Bill,
Altho I expect your comment was made with tongue firmly in cheek; you might be stirring the pot a little too vigorously.
This wonderful country of ours is way too “sue happy”.
I imagine some who have not visited here in the US or even some in the US who have not traveled much cannot imagine the diversity of climates here.
While I am sitting in Florida with 80 degree temps; there are some in Minnesota freezing with temps below zero. Then there are the high mountains and the desert areas; and those areas barely above sea level and on and on. Very difficult to have daffodils or any other plant grown in like conditions here. Here in Florida there are hedges of plants that I grow as a house plant in Ohio; others considered weeds that we purchase for our gardens in the north. This is indeed a strange wonderful land in which we live.
Phyllis
Amen to Phyllis. And, I don’t recall many proposals to handicap show entries, at the national show say, based on where that pretty bloom came to maturity. That’s just part of the landscape of this hobby and it makes the shows and the competition more interesting, if not always more fair.
from Zone 8, where it’s going up to 63 degrees:
“What’s a window well/”
(for that matter, what’s a basement? opposite of an attic, I suppose, and that I can
tell you all about)
We are, indeed, a very diverse country with all sorts of situations, and thanfully,
daffodils that can be grown everywhere.
Phyllis, what a perceptive and articulate description of our country!
Ray Rogers, why aren’t you popping in here and suggesting to all these folks
who want/need to grow daffodils in pots that it’s a pity the Container classes
still aren’t more widely and fully filled?
Of course daffodils grown in pots OUTDOORS all their cycle of growth are
very eligible. How else could those of us in warmer climates and clay soil suitable
only for making pottery ever produce good blooms?
It’s these questions with no easy answers that enliven DaffNet out of season, if
indeed there is anything as “out of daffodil season” any more.
Loyce McKenzie,
who used to be on the line between Zone 7 and Zone 8, but they re-did the
map
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