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Message 1.Â
Posted by Tee Gee (U10012255) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
Took these around 1-00pm today (30/3/11)
Back garden from different levels & distance;
Back garden from two directions;
Inside of the greenhouse with well over 1000 plants on the go;
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Message 2
Posted by Logissimo (U14020652) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
......so you like daffies then!
A glorious display, ours, after a very warm and sunny March are almost over, plenty of other things to look forward to though!
Enjoy yours and thanks for sharing them with us. L -
Message 3
Posted by Highland Jeannie (U10837323) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
What a lovely display - ours have only just started up here.
What do you do when they die down, do other things come up & cover them, or do you put up with the dying leaves?
I'm curious, as having a new bare garden I will eventually be planting bulbs this year & don't know whether to put them in the ground or use those "bulb baskets" so they can be lifted after they've finished.
Daffies really lift the spirits!
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Message 4
Posted by grassisgreener (U14569661) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
WOW,
I love Daffs my fav flowers wish i had half youe amount.
Did have a few but had a rabbit who ate them have planted more so hope for next year.
Sue, -
Message 5
Posted by daintiness (U3887838) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
A beautiful display and worth the backache of planting all those bulbs ! I'm envious of your staging in your gh - a great set up.What kinds of things are you growing?
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Message 6
Posted by TomBradbury (U3349234) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
I like daffs but I don't like them after they've finished flowering and all that is left is green leaves which end just getting in the way when I want to do my summer bedding. What to you do with yours when they have finished flowering? Do you chop the leaves, tie them up, or lift the bulbs and replant in autumn?
I just grow mine in pots and place them around the garden when in bloom, but then move them to a hidden bit of the garden when finished. -
Message 7
Posted by Swedboy (U14400604) on Wednesday, 30th March 2011
Fantastic makes my ten daffs look kinda measly!! What is the tree in the background? Cherry of some kind?
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Message 8
Posted by Tee Gee (U10012255) on Thursday, 31st March 2011
What do you do when they die down, do other things come up & cover them, or do you put up with the dying leaves?
I'm curious, as having a new bare garden I will eventually be planting bulbs this year & don't know whether to put them in the ground or use those "bulb baskets" so they can be lifted after they've finished.Â
Firstly I never lift them, these have been in the garden for many years.
Re - the dying leaves; Once the daffodils are over the Tulips come up and they take your eye off the dying back leaves.
The secret is in how they are planted out!
When I planted them out all those years ago I placed them in groups of three 12" apart both ways.
This means I can get my bedding plants between them without disturbing them.
see here;
Followed by this;
Followed by this;
Followed by this;
Followed by this;
A beautiful display and worth the backache of planting all those bulbs ! I'm envious of your staging in your gh - a great set up.What kinds of things are you growing?Â
No back ache nowadays and I was very much younger when I put them in so was upto the task!
Don't know if I would be today
The staging was made to suit my purpose i.e. it is a 'propagating' greenhouse basically.
I rarely grow anything in it during the summer, I use the three greenhouse and tunnel I have on the allotment for my tomatoes etc.
Regarding what I am growing?
There are over 1000 seedlings in there at the moment!
There are around 150 brassicas, 100 tomatoes, 25 chillis, melons, watermelons, aubegines, celery and thats just the veg I have going at the moment.
The rest is bedding plants with around 100 each of Lobelia, Marigolds, Asters, Antirrhinums, Petunias and a few other I just can't remember at the moment
I hope that answers your query...Tg -
Message 9
Posted by rosalba (U4525566) on Thursday, 31st March 2011
absolutley gorgeous!
And that cherry blossom is a stunner, do you know what tree it is? -
Message 10
Posted by Vixxihibiscus (U13865184) on Friday, 1st April 2011
Tee Gee, I'm so jealous, what a phenomenal display. Just lovely!
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Message 11
Posted by madtaff (U14777254) on Sunday, 3rd April 2011
Is that a host of golden daffoldills i see ? they look beautifull!
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Message 12
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Are you saying Tee Gee that the bed in question is the same bed that you have photographed there? You don't have the daffs beneath grass but weed free soil?
Do your tagetes and antirhinum follow in the same bed vicinity? -
Message 13
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Monday, 4th April 2011
The question of flower organization in the garden is an interesting one.
If you have got an existing garden with ever present Daffodil/narcissi, you really have to make do and mend.
I don't know whether it would be possible to identify the bulbs once they are out of the ground, but what I do, and ave done in the lasr few days is tie a peiece of string round a cluster of daffodisl which are in amongst some of an other variety, so that I can plant them and identify them separately in future. Regular planting and digging out, say every seven or eight years will eventually provide order of species, in the way that the Borough councils achieve it, in their beds.
Meanwhile I count the varieties and add to my collection of Daffodils/narcissi whenever i can. I see about thirty different varieties in my travels around this part of the country, of which i have nine; some of them are only subtle differences, and it can be very hard recognizing them as different!
At the moment I have a crop of Dandelions which very attractively follow the daffodils on the designated lawn, which is also turning in to a moss lawn which I value, but following the daffs with tulips would be a very useful addition indeed to the garden.
I would have to mark out the spaces available for next years' tulips before cutting back the dead daffodils. When is best and cheapest for Tulips? -
Message 14
Posted by Tee Gee (U10012255) on Monday, 4th April 2011
Are you saying Tee Gee that the bed in question is the same bed that you have photographed there? You don't have the daffs beneath grass but weed free soil?
Do your tagetes and antirhinum follow in the same bed vicinity?Â
Yes! to both questions!
No I have not naturalised any bulbs in the lawn! and all of the pictures are of the same bed.
If you look at the spring/summer picture ( the one with the lawn) this shows the transition from Spring to summer!
That is the beds have been filled with bedding plants after the spring bulbs have been cut down.
I hope that answers your question!
In terms of time span the pictures range from around February to Sept/Oct. -
Message 15
Posted by Lokelani (U8896212) on Friday, 8th April 2011
Wow that is amazing. I don't think I've ever seen such clever & fantastically efficient use of border space.
That really puts my few bulbs dotted here & there to shame. If they were in the borders I'd end up planting on top of them or accidentally digging them up.
It must have taken a lot of organisation, but what a glorious amount of flowers & colours you have for so many months. That's really impressive.
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