Category: Pots

About planting daffodils in pots.

and: here too

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Thanks for your comment, Melissa. Yes, there are over 3000 pots out there and some 200 more (mostly tazettas) to be planted on Saturday. This year the daffodil season should last well into May. In other years,…

Waiting for Spring

Many of the pots show growth, and a few show buds emerging from the ground. But with the weather forecast, it is just possible that most of them will bloom about at the right time for Murphys. For scale, those…

first show in 2010

Hello Daffnet, happy 2010 for all of you,   In Lisse we have the first show of the year. The “midwinterflora” at CNB celebrates their 25th anniversary, Many professional growers show their tulips, hippeastrums, hyacinths, many miscelaneous bulbs and daffodils. We had…

blooming in Ohio

Friends, Several little flowers are blooming in Ohio today.  The photo is of N. bulbocodium subsp. bulbocodium var. nivalis.  I have no idea why it’s blooming so early, as it’s not usually a winter blooming one.  I suppose our warmer…

viridiflorus hybrid

I was surprised this afternoon to spot a daffodil that wasn’t one of the typical autumn blooming daffodils. It is John Hunter’s JAH 23/88 4W-W ((Rosewynne x Gay Challenger) x N. viridiflorus). It has a rather long neck and would…

Spring Bulbs emerging in the fall

Last year I planted a number of new daffodil acquisitions in a new location. The location is very loose soil and used to have a woodpile over it, so there is much decomposed wood matter in the soil. I have…