The garden is a bit daffodil-crazy at the moment, with daffies on all sides!
Many of these are miniature ones that I collected here and there. I remember getting one pot of bulbs out of the trash in the cemetery while walking Olga, and another came in a big floral arrangement that had been purchased for a special occasion at school.
I like the miniature ones because they seem to clump together and bloom really well, though maybe that's just because of the way we planted them.
While walking around the garden taking these pictures yesterday morning, I discovered this big, sleepy bumblebee tucked into the trumpet of one of our regular-sized daffodils. It didn't seem to want to move. It was pretty chilly yesterday morning so hibernating may have been the sensible thing to do until the sun warmed things up.
It's encouraging to have both flowers and bees coming out. I have a bamboo pole wired to the trunk of the avocado to support whatever winter covering may be needed to protect it, and I'm thinking I might be able to remove that sometime soon -- but I'm still wary because in past years we've had pretty heavy snow in late February and early March. I probably need to leave it in place for another month or so in case the avocado needs to be covered again.
But we're almost done with this winter, I can feel it!
I love how cheerful a bed of daffodils can make me feel, though I don't plant any myself since they make me sneeze.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the miniature daffs too, although we do have quite a few of the big blowsy variety scattered all around the front garden. Those are later to bloom so we are currently enjoying the show of the little ones first.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the smaller daffs, I have had to cut the taller ones for the second time, the wind is bashing them. I love most spring bulbs, they don't flower all at once, giving us different colours in the coming weeks.
ReplyDeleteMe too. I can feel this miserable winter ebbing away. Too many grey skies and too much rain but rarely crazily cold. Each day is longer than the last one. I may cast off my clothes and frolic in the park.
ReplyDeleteI always remember at school we had to draw daffodils for Easter and there three dimensional shape with the trumpet was always difficult. Glad you did not quote Wordsworth.
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