PESO: Paper White
I plan to force some paper white narcissus to bring the feeling of early
spring into the house:
http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2021/3/7/paper-white
K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
Comments, criticisms. suggestions and abuse are all invited and welcome.
Dan Matyola
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
On Mar 6, 2021, at 9:27 PM, Daniel J. Matyola danmatyola@gmail.com wrote:
I plan to force some paper white narcissus to bring the feeling of early
spring into the house:
http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2021/3/7/paper-white
K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited
Comments, criticisms. suggestions and
abuse are all invited and welcome.
You’re doing that with your narcissus because you don’t know how to force your tulips?
--
Larry Colen
lrc@red4est.com
Thanks, Larry. I knew I could count on you! I'm too old to force my
tulips on anyone.
Paperwhites are the traditional bulbs for indoor forcing.
I Love tulips, but usually buy some potted from our local nursery for
Easter and Mother's Day. At our first home (after the MOQs) we grew quite
a number and variety of tulips along our front walk. That was in a more
developed part of town, and before the local deer herds exploded. We
planted lots of them when we moved here, but tulip flowers are the absolute
favorite food of deer, and they made short work of them. I even tried
planting a few behind the fencing I use to protect our few rose bushes, but
that resulted only in a battered fence.
Years ago, we went to visit the explosion of spring bulbs at Keukenhof, in
the Netherlands. What an incredible display they put on there! We joked
at the tulip bulbs they were selling, referring to them as "deer food."
They also sold unpainted wooden tulips, and I decided it would be fun to
get some of those to sick in the ground and amaze the neighbors. I bought
a dozen, brought them home, mounted them on 1/8 in dowels, painted them
bright spring colors, and applied two coats of varnish to make them weather
resistant. I "planted" these wooden tulips along our front yard, to add a
bit of color where there was little after daffodil season, The next
morning, all the wooden tulips were lying scattered on the ground. The
deer, tempted by the shape and colors of their favorite treat, had bitten
each off, and then of course spit out the inedible wood. That is how
strongly they are attracted to tulips.
So now I enjoy a few hothouse pots of tulips, indoors, each spring, and
remember my wooden decoys. But for indoor forcing, paperwhites are both
traditional and easier.
*https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery *
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 1:40 AM Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com wrote:
You’re doing that with your narcissus because you don’t know how to force
your tulips?
Larry Colen
lrc@red4est.com
Am 07.03.21 um 13:45 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:
Paperwhites are the traditional bulbs for indoor forcing.
Just looked up what paperwhites are and found that in German they're
called Weihnachts-Narzisse... christmas narcissus.
A bit late, isn't it?
Ralf
--
Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Web : http://www.fotoralf.de
Here they are used more in early spring than at Christmas time.
Dan Matyola
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:22 AM Ralf R Radermacher fotoralf@gmx.de wrote:
Am 07.03.21 um 13:45 schrieb Daniel J. Matyola:
Paperwhites are the traditional bulbs for indoor forcing.
Just looked up what paperwhites are and found that in German they're
called Weihnachts-Narzisse... christmas narcissus.
A bit late, isn't it?
Ralf
--
Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Web : http://www.fotoralf.de
%(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List
To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and
follow the directions.
Amazing. Wooden tulips from Keukenhof consumed by deer.
You could try steel tulips.
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 13:45, Daniel J. Matyola danmatyola@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Larry. I knew I could count on you! I'm too old to force my
tulips on anyone.
Paperwhites are the traditional bulbs for indoor forcing.
I Love tulips, but usually buy some potted from our local nursery for
Easter and Mother's Day. At our first home (after the MOQs) we grew quite
a number and variety of tulips along our front walk. That was in a more
developed part of town, and before the local deer herds exploded. We
planted lots of them when we moved here, but tulip flowers are the absolute
favorite food of deer, and they made short work of them. I even tried
planting a few behind the fencing I use to protect our few rose bushes, but
that resulted only in a battered fence.
Years ago, we went to visit the explosion of spring bulbs at Keukenhof, in
the Netherlands. What an incredible display they put on there! We joked
at the tulip bulbs they were selling, referring to them as "deer food."
They also sold unpainted wooden tulips, and I decided it would be fun to
get some of those to sick in the ground and amaze the neighbors. I bought
a dozen, brought them home, mounted them on 1/8 in dowels, painted them
bright spring colors, and applied two coats of varnish to make them weather
resistant. I "planted" these wooden tulips along our front yard, to add a
bit of color where there was little after daffodil season, The next
morning, all the wooden tulips were lying scattered on the ground. The
deer, tempted by the shape and colors of their favorite treat, had bitten
each off, and then of course spit out the inedible wood. That is how
strongly they are attracted to tulips.
So now I enjoy a few hothouse pots of tulips, indoors, each spring, and
remember my wooden decoys. But for indoor forcing, paperwhites are both
traditional and easier.
*https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery
https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery *
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 1:40 AM Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com wrote:
You’re doing that with your narcissus because you don’t know how to force
your tulips?Larry Colen
lrc@red4est.com
--
%(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List
To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Am 07.03.21 um 15:42 schrieb Toine:
You could try steel tulips.
...and connect them to an electric fencer. That should teach them.
Ralf
--
Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Web : http://www.fotoralf.de
Some animals, notably Elephants, enjoy electric fences!
Alan C
On 07-Mar-21 05:01 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 07.03.21 um 15:42 schrieb Toine:
You could try steel tulips.
...and connect them to an electric fencer. That should teach them.
Ralf
--
Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Web : http://www.fotoralf.de
%(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List
To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and
follow the directions.
https://app.box.com/s/k08lmtjuzd2b7hc5gxlo47hgawbzvyra
-p
On 3/7/2021 9:01 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 07.03.21 um 15:42 schrieb Toine:
You could try steel tulips.
...and connect them to an electric fencer. That should teach them.
Ralf
--
Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany
Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com
Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf
Web : http://www.fotoralf.de
%(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List
To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and
follow the directions.
--
Paul Sorenson
Studio1941
Sooner or later "different" scares people.