TDS 2008 Dallas Farmer's Market Bulb Sale Report from Keith Kridler

The Texas Daffodil Society put up an information booth at the Dallas Farmers 
Market Saturday, May 30, 2008 during one of their festivals to encourage people to come 
check out the largest fresh vegetable market in Texas.

As you can see the American Daffodil Society's information banners really 
make quite a show! Ours was the best looking out of about 30 booths on that 
side of the market building. They gave us two booths with the second 
table/booth area used as a rest area and coloring table for younger children 
and information sheets for adults that got tired of walking through the 
market areas in 90*F (33*C) temperatures!

I furnish ten free daffodil bulbs with every new membership in TDS that we 
get at these events. We got at least 9 new members. We were constantly 
teaching people or educating them that daffodils are NOT just ANOTHER yellow 
flower:-))

Erlicheer, from Australia, was the most popular daffodil with the adults.

Everyone loved the photos of n. Bulbocodium. We use an 8&1/2" by 11" (21.5 
CM X 29 CM) color photo of each variety.

When we were slow at the tables we tried to give the children a few samples 
of hardy daffodil bulbs of their choice to take home and plant to get them 
started planting SOMETHING for the very first time in their lives! Children 
were fascinated by such a big bloom coming out of a tiny bulb like n. 
Jonquilla.

We gave one young lady/girl nine different kinds of "Texas Daffodils" to 
smuggle back into Germany since she was fascinated that Daffodils could even 
grow in this Texas heat:-))

We sold a little over 350 daffodils of nine different species/cultivars, 
gave away 100 or so to children in addition to the gift bulbs with the 
memberships.

This was actually a GOOD time of the year to have an information booth 
because MANY of the people who walked up wanted to know what to do with the 
large daffodil clumps they already had in their yards! It is the PERFECT 
time to dig and divide daffodils now. It is NEVER too late to teach people 
to plant daffodils! 

Keith Kridler Mt. Pleasant, Texas

Thanks to Keith from the Texas Daffodil Society for all his efforts in supporting our bulb sale. We couldn't do it without him!