My friend Louise gave me a bucket of daffodil bulbs last fall. She was digging up and dividing some large clumps (as I need to do myself this coming fall) and so I stuck in bulbs here, there, and yonder in our little entry garden.
Of course you can't tell by looking at the dormant bulbs, but I'd more or less expected they'd be the standard single yellow daffodil. Which is lovely.
But what a delightful surprise to find an fancy assortment! White and pink and yellow and coral! Where'd that come from? I found myself thinking as bloom after bloom opened in our entryway.
Josie is a fan of the yellows . . .
. . . they're fragrant and I have so many of them that I'll always let her pick some.
And deer don't eat daffodils.
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I see Josie goes for the classic. They’re all beautiful. Our assorted daffodils are blooming in various places right now, and I’m thinking I should buy some more bukbs this fall.
I've seen some orangish centers...but that double one is crazy beautiful!
Beautiful. Every spring I tell myself I need to plant daffodils. And every fall I forget. Maybe this year...
Do the deer eat dahlias? Deana the queena
I've never grown dahlias -- so I don't know.
"Josie with Daffodil" belongs in a frame on a bookshelf...
Just politely asked a doe and her babe to kindly leave my just budding hydrangea alone a few days ago. Have them safely behind some tomato towers for now. At 4500 feet, I din't see blooms this early last year, so I'll have to keep an eagle eye out for our huge population of deer. They're protected in the resort, so we have dozens born each spring. Lovely to look at, but a true pest in the garden. A duel-edged sword at best.
That's a nice bit of variety. I've only ever grown the yellows.
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