Something for nothing

[callmemadam]

If you grow hellebores, you'll always find a little cluster of seedlings around them. I've had no success transplanting these, so I wait until they flower in situ, to see if they're any good. I've had my eye on a particular bud on a tiny plant and today it was open.



Better than most, I think.

So far this year, all the daffodils for the house have come from the garden. Yesterday at the market daffs were four bunches for a pound, so how could I resist?



More pictures here in the gallery.
Edit: duh, wrong gallery. It's right for March now.

Comments

[hartleyhare.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures!

Daffs from the market are always a good thing. There are so many commercial growers near here (over at Spalding, and out into the Fens) that we have a steady supply, which is particularly good as our garden doesn't seem to be producing many at the moment.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

You're in the right place! We think of the Dutch as the pre-eminent bulb growers but there are actually more daffodil bulbs grown commercially in East Anglia than in the Netherlands.

Our daffodils will be over soon, except for the really late ones. I have a patch in the veg. garden just for picking. You can buy a mixed bag of a hundred bulbs very cheaply.