Log Barn and Wagon

I know you must think all I find on these old home places are daffodils but I have my days when it is hard to stay with the bulbs. This old barn was just great. I was taking photos of the odd Lent Lily Daffodils by where the old house once stood and this old barn was out in the field next to it. I have seen it for years but I knew it was time to get some pictures.
These old barns are on their last years and will be gone.

Standing there looking at the hand built stacked logs and the wagon you can feel the years between them and us fade away. This was a working farm and a home. This old wagon took them to town and church.
These wonderful proud Southern People that are a part of us.

Narcissus Telamonius Plenus Van Sion 1620

 

I have found this old daffodil growing on several old farms in north Louisiana. It is not as widely spread as the old Daffodil Butter and Eggs in my area but it has survived in large enough numbers to be considered one of my Southern Heirloom Farm Daffodils.

The large yellow and green blooms open from big fat green buds that are very showy. I had a clump in bud December the 29th under a large Oak Tree. The buds of this variety take the longest to open of any I have seen. I have these big green buds for 4 to 6 weeks sometimes before the bloom.

The blooms do not always open perfect but when they do they are breathtaking with their beauty. The detail of green in them will make you think of the Parrot Tulips that you see in the Dutch Bulb Catalogs. These tulips will not grow for us down here in the South but this daffodil will return faithfully every spring as it has done for generations.

This true Southern Heirloom Daffodil dates back to 1620 and is referred to as Butter and Eggs in the Tennessee region here in the South. Across most of the South we consider the multiple varieties of the Phoenix as Butter and Eggs. I have seen photos of ones listed that open with the doubling only in the trumpet. I have never found any growing here in the South. There is a lot of variation in these old daffodils and it may have been one of these picked by the Dutch growers to propagate but did not prove to be stable.

Ours here in the South are considered a form of the Lent Lily Daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus with them budding and blooming at about the same time.

I have decided a vase full of these green buds would be very elegant for a photo but it is pouring down rain this morning and it will have to wait for another day.

For more information about Southern Heirloom Bulbs or to purchase these daffodil bulbs please visit http://www.dixiebulbs.com or you can Email me at bulbhound@live.com

Daffodils in Dixie

 

      

It is Daffodil time in the South. The weather has warmed and the jonquils are in bloom. For this month brings this Southern Tradition to front stage. Southern Heirloom Daffodils will cover the old farms on long forgotten dirt roads that once were the places of hopes and dreams. This was Home to our great grandparents and their parents.

This is where I come from and these are my people. I am Home in Dixie where I belong walking in their footsteps through another glorious spring show planted before I was even born.

I grow these old old Daffodils here on my farm and offer them at http://www.dixiebulbs.com