Easter Sunday and the traditional Easter egg hunt were part of the pleasures of my garden, this 4th week of April, with my grand-kids and their proud father, and son-in-law, looks on with his camera in the ready. The grass has already turned green, and I'm declaring spring officially here in my garden.
Other pleasures in my garden at this time of year are the dogwoods. We were pleasantly surprised to find that our new home was surrounded by flowering trees in our borders with the state park, that had grown there naturally.
As far as the daffodils are concerned, this 4th week is down to the late-late varieties, and dead-heading the remainder. Anything that is still in bloom, is nothing more than the fading blooms from earlier varieties.
There are many jonquils that are late flowers, and they come in yellow, yellow and white known as bi-color, white, and yellow and orange. Usually jonquils have two or more florets on a stem, but anyone that grows the jonquil 'Sweetness' an all yellow, knows that it has one head most of the time.
One of the late-late daffodils in my garden is a jonquil named 'Stratosphere' pictured here. This is the season for the jonquils, and yes, before it's asked, a jonquil is a daffodil! (LOL) It is officially color coded Yellow petals with an orange cup. Some years the orange is more orange then usual, as it look more a yellow cup to the eye. But orange it is.
The poets, or division 9 of daffodil, are some of the oldest daffodils known to civilization. Their petals are whiter than white, with a very small rounded cup that usually has a small green eye, with yellow along the cup and a bright red rim. Beautiful. This poet show here is named 'Vers Libre'.
For our weekly show report, and the article to get us past our 1st Annual Fox Run Daffodil Show, held here on suite101.com, we went west. The daffodil show that we attended this week was in Wadsworth, OH, just south of Cleveland. The daffodils that we show each week are the daffodils blooming in our garden that week.
We brought this collection of five white daffodils that won 1st place for it's class. The two lower daffodils are in front and are Easter Moon and Stainless. The three in back were from left, Gull, Angel, and Colonial White.
It was a show that was made up of late division 3 short cupped daffodils, divisions 7 jonquils, and division 9, the poets. We tried to win the Elise Havens award which consists of 12 stems of divison 5 through division 11.
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