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Unusual sight in park
Just returned from a walk in my neighbouring country park where we came upon a council employee planting daffodils!
Apparently they had been languishing in some attic where they had put on considerable root growth binding them together and a good 4 inches of top growth. The poor man was hacking each bulb off from the entwined mass and dropping them in newly dug holes.
Had to share that with all of you!
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Oh dear! Well, at least they're getting a chance - even if they don't flower this year they may next ...... or perhaps the year after
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That is what I told the poor man who had been given the job. It cheered him up that I thought that perhaps, eventually, a few might thrive and multiply.
when I worked for my local parks department we found a sack behind some hoardings in a garage in the middle of April, it had been dripped on by a leaky roof so it had been watered and was actually flowering out of the bag!
we deflowered and planted the sprouted bulbs, two years later they looked great!
Well that is reassuring. I would take a walk to try to pass on your words to the gardener but it is chucking it down outside. Just shows that nature will overcome adversity.
The mention of daffodils reminded me of an incident we watched from our office window some years ago. Our offices were on the 3rd floor with windows overlooking our local park and I heard a lot of laughing and people moving to the windows.
Down in the park was a gentleman in an advanced state of inebriation (i.e. ****** as a rat!), concentrating hard, trying to push the flower stem of a daff back into the plant from which he had presumably pulled it. He persisted for at least 10 minutes before finally giving up.