Your Favorite Daffodil for Naturalizing?

Hi, everybody--

Time to go through the bulb catalogs and pick out some new daffodils--so---

I am wondering what your favorite daffodils for naturalizing are? Van Engelen's offers several suggestions to get me started--but was wondering about your success tips.

http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=6514&_category=Website%20Specials

I have a part sun/part shade swath of grass in the back yard that could use some spring color-- any other ideas?

No question here: The species Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Nice casual form, neither too short nor tall, blooms early-ish, multiplies well and comes true from seed and has grown well for me from light spring shade to full sun. Stole my heart this year!

Robert.

http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/101756/

looks like the perfect solution! Thank you. I'll put some on order.

I am getting Thalia for the first time this year. :-) They'll all go in a friend's garden.

Like I said before, piti, can I be your friend?!

Thalia is a lovely one and I have it under my dogwood for a nice combo with some little blue bulbs..

Yes, of course, tabasco. :-)

You are welcome to anything in my garden----if I can manage to dig them up, that is. I 've tried to dig up bulbs several times these past couple years with difficulty. They are so stuffed and deep in the ground that I gave up. I might just close my eyes and dig them up. They need to be thinned out very badly. I am serious. Come help me this fall or next spring. won't you? :-)

Well, I will be in Chicago the weekend of September 8! LOL I might bring my shovel!

Ok you 2, jealousy is getting the better of me!

tabasco - Erichleer naturalizes very nicely and is a double fragrant white. The last 2 yrs I've been adding almost all dwarfs because our weather is so unpredictable that time of year I'm just tired of seeing all the daffs knocked over and dirty from splashed dirt. I really like Tete-a-tete, in fact I put another 100 in last yr. Its about 10" tall, very upright and lasts a long time. When I dug into the previous yrs bulbs there were lots that had naturalized into clumps.

I have a friend who naturalized Rip Van Winkle all thru the lawn - thats a double dwarf. She says its the best naturalizer she's found.

tabasco,
WIll you have time to meet a fellow gardener? :-) Have you visited the Lurie Garden? It's getting prettier, and prettier. Gorgeous right now.

Bring an empty car if you like. :-) I'll load it up with stuffs. Seriously. Aly, you can come too. :-)
Son is off to college next week so I'll be free. lol. Dmail me if interested.

My autumn bulb order list is getting longer and longer. I was trying to keep it modest and conservative, but I can't resist the suggestions!

Piti-- thank you for the enticing invitation--my kids are back to college too and we could really do some damage, but I must regret (for right now, at least!-- DH will be with me on the trip and he tends to not share my enthusiasm for a good dig!) Look for my d-mail and we can arrange another time I hope!

t, I have N.pseudonarcissus naturalized all over the place and can send you as many as you'd like, so save your $ for other goodies! I'm about to pack some up for Kenton, so no problem to dig a few extras (by a few, I mean a shovel full can be as many as 50 bulbs!). While very simple little daffs, they're always the first to bloom, and a most welcome site in spring. Since they bloom when it's cool, the flowers last well too. I've noticed when I divide a naturalized clump, they don't bloom very heavy the first spring, but after that, watch out- they go crazy!

Have you tried N. 'Geranium'? It naturalizes well for me and blooms late. If you plant several it fills the air with wonderful fragrance too.

Gem, thanks so much. I would love to try out pseudonarcissus this fall. I'll send you a d-mail to find out what you would like in return.

alyrics, I think Tête-à-tête is adorable.
At the moment my gardens are in such poor shape (for a number of reasons) and I had decided not to invest any time or money into adding plants. But now you all are talking about bulbs and I feel envious.

Missg - I am holding the first meeting of the 'Refraining From Adding Plants till we Get Our Gardens Back In Order Lonely Hearts Club' immediately. You are more than welcome to join me since I seem to be about the only one who is trying to pedal backward on the plant list.

Refreshments will be served, beverages of your choice.

LOL alyrics! I love it- lonely hearts because you see lists of what everybody's ordering and utmost restraint is 'a lonely road' hehe. Who'd a thought plants could be like cocain!

I've seen pics of lovely, naturalized wafts of 'Mt. Hood' and a naturalized planting of them at The Lexington Cemetary underplanted with Virginia bluebells. Gorgeous, and I've got to copy it, but, my Mt. Hoods seem to bloom with less vigor as years go by (more so than other crowded daffs). Anyone else experience this with 'Mt.Hood' ? Wonder if they should be planted further apart initially? Any thoughts?

Gem and Missg

I did just ask my nursery to get me 2 more Salvia Marcus - a dwarf. And I went and got 9 mums to plant for fall. So I'm breaking my rules already.
I just love VA Bluebells. Luv them. Those amazing photos of misty mornings and endless sweeps of bluebells among leafless trees are so inspiring. Then I see something else thats cool and forget that if you plant a bunch more stuff in there you don't get endless sweeps. I got a couple VA BB's last yr that had gone dormant so next spring I hope to see them bloom, then I'll have to see where to plant them out. I did really cut back this year on plants altho I picked up - this was just too good to pass up -quart pots of Hakone Grass, a Chinese variegated ginger, and a saxifrage for a dollar apiece on a sale table.

taking it easy!A

I'm getting Thalia because it's supposed to be good in Z9. got from B&B

A, my Va.bluebells completely dissappear when they go dormant- I thought they had died when I first saw this. And I saw little seedlings from them around the spot, so with some patience hopefully we'll both be seeing large drifts of them in a few years:) Some great deals you got too!

Nery, you'll love 'Thalia'- so fragrant and graceful, one of my favorites. The ones I planted at my mother's house have been blooming reliably without dividing for 25 years.

"Carlton" is a great large daffodil that naturalizes well. Simple form but large and showy!

I couldn't believe how big Carlton was when I first grew it.