There are tens of thousands of flowers on this property. Originally planted
after the civil war, they have multiplied by the thousands. A dime found squished between the
bricks of the fireplace had a date of 1861, or something. Dime was lost do to a break-in back
in the mid-1990's.
Rain from a March 1st shower
What the parking scene usually looks like. It gets tight when
I have 3 - 4 customers stopping at once.
What I call Carnation
Variety found along river road. Sadly the owners of the propery
refused to let me dig out the bulbs. Within a year the new owners of the property had
rototilled the yard to make it "new", thereby killing thousands and thousands of these.
These only exist because I went ahead and took them while the house was in transition.
The day I dug these out, I was surprised by the daughter who thought I was steeling her
mother's bulbs. I often wonder if they knew the yard was going to be plowed,
would they have helped me dig out their mother's bulbs?
I asked the brother the day before if it was okay, I gave him $100 for one section of
bulbs. It was a short section, yet I counted over 2000 bulbs just from that one little
part of the yard. Wish I had dug the same day I made the deal with the brother.
These daffodils are the last to bloom, opening just before the narcissus. They are so late
in the season, the heat of summer approaching can wilt them and turn them brown on the
edges.
|
