I don’t care if you live in Tallahassee or Spokane or San Bernadino–you ought to find out right away how to join the Daffodil Society of Minnesota!
Even if a May 17 show boggles the mind, you would take great pleasure in their frequent on-line news letters, beautifully designed, inspiring in tone, and full of information.
Loyce McKenzie
Loyce – that’s a lovely sentiment! Thank you. We take our mission as an educational non-profit seriously, all while trying to have fun! If someone does want to join, just go to our website: http://www.daffodilmn.org. We welcome all! Margaret Macneale
A May 17 show date is boggling our Minnesota minds as well! It’s been a crazy, crazy spring everywhere. Mostly up here it’s the winter that will not end; frost/freeze warnings last night and tonight. Finally, last week’s mostly 70’s has jump-started bud production and blooms! Cut 30+ stems Friday night before a 24 hour stretch of strong winds that whipped things around pretty severely. I’ve got 6 distinct beds and 4 micro-climates. The “early” bed has an unobstructed all day southern exposure and is at 50% +/- bloom. The next three beds, in the same zone of 8+ hours of sun is maybe at 10%. Then, a bed close to the house with 3+hours of morning sun but under the filtered, high shade of a Honey Locust has a number of buds but only 1 bloom. The last bed which is on the north side of my neighbor’s house and consequently in heavy shade in early spring until the sun’s path moves further north is not yet even showing buds!
Our very late season and rescheduled show (two big exhibitors now unavailable due to schedule conflicts) means our show will likely be smaller than usual. The invitation still stands for any of you with late blooming daffs to extend your daffodil season; come visit with your blooms in hand or cooler. It’s high spring up here – Forsythia and Star Magnolias in full bloom. A great many spring ephemeral flowers are likewise coloring gardens and lawns though yesterday’s winds stripped the petals off my Blood Root. Even with the 90 degrees forecast for this coming Tuesday, with my microclimates, my daffs overall will be about 50%+.