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garden bloggers' bloom day, Narcissus 'Fellows Favorite', Narcissus 'Jetfire', Narcissus 'Tete a Tete', Narcissus 'Fortissimo', Narcissus 'Kedron', Six on Saturday
Here I am, yet again a day late! I sat down to write yesterday afternoon, and the hard drive crashed. Thankfully, my husband is brilliant and solved the problem late last night.
What I have a lot of this week, and I know I’m not alone, are daffodils! On Wednesday, I showed you my earliest, a row of King Alfred type Trumpet narcissi, along the top of our backyard hill. I started with thirty bulbs up there in 2013 and have added ten or twenty nearly every fall since. A few years ago, I added a small patch of ‘Fellows Favorite’, a Large-Cupped narcissus which opens a few days later and is slightly lighter in color than its royal counterparts. I may choose to add more of those to the mix this fall.
Down the hill, in the rock garden, another Large-Cupped daffodil, ‘Fortissimo’, is starting to open. It seems less bold and brassy this year than usual, perhaps more of a mezzo-forte? It’s early in its bloom cycle yet, though, so the colors may grow bolder and its trumpet more orange over the next few days. There are also fewer of them than there used to be–maybe it’s time to do some lifting and separating of these ten-year-old, never-been-moved bulbs?
There’s a small cluster of ‘Tete a Tete’ daffs in a small bed that formerly housed a declining rhododendron. This is the first time I’ve grown these outdoors, as opposed to forcing them indoors in February. These are tiny little delights in the Cyclamineus class, no more than six inches high with flowers less than two inches across. My records for last fall made no mention of ‘Tete a Tete’, so I was surprised to see them. (Taking a note now to take better notes!)
Another Cyclamineus daffodil is blooming in the Terrace Garden. This is Narcissus ‘Jetfire’, blooming here for its seventh year. It may also be the seventh consecutive year I’ve thought, “I really need to move these to a place where they won’t be so hidden behind the wall!” This year I’m adding, “But I know I won’t do it.” But I really should.
The daffodils in the Lasagna Bed are slowly opening. I believe this is ‘Kedron’, though it seems a little early for the Jonquillas. We did, however, have two days this week with temperatures in the low 90s, so all bets are off in terms of what’s going to bloom when!
So there are my six for the week, all narcissi. Since it’s also Bloom Day, I’m going to take some liberty and show you just a few more pictures of some other things blooming around my yard today.
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Thanks for stopping by to see what’s blooming in my garden this week. Thank you to Jim at Garden Ruminations for hosting the weekly Six on Saturday meme, and to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting the monthly Bloom Day!
Gee, I noticed that these were still blooming in the Pacific Northwest and as far south as southeastern Oregon. Ours were very late this year after that extra wintry winter, but they were not ‘this’ late. It would be nice about now, after the rain that knocks them down.
This Northeast spring is definitely…different? Everything just came out at once, although it only got to 87 at my house. You have a lot of daffodils! There are so many types, I wish I had as much land as you have so I could get more. My late ones haven’t started to bloom yet, and now we are cooling down so maybe they will wait their turn. Please, spring, slow down! Alana ramblinwitham
These are mostly the early daffs. In “normal” years (whatever that means!), I have daffodils through mid to late May. It got to 92 here on Friday, and was humid. TOO EARLY for that nonsense! Yes, I’d like spring to be spring and not jump straight to summer!
I wouldn’t even have noticed your photoshopped finger had you not pointed it out! It’s like the Where’s Waldo of the garden blogger world. Daffodils are one of my favorite spring bulbs. I’ve also got bulbs to move that I will probably forget to do.
Thanks for visiting, Curmudgeon! You’re the only one so far who has mentioned my finger–points to you for attention to detail!