What a difference a week, or even a day makes. Last week's pictures of my daffodil beds didn't show much, and I had hoped that this week, I'd be able to show you a vast number of daffodils in bloom.
I got up this Sunday morning 03-09-00, and was greated with an inch or so snow on the ground from a snow storm that covered the entire northeastern United States. We are lucky here, just northwest of Washington, DC., we had the lightest snow. However, the daffodils didn't think they were so lucky. I had wanted to take a picture yesterday, Saturday when we returned from the Richmond, VA, daffodil show, as there was a good coverage of bloom in the garden, however, when we returned home it was to meet fierce winds, and driving rain. We simply escaped into the house. That was late yesterday afternoon, this morning, all the daffodils that had been in bloom are now on the ground. There was nothing to photograph in the lower beds. Some may straighten out, but I think they are mostly gone.
This picture of 'Brackenhurst' a 2Y-O is the about the only daffodil still in bloom in the upper beds, and I had to scrape the snow off it before I took the picture.
I'd had gone from trumpets and a few division 6 cyclamineus daffodils to major blooming period of my division 2 large cupped daffodils, the remainder of my trumpets, and the small cupped division 3 are beginning to put in an appearance. Along with the multiples of large cupped and small cupped daffodils, there is the begining of the appearance of the higher divisions, such as the doubles, triandrus, jonquilla, tazetta, poeticus, split coronas, one bulbacodium, and a couple of specus narcissus in bloom.
Yes'um, it's spring, and it's snow. This is the upper beds that were also demolished by the show. You can see 'Brackenhurst', pictured above, in the left side of this picture, as it was so brave to poke up it's head.
The garden looks like a disaster area, but I'm predicting that this too shall pass and that by the middle of the week, I will have a new crop of bloom ready for whatever (shows) the next weeken brings. I'm still not to my peak bloom, but was predicting that I would be by the 14th or 15th of April.
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