These are from our front garden picked 15th January, would you believe it, still January!!
Quite a few years ago, when I was still working as a teacher, I always wore a daffodil on March 1st, St David's Day.
The one year none of the shops in Billericay had any, and none in my garden either, not even a leaf. So I wore a silk one.
The following year, round about the middle of February I dug up a daffodil bulb, that had just a crown of leaves breaking through the soil.
I balanced it on a slim jam jar with water in it, so that just the roots were in the water and kept it in the kitchen in the warm.
I had a sort of bloom by March, although I had to forcibly open the bud, but I did have a daffodil and of course that year every supermarket in town had bunches galore!!
What flowers have you flowering early, snowdrops?
Chrisxx
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I've never tried to grow bulbs, they have to be kept in the freezer until it's cold enough to put them in the ground, but there's a tulip festival every year in late August. The climbing mandevilla is flowering, loves the heat.
How beautiful these look to me right now. Mine won't be until late March or early April at all. And this morning with fresh snow on the ground there's no chance of even any green leaves popping up yet. So I enjoy looking at everyone else's.
Wow - they are so pretty! We are covered in snow and will have no blooms until at least April.
Your daffodils are lovely. Snowdrops are blooming here now, and hellebores. Crocus and daffodil tips are poking up from the ground but it will be awhile before they bloom.
I don't have anything flowering yet outside, but I have forced some crocus blooms for a little brightness inside on this snowy day.
Although we have had snow, ice, very cold winds, there is sun around but still cold and ground sodden - the garden has three good clumps of snowdrops waving their heads, swathes of muscari leaves all standing proud with flower heads just emerging, three white Lenten Rose in full bloom, Daphne Odora in full flower and smelling delicious. Doesn’t it just fill us with joy at Mother Nature’s fanfare towards the coming of Spring. Jan in Castle Gresley (middle of the UK and furthest from the coast)
Daffodils are really a beautiful flower, when I lived in a house there were always some growing in my garden. My garden is the one thing I miss, as I now live in an apartment.
Gardens here are frozen solid and covered with lots and lots of snow, so we will not see any flowers blooming outside until at least April.
Inside, I have six house plants, and a poinsettia that is still looking beautiful and two of my cacti are now full of blooms also.
Wow daffodils in January. Never happen around here!!!! Love daffodils, so pretty.
Your daffodils are lovely ...
All the best Jan
I always buy daffodils when they first appear in the grocery stores. To me, they are the first sign of spring.
Wow how lovely! Nothing will grow here for a while. It's too cold and snowy!
Beautiful daffodils!! Mine are peeking up a few inches. It will be a while before any bloom.
My word! Not even a peep of green here, as it is very cold, 9°f here or -12.8C.
That is a beautiful vase of bright yellow Spring joy.
I have a pink hellebore in flower with lots more buds to come.
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