A few miniatures are open, a few few others in bud. Hoping they do better than last year when all I got was leaves!
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Only just discovered this thread. My single, solitary bloom of 'King Alfred' is open now, but has only been open for about three days,. so it certainly wasn't when this thread started, on the 15th. My Narcissus cyclamineus 'Tete a tete' were, but they were late too - they're supposed to be appearing by late February, according to the bulb packet (I only planted them last autumn).
The 'King Alfred' daff is one of a number which have been in the front garden for decades - I planted the bulbs back in the 80s, but most of them have stopped flowering, and just send up leaves, which, according to all the books, is probably because the clumps of bulbs have become congested, so in the summer, when the leaves have died back, I'll dig up all the clumps, separate the bulbs, and re-plant them, because I like King Alfred a lot - it's your prototypical daff, with a long, deep yellow trumpet, backed by six slightly paler yellow petals. There are showier daffs, but King A. is my favourite. Unlike Pumpy (see opening post), I love daffs and narcissi, which are the quintessential mid-spring flower. It's tulips I'm not all that keen on.
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Looks like we'll have a wonderful show here for Easter!!
Yes- some of them do need dead heading ( tete a tete just starting to die back now)
I always have a bunch of daffs/yellow flowers on the Easter Sunday table - and I recall one Eeaster many years ago having to pick dandelion flowers as all the daffs and forsythia had been and gone!!!"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
Location....Normandy France
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Something keeps eating the petals of our standards. The double headed mini ones are just about to flower now.
Tulips are putting on plenty of growth.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012
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As I took the dogs out this morning all the daffs in the park were open and blowing in the wind. I sheltered under a cherry tree full of pink blossom (?) from the rain and the scent was tantalising
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