Here’s mine (actually my grandmother planted them ~50 years ago but I take care of them), just the plain old wild variety but very very lovely:

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And I have never forgotten this thread:
Here’s mine (actually my grandmother planted them ~50 years ago but I take care of them), just the plain old wild variety but very very lovely:

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And I have never forgotten this thread:
They’re gorgeous, cran! Ours haven’t bloomed yet. Hopefully soon!
I have some on my dining room table, but that’s as close as we’ll be to daffodils for a few more weeks. Gotta love 'em!
Robin
Mine are about half an inch out of the ground - under the snow! So much to look forward to!
Laura
Wow–ours started coming up in February and are now well past their peak. I guess your latitude makes a big difference.
Latitude matters less, I think, than the USDA gardening hardiness zone one lives in. I think the zone system takes latitude into acount as one of the factors, though.
http://outreach.missouri.edu/webster/webster/weather/HardinessZones-compressed.JPG
For example, zone 7 goes all the way into Canada, and zone 3 comes all the way down to Colorado.
Here in northern Indiana my daffodils are usually up by Easter, but I don’t think they are going to make it this year. Too much overcast skies and cold weather. But soon all of my Spring plants will be going bananas. I can’t wait for my purple cone flowers to do their thing. They are still undergroun, but I know that they are down there.
Thank you for posting your daffodils, Cran. We . . . sob! . . . don’t have them here! It’s too warm for bulbs of any sort. ![]()
Spring is definitely here. Tonight, night-blooming jasmine was on the evening breeze for the first time. It’s been in the upper 70s, so the air is warm and smells sweet and exotic everywhere, indoors and out.

Welcome. ![]()
You can “force” bulbs, which means to make them grow indoors. That’s what a lot of florist shops do in order to continually have fresh flowers. I’m not entirely clear on all the steps because it’s been a long time since I forced bulbs (so you’d be wise to look up the “how-to” yourself), but it involves planting them in a pot and putting the whole pot in the fridge for two months, which gives them time to grow good enough roots and keeps them cool enough, and then bringing them out into a sunny spot for them to sprout and bloom. After they bloom and begin to fade, they can go back into the fridge…
Well.. some of our daffodils bloomed a month or better ago and are already gone, but others of them haven’t even bloomed yet. They came up later.
Above, there is a link to Jerry Freeman’s posts about the daffodil garden. I shared that with my students, who found it inspirational. One of them gave me this link to a walking tour of the daffodil garden.
It’s nice.
http://www.geocities.com/thedaffodilgarden/walkingtour.htm