Wednesday, November 17, 2010

About those Daffodils-

I have been reading up on daffodils, since the miniatures I planted seem to want to bloom before Christmas.In "Gardens in Winter", Elizabeth Lawrence quotes the poet Coventry Patmore who wrote "The buried bulb does know/The signals of the year". Perhaps that is true in England. It is not true here, and it is probably my fault. I should have planted the bulbs later and planted them deeper. This fall's prolonged warmth did not help either.Now my window boxes will have to be dragged inside if we have bitter weather. Or I can leave the daffodils to their fate. I shall have to ask around to see if anyone notices established daffodils coming up. Maybe there are other confused bulbs out there-

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