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[cat63]

Some pictures from the last few days

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[rhodielady_47]

I could only wish the Jetfire daffodil did well here.
Mine lost their color after a few years and then died out.
It's so weird. I have other daffodils that love it here and multiply like rabbits.
It's finally warming up where I am.
:^)

[cat63]

Mine come from the "sad corner" of the local shop and have multiplied madly in our little garden. I wonder what they're missing in your soil?

[rhodielady_47]

It may also be that the local climate isn't to their liking as easily as it is the soil OR both. People tend to forget that our modern daffodils came from a large group of plants that had similar flowers but which came from a wide variety of habitats/soils/microclimates.
What is the soil in your garden like? That might provide me with a clue or two.
BTW: Are you familiar with a daffodil called Ice Follies? It does really well for me and so does Thalia.
:^)

[cat63]

I can't usefully tell you what the soil in my garden is like as we bought most of it in (and carried it through the house in buckets. Happy days...).

Fairly dry and sandy when it arrived, I think, but beyond that I'm stuck. Our garden is small and comparatively shady and sheltered, and overhung by large trees from the sports ground behind it (planted to protect the houses from stray cricket balls, I suspect. Those things can pack a punch.). So there are a fair few fallen leaves in the autumn, which I gather up and put in the beds as mulch/hiding places for insects/eventual soil.

I've not heard of Ice Follies. Is is white, by any chance? ;)

[cat63]

Aw. I hope your weather cheers up soon!