{"id":1136,"date":"2016-11-10T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:35:15","slug":"gibbs-gardens-daffodil-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Gibbs Gardens Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I waited for several years to visit Gibbs Gardens when the spring daffodils were blooming. March 26, 2016 was closer to the end of the season, but there were plentiful daffodils and other blooming plants to enjoy. <a title=\"Gibbs Gardens.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gibbsgardens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gibbs Gardens<\/a>, located in Ball Ground, Georgia, has one of the largest daffodil gardens in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog1.jpg\" alt=\"gazebo &amp; daffodils at gibbs gardens\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gibbs Gardens&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Daffodils appear on my blog often, and I&#8217;m excited to finally share the pics of the gardens. It softly rained from time to time that day. The white cherry blossoms and the Japanese garden were stunning. The stroll through the gardens and forest felt magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog2.jpg\" alt=\"swath of daffodils on slope\" class=\"wp-image-1187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog3.jpg\" alt=\"unknown daffodil\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog6.jpg\" alt=\"plants from Gibbs Gardens\" class=\"wp-image-1191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog6.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>What is this plant? Some type of Euphorbia I think.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog4.jpg\" alt=\"gibbsblog4\" class=\"wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog5.jpg\" alt=\"view from the top of the hill\" class=\"wp-image-1190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog5.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog5-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog7.jpg\" alt=\"side of pond Japanese Garden\" class=\"wp-image-1192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog7-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog7-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Japanese Gardens &#8211; the largest in the Nation!<a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1195\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog9.jpg\" alt=\"cypress stairstep over pond\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog9-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog9-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog10.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy White Cherry Blossoms\" class=\"wp-image-1196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog10.jpg 480w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog10-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cherry Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog12.jpg\" alt=\"View leaving the Japanese Garden\" class=\"wp-image-1198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog12.jpg 640w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/gibbsblog12-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently digging &amp; transplanting crowded daffodil bulbs in my yard, &nbsp;spacing them out, &amp; hoping they will bloom next spring. I have a post in the works about that process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I waited for several years to visit Gibbs Gardens when the spring daffodils were blooming. March 26, 2016 was closer to the end of the season, but there were plentiful daffodils and other blooming plants to enjoy. Gibbs Gardens, located in Ball Ground, Georgia, has one of the largest daffodil gardens in the world. Daffodils &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/?p=1136\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gibbs Gardens Daffodils&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,4,2,12,21,8,7],"tags":[42,43,40,29,39,41,28],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annuals","category-bulbs","category-landscapeplants","category-perennials","category-profiles","category-shrubs","category-trees","tag-cherry-trees","tag-daffodil-festival","tag-daffodils","tag-georgia","tag-gibbs-gardens","tag-japanese-garden","tag-zone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgiagalgardens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}