If I had a sunny spot, I'd put in a veggie garden, plant some raspberries and apple trees, and buy a freezer. *sigh* The world just seems crazier and crazier. Now I'm really wishing I'd bought that shell of a house on 2 acres last year. When will I learn to go with my gut feelings?
Well, I've been saying I'd post some pictures of the garden for days now, so here you go.
This batch is daffodils. I have some that just put up foliage this year, and I'm thinking of giving them a dressing of bone meal, but I also had some beautiful clumps, and I'm starting to learn my categories in daffodil-land. Here goes (definitions taken from American Daffodil Society:
These are trumpets (cup as long or longer than the petals):
These are large cups (cup more than one-third but less than the length of the petals)
These are small cups (cup not more than one third the length of the petals):
Cyclamineaous (cup straight and narrow, petals "significantly reflexed" or, if you prefer, a "wind-swept" look):
Tazettas (3 to 20 flowers per stem, very short cup, rounded petals, usually scented):
Triandus (drooping head, petals often reflexed--or as another site put it, star-like):
This is a poeticus--a very old variety, scented, always with white petals and the small red-rimmed eye. Also I think called "gooseneck" because of the shape of the stem. They're supposed to be among the last to bloom, but mine always bloom with all the others.
Doubles. I'm not wildly fond of doubles, but these came in a mix. They almost look like roses, don't they?
I don't seem to have anything I can positively identify as jonquilla ("Usually several flower heads to a stem, flowers usually fragrant, stem is round in cross-section and foliage is often rush like "), and I don't have any split cups or "butterfly" daffodils.
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When he was about 4, Eli's favorite show to watch was an episode of Victory Garden where one of the hosts visited a daffodil farm. I had it on tape, and we watched it over and over.
Maybe I'll show him your pictures for some nostalgia!
You'd be surprised how much you can get out of a small garden, particularly if you use raised beds. Our veg garden in California was the size of our dining room and we got a winter's worth of tomatoes out of it.
The basic problem is lack of sun. On this one little piece of property, I have two enormous tulip trees, two nasty norway maples, a blue spruce, a green ash, an unidentified pine, and way too much nasty invasive bush honeysuckle. NOT my fault, btw; the place came with them. The two small trees on the west side of the house may change the sun pattern a bit, but I don't believe it's going to open up the canopy enough to provide any particular spot with 6-8 hours of direct sun.
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