Thanks to Dan Bellinger and all for a fine “Midwest” Regional meeting at Columbus, actually Upper Arlington, yesterday (Saturday). I use quotes since it was a bit more of an East Central gathering, including a fine showing of folks from Kentucky.
Today was a planting day. Here’s part of my newest field. The goldenrod-covered area was bush hogged this Spring and I’m mowing down the new growth as I put bulbs in. The property has four types of soil on it, and this is my first time planting daffodils in the most loamy of them. The digging is easier but I’m not sure how the daffodils will react. This takes me to over ten acres of daff fields of the 53 total acres.
The vivid reds are dogwoods. The mature woods behind is largely beech, sugar maple and oak. There’s a couple purple, and white asters in the foreground; widely in bloom elsewhere around the farm.
In contrast, here’s a shot taken looking just to the right (South) and onto the neighbor’s property. That featureless hill is a part of their soybean fields.
Regards,
Drew Mc Farland
Granville, Ohio
Very pretty, and would you believe I did a natural dyeing
demonstration at the Kansas City Renaisance Festival yesterday using
Goldenrod harvested on the festival grounds? I could have used your
fields, though as for some reason, Kansas seems to have a bit of a
goldenrod shortage this year. Anyway, here’s to some wonderful
daffodils next spring on your property!
Chris