Fall Planting Time

This picture shows the strips in the new beds that I made this fall for the miniatures. The strip is about 24 inches wide by about 30 foot long on both sides of the walkway to the arbor. Behind the strip is a mixture of daylillies, siberian irises, and peonies, as well as a few flowering bushes.

My miniature bed will contain this list of miniature daffodils when it all gets planted.

• Baby Moon 7y-y
• Baby Star 7y-y
• Bebop 7y-y
• Bobbysoxer 7y-yyo
• Clare 7y-y
• Honey Guide 5y-y
• Little Gem 1y-y
• Kenellis 10w-y
• Little Spell 1y-y
• Little Rusky 7y-gyw
• Little Spell 1y-y
• Little Gem 1y-y
• Minnow 8y-y
• Mite 6y-y
• N. rupicola 13y-y
• N. tenuior 13y-y
• Pencrebar 5y-y
• Rikki 7w-y
• Saberwing 5w-gww
• Segovia 2w-y
• Sun Disc 7y-y
• Sunny Maiden
• Toto 12w-w
• Woodstar 5y-yww
• W.P. Milner 1w-y
• Yellow Xit 2w-y

That's a lot of bright and cheer in the early spring sun.

Fall Offerings

I've made the rounds to the local Home Depot, Wal Mart, and Lowes to see what they are offering this year. There seems to be the normal over abundance of Tete-a-Tete. If you don't have it, give it a try. It's a nice little miniature division 12 daffodil that produces two or three blooms per stem. Minnow is another miniature that seems to be well in supply. It's a bright and cheerful division 8 miniature. There wasn't much else in the way of miniatures.

On the side of the standard daffodils, Solome seems to be in over abundance. It's a nice pink daffodil, give it a try also, if you don't have it. Mount Hood, an old favorite all white daffoidl, was in abundance, along with a division three called Flower Record, a white daffodil with an orange cup. I've seen this one in flower shows in Gloucester, Virginia and in Morristown, New Jersey. It produces a nice garden flower. Another daffodil that is big this year is Barrett Browning, another division three daffodil, white with orange in the cup. This one makes a great garden flower, and occasionally a good show flower.

It looks like there are some nice bulbs out there, get them and plant daffodils now, for next spring's enjoyment.

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