How long 'til daffodils?

Andy, I used to think I had inheritted ipheon but I guess I have chiondoxa. Can you eyeball mine for me?

Dave they look a little lighter in color but they look like Chionodoxa to me. Nice cluster.

Andy, thanks for your help.It's a tough call: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/765/index.html but they are nice whatever they are. They grow scattered across most of my acre but I have this cluster that is just amazing.

They seem to like clusters. I've had them for years and always enjoy them.

Dave, they look very similar. The Chionodoxa seem to have norrower leaves.
Here are some pink ones just posted by Rannveig on the Daily pics - page 8 thread. http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=3267026
Andy P

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Andy, I never saw pink before.
They are both great because the leaves fit perfectly in a lawn. Nothing to hide.
Pirl, what are yours?

Mine are "dumb luck" ala VB's, circa 1992.

Daffodil alert in Bridgeport, CT. They are poking their leaves out of the ground!!!!!!! I fed them all today lots of Gardens Alive Bulbs Alive fertilizer. Soon, soon VA-VOOM!

some of mine are coming up, too. hooray! enough snow finally melted that I can see the beds (at least some of them, anyway)

Ugh I still have a long ways to go before I see my flower bed :( I love looking at all the pics though! It is what gets me through.

Many that I planted in December are up a few inches. It should be a bonanza spring.

I JUST saw all my crocus and some of the daffodils starting to emerge - and now this! Snow again. &*&)&^^%$*09-!!!!

Buried all my crocuses! Enough already. We want spring!!!!!!

here's one of my free daffs from Park's that I planted last fall. I just heard a plow go by, so I guess they're buried again.

Gram, the plow went by a half hour ago. My Daffs are buried, too. They will be fine.
Andy P

Yes, they will. The flowering mechanisms are buried within the bulb.

I know :0) I'm just sick of the snow.

Yearning for spring I stepped outside today to take a few snow pictures and flew down the steps. I remember when that would have been so much fun I'd do it over and over but not anymore. Scared the shamrocks out of me!

Dang - and the camera didn't fall and take a picture of that. I see I have a few tulip leaves up.

Dang twice! I can't show off how graceful I wasn't!

This past Thursday I saw the tulip leaves are about 3" tall. Right now they're covered with snow. I did manage to spread some food on the tulips before the snow arrived.

Well, the spring bulbs are emerging - and the #$$^&#@^ squirrels are biting off the tips of the crocuses. sigh.

The bunnies eat the greens. Do your squirrels eat the flowers?

No - they don't eat them - they just bite them off, then discover they taste yucky and spit them out! grrrrrrrr.

Maybe they work for a nursery?

Hi. I'm back on........
The bunnies chew on my flowers, the squirrels dig up all the bulbs they can find. A neat trick....... when planting bulbs or corms, just throw in some pebbles. It used to be you could throw in some talc powder, to make the critters choke. I never tried that one.

Blood meal works beautifully, for me, keeping the bunnies away from my lilies.

It wont be too much longer for my first Daffodils. These sprouted during the warm Christmas season then got their tips frozen when Winter really set in.
The buds look fine, though. I shot this a few minutes ago.
These are way ahead of any other Daffs I have.
Andy P

That is great that they survived for a Spring bloom. I have a few out there that had half opened then froze (plus the 6-8 I picked.) I'll have to check those they budded but didn't open.

Everytime it seems like its getting closer to daffodil flowers, something happens to the weather . . . at this rate I will have bulbs flowering in July . . .

I'm with you on that one, seandor. Today, the weather is not showing any promise. I did have some flowering bulbs coming up, but it might take a bit longer after this week...........................

It'll come. I go through this every April.

We have 31 degrees now and the daffodils in bloom are holding their own and not collapsing. It will be a long weekend, and then next week, seeing what happens.

The daffodils in my back yard are blooming - the ones in the front are not. Can it be that my front and back are in different zones?

Probably one area is warmer - the back, it seems. Or maybe more protected or the soil temperatures.

In our courtyard it has to be at least half a zone warmer than the back yard.

The backyard daffs are in a raised bed! Of course. Good catch, Pirl.

With age comes wisdom............sometimes. Just a good guess, actually.

It's snowing!

None for Christmas but here it is now!

No Way! You must be joking! You are much warmer than we are - sunny but cool - but I expect we will get snow soon if you are getting snow . . . sigh

It lasted about 10 minutes! Whew.

No snow yet. Talked to my mom in British Columbia interior - average temp should be in the mid-40s or so - temperature there on Saturday was 80 degrees and it was already 56 degrees at noon Sunday.

Meanwhile -still very cool here.