Thanksgiving Week Daffodils

The Daffodil Planters Extraordinaire showed up at high noon on the Wednesday of Thanksgiving Week to plant Ed's 65th birthday daffodils. Armed with spades, shovels, kneeling pads, gloves, and willing spirits, the crew finished the job in a quick half hour, planting 41 clumps with about 260 bulbs.

Spellbinder bulbs from Landreth Seed Company in New Freedom, PA

Back in April, Bill Esch and I planned a company-wide 65th birthday party for Ed that included a card shower, a cake in the shape of an old fashioned crank telephone, and a request for a buck or two from everybody so we could plant daffodils along the Museum Walk in downtown Pigeon. The employees honored Ed with a generous amount of money -- for the daffodils, and some more that will go toward irrigation lines to keep the roses and daylilies and other plantings watered in the dry months of summer.

I order the daffodils bulbs (botanically, a daffodil is a narcissus) from Landreth Seed Company out east. That's their box on the lawn along the Museum walk. Come next April, the split rail fence and paver walk that leads to Pigeon's Musum Complex should be a show place of yellow daffodils.

 

 

Photos by Kathy Kent and Wanda Eichler

 

Copyright 2012

Wanda Hayes Eichler