My daffodils are blooming. I noticed the first one trying to unfurl on Wednesday as I was headed down to Granny’s. By Thursday morning they were blooming in clumps here and there.
We’ve had warm weather this week so I’m sure that helped. We’ve also had rain which might have helped a little too.
I have several different varieties and only the early ones are blooming so far.
I’ve grown daffodils for so many years that they have spread off down the bank. Some of the flowers likely got threw there as I was cleaning out the bed or planting something new. The bank is steep and makes a handy place to throw old cuttings and weeds.
I like thinking of the bank flowers as my cutting garden, only I have to climb down the steep bank without falling to cut the flowers. But taking advantage of the hidden daffodils allows me to enjoy them inside while leaving the beautiful ones in my flower beds that can be seen out the window, off the porch, and getting in or out of the car.
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I always have a hard time picking bulbs from the garden. Seems they wait all year long to bloom one gorgeous flower & I hate to cut short its’ life, even for a day. So I buy cut daffodils & tulips from the grocery store for my table or I wait & cut the ones knocked down by the rain in my garden. So funny, the relationship we each have with our gardens.
Our daffodils here in North Alabama have been blooming for a few weeks. Always nice to bring some blooms inside to brighten things up. A few years ago we had our drain field replaced and all the digging has spread bulbs around, so now we have daffodils in new places.
This is an enjoyable time of year to ride around looking for clumps of daffodils and a later in the year for daylilies on ‘vacant’ land. Always a good sign that sometime in the past someone lived on that piece of ground and took care of it…
Sometimes I think we worry too much about being precise, as in the etymology of words. After all, a dictionary is a compilation of words in usage (for whatever reason.) As to the Sarvice Tree,” I recall one in particular that still stands in Davis Chapel, TN. the home place of my maternal grandfather and a slew of other Davis family members. We’ve all called it a sarvice tree, and their parents likely did as well. I just always thought “sarvice” was their way of saying “service.” Makes sense to me
I’m from just north of New Hampshire’s northernmost Appalachian range, and here we usually have at least one fake spring. It fools a lot of folks into thinking winter’s over. We had our second fake spring last week, and even the birds got fooled this time! No buds yet though, so we’ll have to wait till April-ish. 6 inches of snow yesterday with more on the way! Enjoy your daffodils!
There is a “host” of Golden Daffodils on the bank by my house that are “jocund company”. I love them so. They remind me of Mother and being back home in Tennessee.
“The flutter and dance in the breeze.” 🙂
It sure looks like Spring has sprung!! Buttercups as we call them are in full bloom, yellow bell bushes are blooming, birds are singing, it makes you appreciate God’s beauty. However, tomorrow, it’s going to be a really cold day. We are not quite finished with Winter yet. Enjoyed the video last night. Granny Hicks is a true gem!!
Your daffodils are beautiful, Tipper. I think it’s great how you can cut them off the hillside to display inside, and still enjoy the beauty of the ones that grow outside all around your house. All the daffodils and trees are in bloom around our area too. Let’s hope we don’t have a bad frost anytime soon, but it’s not March yet, so changes are we probably will. So enjoy all the beauty while we can!
Way too early for all this blooming !
Going be a hard year for mast, fruit this year, surly will be some cold weather between now and May 10.
Stopped at the the farm supply store yesterday and people were already talking gardens. should be a good year for greenhouse retailers, likely they get repeat customers out of necessity.
The first flowers down here in north central Florida are the blueberries, sweet tea olive, spiderwort, violets, and of course, the citrus. Right now my potatoes have pushed through yesterday morning, the seedlings have sprouted in my grow bags, and blueberries have begun tiny berries covering the stems. If we don’t get the usual late frost we are golden. Can’t grow daffodils here except as an annual as it just doesn’t get cold enough for them. It’s one thing about the garden zones that is difficult for 9a and above zones – we need a different scale of how hot/humid it gets and what plants can take the high levels. Having your two locations for daffs to spread is a blessing for sure. when cutting for gifting. They are beautiful and seem to be waving and looking at you when you walk by. Fun.
Daffodils are blooming all over my neighborhood. The leaves on my are above ground, but no flowers.
My elderly neighbor, Margaret, for many years loved flower. When she weeded she would take the excess bulbs etc. and throw the debris over the bank at our mailboxes across the road. There are so many different little flowers that spring up on that bank, but by far the daffodils are the most prolific. That bank is such a thing of beauty, we have even seen people park and get out of their car to dig some bulbs. That would be considered theft by some since that one small piece of property at the bank still belongs to Margaret’s heirs. I do not interfere, because they are just spreading the beauty Margaret created during her time here. Daughter sold the house, but never turned loose of the small piece of property at the bank and mailboxes. She told me once, “it meant too much to my dad.” Thanks to your posts I learned and took note of how daffodils can often mark old homesteads. Your post today reminded me of my dear neighbor and how her discarded garden debris left a beautiful view on the bank for many years to come. She never grew a vegetable as far as I ever knew, but kept such beautiful, mostly perennial flowers. The folks who bought the home immediately mowed down all the flower beds in her yard, but despite their efforts little flowers still try to emerge through the grass each spring.
And next week they might be setting in 3 inches of snow. Maybe. I’m not ready for spring. I’m still waitng for a big snow. You have a Blessed day Tipper.
The daffodils have been blooming here for a week or two. I don’t recall ever seeing them bloom in February. With temperatures in the 70s, we will be mowing the grass before long if the upcoming cold snap doesn’t stop things from growing.
I gathered a handful Tuesday down in the edge of the woods. Like you I leave the ones in the flower beds near the driveway. They bring a smile when I walk into the dining room and see them on the table.
It’s 3 degrees here, with 2 inches of new snow. They are calling for warm weather next week, but it will be awhile before we see flowers. I was thinking about you mentioning seeing daffodils close to Maggie’s Chapel and what that could have possibly meant. I never considered about homes in those locations. Huh, interesting.
The big fat bright yellow daffodils are my favorite flowers. In our part of Virginia, the crocuses and daffodils are blooming and the maple trees have opened their buds and are getting ready to put out their leaves. The peach trees are beginning to bloom and the peepers have been really loud. I love this early spring weather, but I’m worried that we’re going to pay for it somewhere down the road.
I love daffodils. Plain and simple. My Grandma grew them by the smokehouse where we cured hams. They were always the first promise of spring. Another beautiful memory you gave us.
Our daffodils are beginning to bloom here on the Cumberland Plateau. They add a welcome and exquisite beauty to the dull wintertime landscape.
this is my first time planting daffodils, they are bursting with flower buds. Two opened yesterday and another today. I love seeing them as I drive down the road.
Our daffodils have started blooming as well! This is the earliest that they have ever bloomed around here, which is a record. I told my husband I think we’re in for an early spring this year but it is still February and old man winter will probably show his face again before spring really happens.
Tipper I thought of you yesterday as I was passing all the daffodils ( or buttercups to some) along my drive. There was also a field of purple Crokus that was just breathtaking! I’m so glad to see spring coming! It’s such a hopeful time! What a blessing to have a bank of spare flowers on the hill to pick your own bouquets!
I thought about you yesterday, Tipper, while I was driving and seeing daffodils (or buttercups) blooming and others green stems popping up. What really took my breath away was the biggest yard of purple Crokus I’ve ever been lucky enough to see! I could’ve parked and just sat there gazing for hours, but I didn’t since I had places to go. I think the idea of having a hill of flowers for the picking while enjoying many others would be simply a blessing! Spring is a beautiful time so let’s enjoy all the eye candy around us in flowers and fauna.
The daffodils in my area having been blooming for the last week or two. Mine did not bloom until last weekend. I hold my breath each year hoping my grandmother’s peony will come back up. I don’t how old it is, I only know it has been here all of my life (69 years). Along with the daffodils, I am now seeing robins and bluebirds. Spring is only about 3 1/2 weeks away by the calendar, but one of the local weathermen said last night that he sees no more real cold weather in site for us. He has been wrong before! Us younger whippersnappers could learn a lot and save our selves a lot of problems if we would have listened to the older folks. I dearly loved talking to my father in law and have him talk about the past. This may have a little to do with yesterday and mules, he said he started plowing one of their most gentle mules when he was 8 years old (1934) and his mother would massage his hands each morning to get them to open up, they would be closed into a fist each morning when he woke up. This sounds cruel, but it was a necessary way of life back then when your family’s livelihood depended on a sharecropper farm.
I’ve seen more daffodils blooming this year than ever before and they are glorious. I personally don’t have any because we have two black labs that take joy in digging up everything in the yard LOL. I especially enjoy seeing the ones that come up around the old home places even though the houses have long since been gone. Just another example of God’s handiwork ♡
It the Midwest we don’t get spring. We have winter then summer.(and a mess in between). But your post has inspired me to make may way over to Walmart and get some flowers for the table. We can have spring in our living room!
I love the daffodils in spring, they represent hope!
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I’m envious…we are covered with snow, following an 8″ snowfall!
Enjoy your beautiful daffodils, Tipper.
I got a first lily yesterday and what a site. Loved the interview and I have told, anyone that would listen, have a recording of your Mom and Dad or any of your Grands voice. You can usually remember what they said, but hearing it is a Blessing. I can hear my Grands words, but not their sound. Oh how I wish I had recorded them before their passing. God Bless