Alas,
despite this being the second flowering baby daffodil, it too has
suffered similar fate to its early brother - and been munched. Who or
what ate it I do not know. Apart from birds, we get other peoples'
pet-cats, hedgehogs, mice, and occasionally a squirrel or fox, so...
However,
the pallid daffodils in the front yard were doing much better on my
return from a mid-March weekend in Paris. they are flowering well
among the cut down hedge, bramble, and weed clippings. Two days after
this shot, they were mostly all out - at least a dozen or more of
them.
A
few days after the former shot, the smaller brighter dills were
budding without being munched. In front of them, the fatter shoots
are hopefully of the flowering onion bulbs I transferred last year.
One
of my first outdoor tasks after returning from my trip, was to tidy
up the yards. In the front, I cut brambles, trimmed hedges, snipped
ivy, and then got to work in the back yard. As you can see, beyond
the mini hedge, mint and strawberry patch, lies a bed of garlic - 2
of which were planted later 2014 and are big plants, the rest planted
2015 have yet to surface.
Beyond
that are 4 mooli and the remnants of a clump of chives. 2-3 chives
are still alive and so I am hopeful the whole bunch will rejuvenate
in a week or two. meanwhile, I dug over the next section of plot and
scattered seeds of edible Calendula and mooli radish in the hope the
warm spell would last.
There
is also a 'something' further along - but I am not sure if it is a
garlic, onion, leek, daffodil, or snowdrop until it gets bigger...
