip. They bloom
about two or three weeks after
the others.
The
flowers started wilting and drying up about the first and second week
in March. I always
let
the stems die back completely. I don't cut them back until they
are wilted
and have yellowed...sometime in the summer.
