This long cold spring had better make a turn for the better soon. TPP estimates that flowering dates are now delayed nearly two weeks from average dates. It was really cold last night, a good night for having beer & pizza with friends in a little old Italian bar/restaurant. But TPP is getting seriously depressed about spring. Today's FFF are tough little guys that handle snow and quite cold night time lows without showing any damage. And are these cheerful enough for you? This is one of the dwarf daffodil varieties, standing only 5-6 inches tall. They form large dense clumps that just beg you to divide them after a few years. They produce a lot of flowers and make a great low growing front border. Right now this is just about all our gardens have going on. They are also a nice contrast to the blue of the squills.
They are just so darned cute! Just like the kittens of the spring gardens. This particular daffodil or narcissus is only about 5-6" tall, but any variety under 10" is sort of a miniature. Here's a link to several varieties of these little ones. These (tete-a-tete) flower at about the same time as my earliest standard daffodils, but they make thick foot wide clusters in just a few years producing a large number of flowers. You got to have these in the front of your garden beds. Basically trouble free. TPP is early this week because field work tomorrow.