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Daffodils in the Classroom                     

 

March, 2007
Mary Lou Gripshover, former president of the National Daffodil Society, shared her passion for daffodils with Mrs. Konz' fourth grade class last spring.  She brought in a new variety she had hybridized and asked the class to vote on a name that she will register.  She will then provide bulbs for planting this variety on the school grounds.  The students voted to name the new variety, Tigerdil – for the orange coloring and Loveland team names.

Class Garden Coordinator, Jody Maher, shows students where the seeds will form in the daffodil.
Mary Lou Gripshover assists students as they dissect daffodils to better understand plant parts.
May 2007
Left: Mrs. Gripshover returned to the school to announce that ‘Tigerdil’ had been accepted as a new variety and was registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in Great Britain.  Since 1804, the Royal Horticultural Society has collected information about plants and has advanced horticultural practices.  In 1908, the first publication for naming cultivated plants consisted of a list of daffodil names.  We are proud to have ‘Tigerdil’ added to this registry. You can check it out here

Center:  Jody Maher, our class garden program manager coordinated the project.  With her is Tait the student that suggested the name "Tigerdil."

Right: The students give Mrs. Gripshover a huge "Thank You" card.  Then we all shared the daffodil cake Mrs. Konz' made.

October 2007
Mrs. Gripshover returned to Mrs. Konz' class with daffodil seeds and a bag full of Tigerdil bulbs.  She was accompanied by a photographer from the Cincinnati Enquirer!

The students planted some of the seeds and will watch them germinate over the winter.  They were amazed to learn that they would probably be in high school before the bulbs that developed from the seeds were large enough to produce flowers.  She also brought a few other daffodils that she cut in half so the students could see the new flowers forming inside. 

Click on the photos below to enlarge.

Then we went out to the gardens where we planted Tigerdil bulbs in some of the flower beds in front of the elementary school. 
 

 
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."  Robert Louis Stevenson
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