Blooming

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First daffodils have blossomed. Good ol’ Rijnveld’s Early Sensation I expected, but the ones by the Juneberry surprised me.

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

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Karen's Garden Tips April 8, 2009, 4:10 am

Rijnveld’s Early Sensation are a great daffodil. I interplant them with Carlton so have a show of yellow dafs for almost two months.

Karen’s Garden Tips’s last blog post..Plant Profile: Daffodil ‘Thalia’ (Narcissus triandrus ‘Thalia’)

Gwendolyn April 7, 2009, 10:24 am

I’m weeks away from Daffodils, but I am happy for the crocuses and snowdrops!

Gwendolyn’s last blog post..Signs of Spring– even in the snow

garden irrigation April 7, 2009, 8:47 am

I spent the weekend in the western lakes and I could not believe the amount of daffs I saw, they were everywhere and seemed even more vibrant this year.

Kathy Purdy April 6, 2009, 9:38 pm

That’s what I thought. Strange, because it doesn’t seem like it’s been particularly warm.

kerri April 6, 2009, 9:18 pm

Kathy, I have a few daff blooms about to open too. I think they’re about a week earlier than last year.

kerri’s last blog post..Colorful Crocuses!