Month: May 2009

Fw: Kath Dryden

MRS.doc Daffnet members,   I am pleased to do as Malcolm Bradbury requests and I share in the sadness at the passing of Kath Dryden who was a revered and respected member of the ‘Alpine’ community and a real enthusiast…

Mass planting of Daffodils in Wellington New Zealand

Volunteers to plant daffodils in Central Park.docx  Hello Daffnetters Thankyou for all the lovely photos of daffodil drifts. I thought you might like to know that we are going to have Central Park, an old park noted for it’s established deciduous…

Shall we gather at the River

Church bells were ringing down the street just now and you can almost hear this group singing the chorus line to this hymn. Appears to be a beautiful river of white daffodils there at John Reed’s that everyone has flocked…

yard art

This could have been painted like a jonquil or tazetta. This Wisconsin farmer had up incredible yard art all made from pieces of farm machinery. Some appeared to weigh hundreds of not thousands of pounds…. OK I’ll quit bombarding you…

Tea cups and mill stones

I really liked the log bench with the daffodils growing near it. Again somewhere in south west Wisconsin. Not really sure why the rocks are sitting on top of the bench. This entire farm appeared to be sitting on solid…

Public park daffodils

A shot somewhere in Door County Wisconsin. Green Bay is in the background. Again there were hundreds of daffodil plantings at houses, businesses and near barns and along road sides. 99% of the daffodils were only about 5 different varieties…