Sally, I agree - I got mine at a local nursery, and can't remember whether they were already bagged & tagged, or if I picked out the individual bulbs, so I don't know. Does your "Ice Follies" cup also fade to almost white as it ages?
I won't be entering them in any shows, so I guess it really doesn't matter. ;-)
Barb
Spring peeking!
Sally, I agree - I got mine at a local nursery, and can't remember whether they were already bagged & tagged, or if I picked out the individual bulbs, so I don't know. Does your 'Ice Follies' cup also fade to almost white as it ages?
I won't be entering them in any shows, so I guess it really doesn't matter. ;-)
Barb
PS: Just did a quick search, and this might explain the similarity between the two:
http://www.colorblends.com/Daffodil/Slim-Whitman/
EXCEPT the cup of my alleged 'Slim Whitman' fades... So maybe I really do have 'Ice Follies'... Oh well. I still like it, whatever it's called!
Diva- I believe so...At least, what I bought that was labeled Ice Follies. Who ever knows LOL. Can't show pictures as I'm on the other comp. Tete a Tete is a nice early one- I have a good bunch of them too. As another NOID one.
Editing after reading your edit, Diva LOL
Oh! Well, my Ice follies cup is pale, not what I'd call egg yellow to near orange, ever. Maybe your SlimWhitmans reverted! If they sport one way, would you think they could 'unsport?'
This message was edited Mar 26, 2009 6:26 PM
Daylily, at the Pottery garden building outside they had lots of shrubs and a decent selection of perennials. I got some heucheras and lamiums, good sized & healthy for 5.99 each. Inside the building I got the hen and chickens, OSPs, Sweet Caroline Red and Light Green, lantana "Confetti", Stained Glassworks Coleus, Tilt a whirl, Big Blonde and Witch Doctor, pennisetum setaceum "Red Riding Hood" and an iris called Best Bet. I managed to get a few other bagged bulbs too but decided not to list everything I got. It's beginning to sound greedy. I just can't help myself. Nice selection, great deals and a husband in a giving mood. I'm so "into" spingtime and looking at everyone's beautiful flowers, it just makes it worse. I want to go to all the sales and buy, buy, buy. I can't help but wonder what I will do when my co-op plants start arriving if I keep buying from nurseries, etc. It will be just like always I guess, more plants sitting in pots waiting to get to their permanent home, hopefully before I run out of steam and before summer is over.
Wyldeflwr,
I was in Williamsburg in mid-February, but restrained myself from even going there because I thought it might be a little too early to start stocking up on plants. However, early APRIL is a different matter. Heh, heh, heh. Luckily, DH is also very understand of my hobby/addiction. Sounds like you got some real goodies!
And hey, if you need pots, I HIGHLY recommend this place - have ordered from them many times:
http://www.novoselenterprises.com/default.asp
Barb
Sally,
My "whatever" looks just like the photo I posted - definitely egg yellow, sometimes golden-orange, and it always fades.
HAH - like your thought - maybe it did "unsport" and reverted. Stranger things have happened in the garden...
Nothing is stranger than naming a Narcissus 'Slim Whitman'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a28EBGEkCs
These started blooming yesterday, I think they're from bulbs I dug up in the woods where someone had a garden decades ago. Some crocuses are bigger than these things.
LOL, claypa! You're right - as I said in an earlier post, I bought it mainly for its appearance!!!! I have definitely been known to buy plants/bulbs for their name, but this wasn't one of them. ;-)
Very cute little daffodils - is this their first year?
Yes, at first I wasn't sure if they were one of the new (here anyway) species tulips I planted last fall, or something else.
Were they really small bulbs? The general shape of the trumpet looks like it could be a Tete-a-Tete that just isn't established yet, and the timing is about right. My T-a-T bulbs are similar to a small shallot, if that helps give you an idea of the size.
In any case, mark that spot for next year! ;->
I don't remember really, I guess they'd have to be small bulbs. There are others just that small, too (about 3").
I'll find clumps without blooms and divide them. They might have come from a shrub I dug up at my brother's house, not sure.
Puschkinia libanotica
Very pretty! Is that a new one too? That's really nice.
It's their second year and they're blooming much better, but I should have put them in clumps. Very small.
Still more species crocuses coming up out back, where it's shadier.
'Noids' (no ID) and 'Autumn Joy' sedum
Galanthus with green fish-looking shapes on them - they just appeared where a forsythia used to be, never saw them before. I didn't plant them.
.............WHAT are "Noids"?????
I have now read that in a couple of Posts....
Gita - "noids" - No ID - i.e, have no clue as to name! ;-)
claypa--how do I turn him off??? Eeek! Did anybody really enjoy that?
Your tiny daffs do look like my tete a tete which are very short this year, they were much taller when forced but I may have read that that happens...And I have the name for your NOID... it's " THose old yellow daffs that everybody has if they only have one daffodil that came with the place..." Here's my came with the place daffs, let's see how they compare. I can't see much in these darn thumbnails
Mike, Those galanthus can appear out nowhere, but what a nice surprise for you. I have a different variety, and each year, I find one or two plants (singles!) in various spots far away from the original group. Again, strange things happen in gardens when we're not looking! LOL.
Hm, my CWTP daffs may be a little more wide spread than long cupped as yours. Yours have the same shape as some my mom has, but which are light yellow on the back ?corolla? wonder if I have a pic. Nope, I have never stoeln any from her, surprisingly. They smell bad anyway.
Here are my Tete a Tete
I'm keeping an eye on these I named Horse farm rescue, for how I got them. From an abandoned, to be developed horse farm and four home sites, all I found of interest was one clump of these.
Sally,
It took me a minute to realize that you were talking about turnin off SLIM, not claypa! TOO FUNNY - I couldn't figure out why you wanted to turn him off. Duh!
So, you don't like the yodeling, huh? ROTFL!
Also, love the name for the generic yellow daffs that we all have somewhere! Perfect!!! ;-)
OK! Here are some of mine!!!! DAH......
Don't they ALL look alike????? Here we are all posting "OURS".....
Slim Whitman's music made the Martian's heads explode in the movie "Mars Attacks", one of the greatest films of all time.
Gita, and I spelled 'noid' out trying to be inclusive and everything - gosh.. LOL
Helleborus niger, which bloomed the last two Augusts (?!), this is the first time they've bloomed in winter/spring
Yeah, turn off Slim, NOT claypa! sorry!
This is from a neighbor--and ladygardener said it could be "Orange ice follies"
I am not that crazy about my Orange ice follies , though. But they're flowers, and somewhat early at that. It'll be awhile before I get to the point of throwing out daffodils just to change to a better cultivar.
Some things like that Pushkinia- it's taken me awhile to learn that just a few tend to be lost.
I only had a few of these White Lion and now just one-- too much effort to produce this big flower so it doesn't make offsets much if at all. I moved it to a better location-tomorrow I will fertilize, better late than never?
corona = trumpet or cup, petals = perianth segments
My dwarf units don't have frilled or flaired trumpets, kind of Tete-a-tete like
The good thing about fertilizing Now is that you can tell where the heck they are!
Chionodoxa taking their sweet time emerging this year. This was taken at work, I might volunteer to remove some for "propagation".
Ah, thx!
Look at that gorgeous portrait of dwarf daff, with dew drops and all!!
Beautiful photos claypa :) Seeing all these pictures of Daffodils makes me think I should add some to the area of Hostas I'm planting. The area will be so boring early next spring and they certainly would add some color! I've been eyeing some that are growing on an abandoned property Phoebe and I pass every morning on our walk. I might just have to carry some flags with me to mark them and go back in the fall to dig them up :)
I'd dig them later this spring (even if you don't wait for the foliage to "ripen" all the way, they'll recover, although some may not bloom next year)... it's easier to see where they are if there are still a few leaves hanging on! Flags have a way of wandering just a bit... LOL
Oh yeah, keep an eye on the leaves. That's also a handy way to see how deep they were growing. I move daffs in late spring/ early summer routinely.
Or consider fall pansies for the hosta area, Well, not sure how I'd like pansies when the hosta is going good- that might be too busy.
Ditto to what Critter and sally say about digging those daffodils. If you want, you can wait to dig until they begin turning yellow, but aren't ready to be pulled, and just plop them right where you want them. They'll thank you for the rescue! My daffs foliage is usally ready to be yanked by around Father's Day.
This is a picture of another No ID Daffodil, planted years ago by my next-door neighbor - in my yard! How's that for a good neighbor? ;-) He planted a line of them in front of a row of azaleas that I had put along the border between our yards, in a shady area. They look very nice and cheerful in front of the dark green leaves. The cup is a slightly darker orange than it appears in this picture.
(Edited to correct a spelling error)
This message was edited Mar 27, 2009 7:07 PM
Not too much color from these ... yet! The pink bleeding hearts (Dicentra spectabilis) are sending up foliage!
The larger leaf in the top right of the picture is from an unknown variety of fernleaf Phacelia, a biennial with a nice blue flower.
(Edited to add the info on Phacelia)
This message was edited Mar 27, 2009 7:11 PM
And the Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are popping up. After a slow start, they're finally spreading around a bit. The little green rosettes in the bottom left of the photo are Sweet Woodruff, my favorite little ground cover.
I definitely have a LOT of clearing out and cleaning up to do out back... ;-O
I went to water my Rose bed today----and about 4-5 totally baby rabbits ran out of a pile of leaved in the back of it! The were maybe 4" long!!!
They took off to my neighbors yard and, hopefully, found a new hiding place! As cruel as this may sound--I don't want them back! I sprinkled some Snake Away where they ran from....NOT sure I can afford this "treatment"! The jug costs about $14 at Lowes.....I am 2/3 of a way through it already--and nothing much has sprouted yet!
I have been noticing that the tops of my newly emerging Species Tulips I planted last fall are getting chewed off--as are the leaves of the emerging Grape Hyacynths.
It is like the nightmare of the Summer of 2008 repeating itself!!!!!!
MUST I start putting my stupid, plastic rabbit fence around my beds already??????
Kind of early! AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Gita
Ah Gita, I feel your pain.
We had been enjoying the teeny baby rabbits (one year we had triplets, that sound about the size of the ones you saw!) we'd see every spring a few years back, until they became teenaged rabbits, with voracious appetites.
We have since had at least one fox, maybe two, move into the area (and we're NOT out in the country), and guess what? No baby rabbits. I don't need to know the details, and I hope they've just moved on somewhere else.
I hope you're able to deter them. But just think, you could have DEER... ;-O It could be worse, I guess.
NO chance of deer...here....I live in a development...
Never seen a fox!
Had a black snake one year--wish he/she was back!
Too many trees blocking the view--or some hawks might help out....
Kind of a lost cause......
Mt new neighbor behind me cut down a huge, old Holly. I think some of the rabbits nested under there last Summer....Now they have to find new places.....
No matter how cute the little bunnies are---i don't want then around! Last Summer I counted 4 generations of bunnies in my yard! 'Nuff said!
Gita
Don't say that there is no chance of deer where you live - I live in a development (subdivision) too - we are 8 miles from the DC line - and we have had deer come through every once in a while. I have a good friend that lives in a subdivision not 2 miles from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and she has deer (more than one!) come through EVERY NIGHT. Count your blessings if you haven't seen them yet...
I have seen the foxes here at all times of day, and also at dusk. One morning last year I was outside deadheading my daylilies, and was about 15 feet from the back door, and I noticed a movement from the side of the yard. I thought it was a neighborhood cat (we have a few of them who think they own the place), but no - it was a beautiful adult fox, prancing across my patio like IT owned the place! He (she?) marched on down the driveway, went across the street to the neighbor's yard, then worked its way down the street.
And so it goes. At least we don't have bears... ;->
How about Moth Balls? It keeps rabbits away. Just put a circle of them around the plants or area affected.