Time to show off those daffodils!

These lovely doubles were among the surprise bulbs from the ol' home place. Any ideas what they may be?

Another bloom, and a bit clearer:

Suzy, can't wait to see yours!

Really nice daffy's ya'll! Keep 'em coming! Daff season over down here (at least at my place I've only got a jonquil still blooming) so I'm really enjoying these!

A lot of beauties here!

Fortissimo, I only had 5 in a pot and 2 of those were wrong, but pretty, now I don't know where I put them, this is the only one flowered.

I love spring

Thanks, Illoquin, for the IDs on my little show daffs. Sorry to hear my "Uncle Duncan" is poorly colored but I see what you mean after looking at the pic on this page.

http://mailorderplants4me.com/early_show04.html

I love daffs the first sign of spring for me. There's an old homeplace close by that has millions and I do mean millions of daffs around it. Someone burnt the old house down for meaniness years back. Sinc then the daffs have spread like crazy. We ask the owner if it was ok to get a few of them. She said I could get everyone of them if I wanted to. I now have two big beds of yellow single and double daffs.
I love them because they are the first flowers to bloom here. It's cool enough to dig and transplant them. As of now I only have the yellow and some white ones.
The white ones have'nt bloomed yet. I got them at an old home also. Have to go and get me a few more of them before it grows up. Here is a pic of one of the beds. I dug these up last spring and transplanted them.
Winni

Gem, could your lovely double white be 'Madison' or 'Manly'?

I got my B & B catalog out and my order lists and am trying to ID some of the unknowns around the garden.

Winnie--you are really lucky to have such a great source for old daffodils!

Gem-- do you recognize these primroses?

Oh, the primroses! They're lovely in your garden. I'll have to look up Madison, not familiar with that one. In the catalogs Manly often looks soft yellow, but I have not seen it in person. I don't think this is Manly because I bought them about 25 years ago, before I recall seeing Manly offered much. Meant to mention earlier, you'll be amazed with the increase of the Lent lilies next year. Blooms often seem a little sparse the first year after division, but they crank 'em out after that.

Janet, I love Fortissimo! I planted 9 last fall (sent Kenton 1), and they're only now 2" tall. All my new daffs are way behind, but coming along. Since our days have been so warm, the blooms are'nt lasting as long as usual, so I think I'll really appreciate all the newbies coming along later. Still waiting for my first peak at Silent Valley, Stainless, Sentinal, Lorikeet, Billy Graham, Katie Heath, Fragrant Rose, and a couple of others I can't think of right now.

Although I can never choose an absolute favorite flower, I can say Daffs are it right now. A couple of weeks ago it was crocus, in a few weeks it will be species tulips, but right now, Narcissus wins, LOL.

Ice Follies (I think)

forced then planted out last year or the year before

Some daffodils growing in a Georgia forest early this month,

Okay, I finally got my pictures out of the camera and onto my computer. The pictures aren't great, and the flower quality is poor because of the hot weather.

Here is one of my absolute favorite daffodils, 'Geometrics'

Suzy

Here is one you can find at B&B named 'Rapture' it is a Triple Crown winner -- a Wister Award for a fantastic garden flower, an AGM (Award of Garden Merit) from the RHS, a top show flower and all around wunderkid. It may have won the Pannill Award as a show flower, I don't remember, but it is a winner at every show across the country.

The style with the flyback petals is called "Cyclamineus" for obvious reasons. There is a species miniature daffodil named Narcissus cyclamineus which would normally be one of the parents, or I suppose grandparents. People either love or hate this style, but the one thing they all have in common is early bloom.

Suzy

Here's 'Rapture' in a clump in the garden, but it is all flopped over from the heavy winds. I dont think the stems are as good as last year because of the shredding hail we had in 2006 and once again, the heat he last week or 10 days.

Suzy

They're just a memory here now, gemini, but all that you said about Ice Follies is true.

What a dependable beauty!

This is partly why the daffodils all look so bad this year. This was taken last year (2006) in the middle of bloom season. Foliage was shredded beyond belief from this hail storm and never recovered. I think it was worse than a hard freeze for the plants.

Suzy

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This is 'Pink Tango' from Mitsch Novelty Daffodils in Canby, Oregon.

This is 'Oregon Beauty', also from Mitsch. It is the earliest double here that blooms with a stem that can support it and has no green on the backs of the petals.

Suzy

Here's my backyard -- I am not nearly at full bloom yet. The green house is in the middle of the yard to get as much sun as possible, but the high winds made it necessary to put those white guy wire style ropes on it. Kinda ruins any picture I will take in the next 4 weeks or so. :(

This garden is in sections. I harvest bulbs every 3 years. The plants closest to the camera were recently harvested and recently planted back, and as you get farther away, the bulbs have been down longer. Every daffodil has a name marker both above ground and below ground.

Suzy

This is my Australia and NZ bed in the front yard, but way off to the side. It actually goes way off to the left of the picture, but I didn't get it from that angle I guess.

I started planted inthe NZ/Aus bulbs over there because the soil was so nice, but mostly because the bulbs imported from the southern hemisphere have to be kept cool over our summer the first year they are here (because the bulbs think it's winter). When we get the bulbs in spring, they think it's fall and it's time to root.

The Antipodal daffodils bloom really, really early and I'm past peak on them. I was told it's because they have aphids? or some sort of piercing sucking insects that come out earlier than they do here and transmit virus from flower to flower (bulb to bulb/plant to plant) They want to get the flowers up, bloomed and their 6 weeks of post bloom chlorophyll senthesis out of the way before the nasties come out.

I gave Tabasco a hard time about her poorly colored 'Uncle Duncan', but I have a whole garden of them. I htink this is 'Torridon', but I honestly can't say because it is that unrecognizeable in this awful color. It should be a bright red-orange cup.

Here is 'On Target'

This is 'Pink Glacier'

I forgot the name of this one...on the tip of my tongue so to speak, but I can't come up with it!

This is a picture of half of an entry exhibit I had from last year. This is what the daffodils are supposed to look like, but until next week when the weather cools down, I guess we (in the midwest) are stuck with the thin-stemmed, colorless little things that are out now.

jmorth, your Ice Follies are very pretty with the Bishops Weed. The naturalized beauty you found in GA is lovely too.

Suzy, Thanks so much for sharing some of your special goodies! Geometrics is awesome, and both of the pinks have me drooling. I love the cyclamineus class too. Keep 'em coming!

tabasco, I just remembered, I think the one of yours with white petals and yellow, doubled cup may be Ice King, which I believe is a sport of Ice Follies.

Here are some Salome I planted at the edge of the woods with Dutchmans Breeches to naturalize.

I have no recollection of ever having seen this one before! I do like it though :)

Thanks, gem, yes, my double does look like "Ice King". It must have come in one of my double mixes.

Illoquin, thanks for sharing pics of your show daffs and your garden. What a daffodil haven you have created!

BTW, can you tell us the names of the daffs in your exhibition pic? What an entry! Pretty spectacular!

Someone I traded with last year sent me a box of mixed daffodils. I wasn't smart enough to record who sent me what, so whoever you are, thank you. Now, if you are out there, what in the name of saint spirea is this? This one has 5 buds on the scape:

Here are some other from the same batch

This is my favorate one: Narcissus Thalia
a group of them:

and a close-up :

bonitin, Thalia are one of my favourites too!

I took some pics as it was getting dark

They take so well against a darkening sky.

I have just one Replete left, if it wasn't so top heavy, laid on the ground, and I could view it from the front I would say this one is the best Replete I have ever seen!

I have just one Avena left.

And my one flowering Fortissimo, against the evening sky. I've been having fun!