A Daffodil Surprise

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@pjmurphy (2500)
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 (247216)
• 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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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
Some of ours are already beginning to bloom, but we have different varieties that bloom at different times.
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@DianneN (247216)
• United States
22 Feb 19
@pjmurphy You must live further south than Connecticut. We only have jonquils besides daffodils. I'd love a garden of them blooming at different times. They are so sunny and exude happiness.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
@DianneN I live in Tennessee, and our daffodils sometimes peek out of the snow. There are different varieties that bloom at different times.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
22 Feb 19
Sounds great to me.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
It was great.
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@JWMILLER (3280)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
22 Feb 19
@pjmurphy Glad it was.
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• 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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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
23 Feb 19
I didn't have a green thumb when I started gardening either. I just kea pt working at it. Daffodils are easy to grow. Almost fail proof. As are daylilies.
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• United States
23 Feb 19
@pjmurphy I think I will stick to the wooden flowers and other artificial ones.
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
24 Feb 19
You certainly do have a nice husband. I don't have much in the way of spring flowers, I don't start gardening until May.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
24 Feb 19
Our daffodils are our first flowers to bloom. They last for a few weeks and then other things will be out. I do have a nice husband.
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@noni1959 (9901)
• United States
23 Feb 19
How sweet of a surprise. They are a sunny lovely flower.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
23 Feb 19
It was very sweet, and we'll be enjoying them for years.
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• 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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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
24 Feb 19
Good for your wife.
@celticeagle (160015)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Feb 19
Yes, what a nice guy you have there. They are lovely flowers.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
23 Feb 19
I do have a nice guy.
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@allknowing (130292)
• India
23 Feb 19
You remind me of that poem by William Wordsworth on Daffodils
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
23 Feb 19
I love that poem.
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@Juliaacv (48660)
• Canada
22 Feb 19
I do like daffodils, they signal the start of spring to me. And they are the flower that represent the Canadian Cancer Society, and March is their month.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
They are lovely and they always give my spirits a boost.
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@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
22 Feb 19
Daffodils are lovely flowers. Pity that they bloom only once a year. Ours only show the top of the leaves yet.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
We have early bloomers and late bloomers so they last for a while. By then other flowers are blooming.
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• 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...
@JudyEv (326727)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Feb 19
How nice is that? My Mum had a great patch of daffodils and jonquils. It was a mass of yellow when they all bloomed.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
24 Feb 19
A mass of yellow is the goal I'm after.
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Feb 19
They will bring some sunshine into your life.
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
I'm looking forward to it.
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22 Feb 19
So pretty!
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@pjmurphy (2500)
• United States
22 Feb 19
They'll look even prettier this year with more daffodils.
@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.