It is Garden Blogger's Bloom Day again! On the 15th of each month, we gardeners with blogs share a few bloom photos from our gardens. Here in the Mid-Atlantic USA (USDA zone 7) on the DC-MD border, we had a fairly mild winter and are now having an early spring. I have a multitude of blooms, even the Lilacs are starting to bud up. With such a wealth of choices, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite daffodils in the collage above, Here is my list of everything that is in flower in my garden today: - Viola and Pansies- Alyssum- Scilla - Puschkinia - Veronica - Vinca groundcover- Hellebores - Crocus- Grape Hyacinth (Muscari) - Dutch Hyacinth- Daffodils - Primrose - Forsythia - PJM Rhododendrons - Winter Jasmine (ending) - Pieris japonica - Mahonia - Saucer Magnolia tree 'Jane'- Flowering Plum tree 'Thundercloud'
Deer-resistant, sweet smelling, tough, and long-lasting,
Daffodils (Narcissus sp.) are a wonderful spring-blooming bulb to add to your garden.
Plant them each
fall at a depth of about two-times the bulb’s size. Then forget all about them
until the foliage and flowers emerge the following spring. You can get varieties that bloom in
early-season (February), mid-season (March) and late-season (April). Be sure to
check the bulb bag labels and catalog descriptions, so you can have flowers all
throughout spring.
The only
maintenance they ever need is to dig and divide them every 10 years or so, if
they get too crowded and their flowering slows down. Shown here are some of my favorite
varieties. The ‘Tete-a-Tete’ is a dwarf daffodil that has multiple blooms on a
single stem. They are only 6-inches high and are terrific grouped on a slope or
alongside a pathway.
The ‘February Gold’
is a classic yellow daffodil that is the first to bloom in my garden. I love to
cut it and enjoy it inside. One warning, if you bring them in as a cut-flower, do
not mix them with other flowers, as they exude a toxin into the vase water that
causes the other blooms to droop.
Another favorite is
‘Ice Follies’, It is a classic bi-colored daffodil with large flower cups.
It ranks third in the Top Ten Daffodils produced
worldwide.
Including hybrids,
there are over 13,000 distinct daffodil varieties in existence. You
are sure to find a few favorites of your own.
The video was produced by Washington Gardener Magazine and edited by intern Allison O'Reilly.
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