That term was a good one to describe me back several years ago when I wanted to do something about the unfriendly grey-brown tone of the lotty when we would begin with our earliest spring work. I mean to say, that the uncomfortable work was made even less enjoyable by the lack of visual encouragement and stimulative motivation. What to do then. My daffy answer to that challenge was simply to plant daffs...lots of ‘em. I located a bulb seller out in the countryside that would sell excess bulbs or seconds for very attractive prices, after his contractual orders had been filled. Now then mates it has taken several years, but the clumps are now worthy of presentation, and actually I will need to think about halving the clumps in a couple more years...expanding the visual impact even more. Here are a number of my specimens in no particular order and sadly without names: I hope that you enjoyed seeing these colourful garden inhabitants. They are sort of like friends to me now after all these years. So then, you can see that one can be daft but in a good way, what!
Lovely Sjoerd, some unusual ones amongst those...I had a Rose once that had all frills, it was right in the path entrance on the edge of a flower bed had no choice but to move it... and it died.. added a few more bulbs to the garden late Autumn and now getting the pleasure from them....
Glad you liked the daffs, DW— I can easily imagine how much you like your bulbs. Ta Eileen, I am so pleased that you liked the flowers. Yes, those are so lovely, aren’t they, Jerry. Mart, thank you. How come you don’t have any daffs there? Do they have trouble with your soil, or perhaps the heat?
Beautiful Sjoerd! What a great idea to plant them about your lottie. I might just borrow your idea and do the same about our Community Garden. There are multiple places where I can plant them for all to enjoy but which would also be safe from the girls with the lawn mower.
Ahh, cheers Cayu ...I am so glad that you like them. I am delighted that you liked the blooms. If you decide to plant-up your allotment gardens, do it in September/October.
Yes I like most plants actually, except not keen on cacti or indoor plants either...At our Bexhill home in the U Kthe soil was either rock hard when dry or mucky with the wet weather..very heavy clay and bulbs would rot, along with a few of my special shrubs. One was a huge Cameila that was down the bottom slope of the front Garden..Could be like a river when it rained up untill I dug trenches in the Farmland next door and it became their stream not my floodland. any more.. So here I intend to get loads more bulbs in the coming months...
Lovely @Sjoerd they don't need names. They don't grow well in our soil, they would flower the first year and wouldn't come up again, so i put them in pots but tulips grow very well in the soil.
Thank you, DW— good luck on getting those bulbs in the ground in the fall. Loggy— that is a really good way to grow them when your soil is not working for them where you live. I’ ll bet that you have great success this way, don’t you. Cheers KK— I like just simply sitting on the little bench in front of our garden house, cuppa in hand looking and looking some more at the lovely daffs. They are such a joy.
