LeawoodGardener said:I still only have the 'Tete-a-Tete' narcissus blooming in the border, but rain on Sunday caused the 'King Alfred' daffodils around my pond to grow overnight.

Beautiful view.

Newyorkrita said:Hurray for the first daff of the year. My very first of the MARIA daffs opened today. It was a surprise as I was not expecting it. But the EARLY SENSATION ones have been blooming since mide Feb.

Here is my first Maria daff of the year-





And the Early Sensations on the right side of the yard. -

Very nice.

Thank you! And more daff blooms just keep coming open each day.

No daffs here yet, but I'm loving Ritas.

Leawoodgardener. That pond is just gorgeous. Please, please show us a pic when the daffs are in bloom!

The Maria daffs in the backyard have started to open today.

Someone posted this link at Daves Garden about this stunning disply of a Garden with 20 million daffodils. It is so pretty! LInk for vieo of news story showing a little of the garden-

http://www.11alive.com/news/ar...

Maria Daffs in the backyard, then a daff clump and the daffs blooming in the southside rose garden. Daffs along the serviceberry garden and finially the front yard.











All this blooming going on while others are still just coming up now.

Split corona daffs that I planted two years ago. Didn't like them when they bloomed last year so didn't expect much this year as they look just the same. Tulips in front of them.

Oh my, it just keeps getting better and better.

Our daffs are just beginning to open....and they are not liking this unseasonal heat one tiny bit! The beautiful doubles outside my kitchen window are almost bent double from it. It's like July here today! I keep telling them....just make it through today ... (I think it's supposed to be a bit cooler after that).

Chelle, I don't like it too hot when the spring bulbs bloom as it makes them blow fast and makes for a shorter bloom season. And I try not to get daffodil doubles because they tend to flop on the ground for me. Not an attractive look!

Tee,, thanks. I do love the way things look with all the very cheerful daffodil blooms. It really does keep getting better and better!

But I need even more daffs in spite of all the ones I have already done. I was so pleased with the 200 Scheepers Long Trumpet mix of daffs I did two years ago that I have already decided on four more of the Scheepers mixes as I know where they will go. So I am thinking 100 each of four mixes, All White Mix, Fragrant Mix, Gold Medal Mix and Rinus Rim Mix to make 400 dafodils. And I know I will not end there. I want about 100 February Gold and who knows what else.

I been planting daffs here each fall for awhile and the place is finially shaping up with lots of early spring color. Wow, it was so very drab before the big push to plant daffs around the garden.

Some pretties...before the heat gets them.

Gorgeous Chelle!

Thanks, Polly!

(Don't tell my mom that I've become a spring bulb nut - I'd never hear the end of it! )

K. I promise not to.

Daffs in front of shrubs that are not even yet leafed out. More daffs there are just coming up and I have lilies in front of the daffs. Then I usually just plant marigolds in front of everything.



This is a shot of the terraces garden near my kitchen door. One terrence in front of the other built into the hill going up. In the summer it is stunning but now looks forlorn with only afew daffs blooming. I plan to add more daffs there and tulips also this fall plus lots of Chionodoxa.



Backyard Maria daffs.



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Long view of the very big mid backyard bed where you can see that row of MARIA daffs. This bed has daffs, tulips, dutch iris, tall bearded iris, daylilies, lilies, annuals and some perrenials.



Nanking cherries are blooming today. It just hit me as I was taking pictures today how pretty daffodils would look under and at the foot of these shrubs. I don't know why I never thought of it before!

Three pics of the front yard daffs in the Mini terraces, Then two of YORK MINISTER.
Daffodils blooming along in the southside rose garden 2 pics. Last some split corona daffs.

Just beautiful, Rita!!

A real treat for your neighbors, I can imagine.

Thanks! At least the front yard ones are there for all the world to see as you can just walk by my house and stand on the sidewalk to view them.