Northeast Gardening: Today's Weather in Your Garden - 19, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Not inspired by the 45 cloudy day that is blowing about 20mph with rain threatening on and off all day. Too much to do to have this crummy weather I hate working out in the wind. Drat. But I feel guilty about all my narcissus being so happy. I can report that Obdam and Ice King are pretty, but very weak stemmed and Extravaganza is too droopy.

I looked for pictures from last year to compare. I think the bloom count is similar, but the picture of the narcissus, which have naturalized in in the yard since the 80's is different in that the top picture was taken on May 8th in 2007 while the bottom one was taken on April 30th in 2008, as is the the comparison of the tulip count. Therefore we are more than a week early this year. I started checking and it seems true across the board.

I planted almost all the tulips pictured in the fall of 2006 so they have come back extremely well as I didn't add any of more to these last fall. ( Juan, Come Back, Red Impression, Banja Luka, Daydream and hoping it wouldn't return as I didn't like it, but it did, El Cid ) But I did pop in a few new kids elsewhere. Patti