Harbingers of Spring.
This past weekend I came to a conclusion that we are finally, after two extremely cold late springs in Northeast NC, that we are having a “normal” spring. The word Normal has many meanings to a lot of different people. To me, it means the weather is puzzling as normal. We could still have another bout of cold weather.
However, I have many of my N. Bulbocodiums in bloom, beautiful white ones mostly, and a few pale yellow. Most of my darker yellow are later. I also have some early N. cyclamineus miniature crosses, a miniature ‘Adorable Lass’, ‘Oakwood Tyke’ and ‘Zip’ in bloom, a number of the Tenby daffodil N. obvalarious (spelling), and a nice clump of ‘Little Beauty’. There was also a nice clump of N. tazetta var tazetta, and N. Cypri that has bloomed. I have nice large clumps of Fyno 10W-W and N. cantabricus 13W-W that has already bloomed and swiveled.
Camera in Maryland, daffodils in NC.
My point is that these were not blooming last year until about the time of our NE NC Daffodil Show in the third week of March. Thus the “normal” daffodil weather. . . unpredictable.
Most of my standard daffodils are showing at about 2 or 3 inches above the mulch. So everything received a top dressing of 5-12-24 fertilizer. It’s supposed to rain today, Monday, and that should activate the fertilizer. With a sandy beach type soil, without the fertilizer, by yard will not even grow decent grass.
I’d love to see Ian in his shorts, but alas, not this year.
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Clay Higgins