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My Garden, The Last Week of March

© Clay Higgins

My new daffodil gardens during the last week of March 2000.

We moved last fall, including over 900 daffodil varieties, and in excess of 10,000 total bulbs in October, and replanted them before the ground froze. The fact is we didn't know where we were going to move until about the 17th of September. It was getting late for moving a garden, specially since those new garden beds had to be made from scratch.

This picture is our lane, taken this last week in March 2000. It leads down to our house from the street above the property. It is lined by those gosh-awful ornamental pear trees that are about as brittle as it gets. We have named this house Fox Run in the honor of both the red and the grey fox that live on either side of the house. As you can see, it's too early here for daffodils, and like the fox, the house is shy and doesn't want to be seen from the street.

This is not our lawn, but the picture is where we had to build our daffodil beds from scratch.

This is a picture of my lower daffodil beds, and how the grounds looked when we moved in during October 1999.

Based on the fact that my daffodil garden was weeds and brush until October 1999, it's not so bad. This picture shows how it looks when I started. Of course that didn't stop me from having nightmares that the daffodils would not come up and that I would not have anything to show for my efforts last fall, not to mention, nothing for the daffodil shows this spring. There has been some real changes.

This is the same picture as the one with all the green brush and trees. The picture is of how the lower daffodil beds look now that the brush and weeds have been cleared back, and you can see the ground. I tried to get the picture larger, but there is little space

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It's not so bad when you can grow this 'Casselle' 1W-Y in the lower garden. But it's really too early for my garden this last week of March 2000. It is at least two weeks late, and maybe more. When I planned this article, I had hoped to be able to show you a garden full of daffodils.

The soil in my new daffodil beds were pure red hard compacted clay, and some good size rocks. With soil improvements and deep digging, the beds were prepared. We planted a lot of naturalizing daffodils for beautification as well, however the main show daffodils were concentrated into two areas; on in a hollow below the south side of the house, and the other on a hill behind the house to the west.

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