{"id":8437,"date":"2023-03-12T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2023-03-12T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T14:14:16","slug":"home-garden-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8437","title":{"rendered":"HOME &amp; GARDEN: Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6898-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6898-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6898-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6898-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6898-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6898-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not the greatest pictures, perhaps\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way home from Hannah\u2019s we stopped in at Season\u2019s Garden Centre. A new business that\u2019s recently appeared (after years of watching construction and wondering what was coming!), between Chatteris and Somersham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6900-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6900-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6900-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6900-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6900-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6900-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">But they do at least show some intent!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought five daffodil bulb sets. Every year as the daffodils come out I long for more at home, in our garden. And slowly I\u2019ve been adding to our meagre stock. But it seems to be taking forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My attempts with umbellifers, or cow parsley type plants, are faring even worse! Only the stuff nature plants flourishes. The two seed sets I\u2019ve bought have yielded naught, alas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6899-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6899-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6899-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6899-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6899-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6899-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">These King Alfred are, I think, a bit bigger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got four sets of cheaper generic <em>narcissi<\/em>, and one of a larger more expensive King Alfred variety. There are probably a similar quantity of pre-established daff\u2019s in this particular border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6902-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6902-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6902-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6902-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6902-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6902-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">These are amongst the few from previous years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t know what the little purple multi-flowers are. We\u2019ll have to Google image search \u2018em, I guess. Which Teresa has just done\u2026 grape hyacinths, apparently! Or <em>muscari armeniacum<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6903-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6903-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6903-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6903-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6903-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_6903-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I planted five new bulb sets today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Believe it or not this long thin flower bed has actually already been weeded a couple of times since xmas! Still haven\u2019t mowed any lawn. Reckon I\u2019ll wait till it gets a bit warmer first. Mind, it\u2019s warmer <em>outside<\/em> right now than it is <em>inside<\/em> our home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from Hannah\u2019s we stopped in at Season\u2019s Garden Centre. A new business that\u2019s recently appeared (after years of watching construction and wondering what was coming!), between Chatteris and Somersham. I bought five daffodil bulb sets. Every year as the daffodils come out I long for more at home, in our garden. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HOME &amp; GARDEN: Daffodils&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[224,121,80,229,89,73,90,230,231,81,67,71,122,88],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2c5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}