My Daffodils Are In Bloom!

Photo by Tyla MacAllister copyright 2009

These Tete-a-Tete daffodil blooms surprised me yesterday as I was doing some yard chores. I actually thought these daffodils had perished so seeing their pretty little faces really made my day.


You may have noticed in some of the photos I've posted that my garden looks a little disheveled. Well,it is and there's a reason for it in addition to my laziness.

Warning: Meteorology Lesson


In January of 2008 we were hit by a severe thunderstorm that blew down two very old pine trees that were on the western side of the flower bed. The meteorologic term for the weather event that brought those trees down is a microburst. A microburst is a violent burst of air from a thunderstorm that causes damage similar to a tornado. The winds do not rotate like the ones from a tornado though.

The Gory Aftermath

Anyway, the trees and the power lines came down. The top of the tallest pine tree was driven like a spear right into the middle of the flower bed almost three feet deep. The other one ended up about two feet away from the car. It took several days for my husband to extract the tree tops from the ground. Most of the daffodil bulbs in the center of the garden were killed. This is a flower bed that I had been tending since 1995.That's a pretty big chunk of my life.

The Tete-a-Tetes were in a long swath at the front of the flower bed. I planted 100 of them in 2002. They multiplied and bloomed faithfully every February until the storm. Most of them were destroyed by the tree but I replanted a few of the survivors. None of them produced shoots or blooms last year so I assumed they had passed on.

Surprise

Then on Valentine's Day my little Tete-a-Tetes returned.

That's what I love about growing flowers especially flowering bulbs. Every once in a while you get to witness what can only be described as a miracle.