Yes, I know the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day was yesterday the day before yesterday. I didn’t get finished in time. So just pretend this is May 15th, okay? (As always, hover your mouse over any thumbnail for a caption, and click on any photo for a larger image.)
Narcissus
Let’s start off with the narcissus. The early […]
Narcissus Entries
May Blooms: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
May 17th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 10 Comments
Categories: Native/Invasive · Narcissus
Keywords: acquisitions · anemone · bloom dates · bloom records · caltha · daffodils · ell · gaywings · marsh marigold · May · meadow rue · Mertensia · narcissus · native plants · polygala · secret garden · thalictrum · trilliums · violets · Virginia bluebells · wood anemone
Daffodils are my favorite flowers
March 29th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 17 Comments
Time to put my money where my heart is
When I was in college, I lived in a third-floor walkup with two fellow students. Whenever anyone shut the front door to the building, all the tenants felt the resulting vibrations. And we subconsciously monitored the sound of footsteps on the stairs, calculating in the back of […]
Categories: Plant info · Narcissus
Keywords: daffodils · narcissus
Heirloom Narcissus
May 24th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 10 Comments
First I’d better define my terms. By narcissus, I mean plants in the genus Narcissus, which many know as daffodils or jonquils. By heirloom, I mean that I inherited them. There is probably an official definition of “heirloom” as relates to Narcissus, but I don’t know what it is. I have seen some of my […]
Categories: Plant info · What's up/blooming · Narcissus










