Landscaping with Bulbs--TOW
James Waddick (Tue, 07 Oct 2003 08:35:44 PDT)

Dear all;
I used to think that narcissus were the totally fool proof
landscape bulb for my climate, but have found out slightly
differently*. In any case it is still the most reliable, easiest,
cheapest and available landscape bulb for my area. Perfectly good
acceptable cultivars are sold in garden centers, mass markets, and
drug stores every fall, yet I am constantly amazed that it is not in
EVERY garden. I live in an area with a major building boom. Houses
and developments pop up at an alarming rate. People spend a million
dollars on a house and get the standard green meat ball landscape or
worse Zero-scaping. Just a few dollars would bring years of joyful
bloom in daffodils that multiply and satisfy.
So this plea is for you good gardeners to give even your
worst black- thumb gardening friends a bag of daffodils of any kind.
Plant the bulbs for them if needed. They are available in quantity
now. You practically cannot loose. Why wait for Chrsitmas? Surely no
one has too many.

Best Jim W.

* We are subject to late frost and one time, in decades of growing
daffodils, a especially hard late freeze totally killed flower stalks
and foliage of a couple early varieties, but even so they recovered
enough to boom the next spring. This is a rare exception.
--
Dr. James W. Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd.
Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Ph. 816-746-1949
E-fax 419-781-8594

Zone 5 Record low -23F
Summer 100F +