Author: Vicky Eicher, Virginia

Vicky Eicher joined May 29, 2009

unwanted bulbs?

I’m working on an article for the Journal on best uses for surplus/unwanted/mystery daffodil bulbs, and would appreciate hearing what others do with theirs.   Mine accompany my thank you notes to folks who support me in a local race…

unknown Spring flowering bulbs

I have an unknown bulb that has multiplied like mad!  I dug up 79 bulbs from a one foot square area  [910 cm?], of which 32 are fingernail size!!  And some have 5 or 6 necks! They look like daffodil…

Lifting bulbs

I’m in Zone 7a, Central Virginia.  We’ve had crazy, wet weather, but it’s mostly been hot and humid. This month I’ve lifted EVERYTHING from a 15 year old daffodil bed in order to rototil it and enrich the soil.  Since it is the…

label makers

I’ve spent years re-doing the fading and disappearing information on my metal daffodil ID stakes.  Sharpies & paint pens have not survived sun, rain, etc. Last Fall, I purchased & used a Brother P-touch PT-200 label maker, so have no…

Toto and Daffodils

George, Theresa White, a friend in Charlottesville VA, entered this photo in this year’s Washington Daffodil Society Show. Could Toto look like this? Should you be able to use it in your garden club show, please let me know and…

bulb increase

Pacific Rim, 2 y-yyr, increased a lot for me. Approximately five years after planting one bulb, we had 24 small ones! Now I lift and divide more frequently. Vicky Eicher Charlottesville VA