A Daffodil Surprise
By Jo Miller
@pjmurphy (2499)
United States
February 22, 2019 12:18pm CST
We've had a few days of lovely spring-like weather here, so I've spent quite of bit of time outside cleaning out my flower beds and getting ready for spring blooms. The daffodils are just beginning to bloom.
We've planted quite a few daffodils since we've lived here, and they multiply and look better each year. Every fall I try to plant some more. We have five acres, so there's always room for more daffodils. Even though I always mean for us to plant some more each fall I sometimes don't get around to it. It's harder to think about planting flowers when its turning cold outside.
Last fall I didn't get around to planting any more daffodils, so when I went out to work in the yard I got a pleasant surprise--a whole row of new daffodils along the bank coming up to the house.
My husband had surprised me by planting them last fall, and I hadn't seen them until just recently. He said he transplanted them from an abandoned place down the road from us.
What a pleasant surprise and what a nice guy I have for a husband! Can't wait to see these in full bloom.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
22 Feb 19
Doffodils are my favorite spring flowers and represent the American Cancer Society. I always buy them even though my daffodils don't sprout until early April. I only pick the ones that the squirrels have transplanted where they don't belong.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
22 Feb 19
Oh wow that is so sweet of him to do, and such a lovely surpirse!
I do not have a green thumb. If I did I would be planting a lot more.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
23 Feb 19
@pjmurphy I think I will stick to the wooden flowers and other artificial ones.
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@Montecristodog (787)
• United States
23 Feb 19
My wife has a green thumb, also. One time, she grew some tomatoes in our back yard. Keep up the good work.
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@celticeagle (167015)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Feb 19
Yes, what a nice guy you have there. They are lovely flowers.
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@allknowing (136541)
• India
23 Feb 19
You remind me of that poem by William Wordsworth on Daffodils
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Mar 19
You do have a nice husband. I am looking for our spring blooms but it will be happening after the snow leaves...
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Feb 19
They will bring some sunshine into your life.
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@olliesmum (828)
• Norwich, England
26 Feb 19
I love bluebells and fortunately, in the wood beyond my garden, every spring we see a blanket of blue. A couple of years ago I was weeding my garden in the early spring and saw something that looked as if it could be a plant but I wasn't sure. I was curious to find out what it was so I left it alone. Lo and behold, I got a lovely little bluebell in the late spring! I'm assuming a seed had somehow got across from the woodland.