January 15, 2010

had a mission

having completed daffodil planting a few months ago, CG just now discovered his intended 'daffodil mission' for Spring 2010 (as stated in his blog posting of April 2009) :

1. establish a few mass plantings of same type daffs (of the Carlton and Bravoure variety)
2. establish more isolated groupings of different varieties (at least 6)

and the results:
missed completely on #1
half-credit on #2 (planted about 3 isolated groupings)

the excuses:
was focused mainly on the yellow/yellow mixed variety plantings in the forsythia bed
tried to fill-in spotty areas of existing beds, rather than take-on new areas with mass plantings of daffodils
areas for mass plantings of daffodils need to be prepped and ready by mid Sept. (by the time CG was done planting the forsythia bed, it was too late to tackle new areas for daffodils)