Daffodils: Part 2!

'Bridal Crown' has been long lasting, and is wonderfully fragrant!

'Hawerwa' has become one of my favorites:

'Hillstar'

Several of the pinks have been putting on a show too. I posted pics of them on this thread where we've been discussing pink daffs:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/828377/

Nice ones Neal, Bridal Crown looks to be doing well, and I see you have hosts in leaf, mine are just starting! I really like Precocious (on the pink thread).

Barbie Doll has opened, it has a lovely strong scent which I hadn't noticed until I put it in the sun. A big pot fell on them and bent them over, not broken but not stood either! The tree is leafing out so they were shaded.

That's a lovely vivid orange/red rim. Very nice Wallaby!

Neal - I can't decide which I love more - hawera or thalia.

Thanks, Janet! All 3 of those clumps of Bridal Crown were among the bulbs I couldn't get in the ground before it got too cold, so they spent the winter potted in the basement. 2 were potted and rooting when I received some more bulbs as a gift, so that last clump to get potted is behind the others.

Barbie Doll is a beauty!

Tammy, Thalia is another of my all time favs. Guess my favorite is whichever one I'm looking at at the moment, LOL.

...or in this case, can smell at the moment. 'Geranium' smells as good as it looks!

You have a lovely collection of Daffs, Neal, specially like the 'Hawera'!
I wonder if 'Barbie Doll' has some N.poeticus 'blood' Wallaby?

It was a nice surprise to find out that the largest amount of the mix I bought as Specie-Narcissus bulbs turned out to be N.poeticus.
They look a little different than the one I bought as N.poeticus 'Dreamlight'.
The petals turn more backwards and they are slightly smaller. They smell delicious!

One of them has two flowers on one stem;

And my feeling was right about the ones I thought being 'Hawera' being a different type, they were belonging to the Specie-mix, because the true 'Hawera' has opened its first flowers yesterday, and the petals do turn backwards;

Ice Follies and Fortissimo

...and Tahiti

had one lone NOID bloom this morning. it is kinda cute!

tracie

Kaydee

Amazing! I'm going to look for a picture of my Rumplestiltkins...

Beautiful photos everyone. My plain yellow daffs have been blooming for a couple weeks now. These pink and white ones are just getting started. Isn't Spring great?
Susan

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Those are all so pretty. Daffs are my very favorite, but haven't grown a lot. Do they have to be in full sun and do you have beds just for them.?

Have to tell you about this. There was a lady moved here from Holland back in the late 1880's (I think, anyway long long time ago.) She brought daffodils with her. After she died, the property stayed empty, but the family kept it so no one has lived there since .
It's a tourist attraction now, must be 100,000 or more daffs. I've been there a lot but never took a pic. Will have to next year. It just takes your breath awy when they are in full bloom.

Lorraine, I'd love to see that place! It could be a good resource for you if the varieties are named, so you could know without guessing which ones perform best in your area. Daffs like sun, but many (early flowering varieties especially) do well under deciduous trees, getting the sun they need before the trees leaf out. In deep shade repeat flowering is diminished. I use some naturalized in lawn areas, but most are in mixed beds. I like other plants around them that hide the dying leaves after they bloom, which need to be left on till they yellow to manufacture food for next years bloom.

Susan, glad to see you're getting blooms! Looking forward to seeing pics of your gorgeous garden this season!

Hi, Lorraine! I read on-line about a planting idea to have daffodils and daylilies share the same garden space, and am trying it this year. The daylilies are still just little tufts of foliage while the daffs are blooming, but then they get bigger and fuller and hide the yellowing daff foliage. You also have staggered blooming, so there is something going for a longer period. I am trying it in back, but put it in front of a row of peonies, then a row of gladiolus, and I also threw in a bunch of tulips and minor bulbs like scilla and muscari. It has made washing dishes more tolerable, as I can at least look out the window and see something other than the weeds in my untilled veggie garden!

Now, if I could just get the dog to stop tearing through and knocking the petals off. . .
Angie

Angie

I am doing that in my front window box which is 16ft by 2 1/2 ft. My Daffodils are blooming now and my Route Sixty Six Daylilies are about 4 to 6 inchs tall.

SueME

The daffs here have already stopped blooming. They bloom late March and early April. Do they bloom every year. I have some that didn't bloom this year. They did last year tho.

I know nothing about bulbs, so I decided the smart thing to do was run a co op with daffs!! LOL Anyway, one we had on the list is the solame, so I will take it off.
If any of you have pictures of your beds, could you maybe show some of us bulb newbies?

I'm going to get brave and plant the lilies and glads. Also, when can you move them to diff spot? I've aactually ordered a couple books, so maybe I'll learn something and not sound so ignorant!!

Daffodils, muscari, and daylilies do keep coming up,and in fact will keep multiplying to fill in the gaps. When they start to get crowded, you can dig them up and divide them.

Unfortunately, tulips and hyacinths only last a year or two (usually, especially in hot areas). Mine in IL are great the first year, smaller the second year, and kinda puny and twisted by the third year. Too bad they don't last forever, too.

I'm a newbie, too, but I'm learning lots this year! Bulbs are my favorites; I just NEED all that color after the cold and grey of winter!

The peonies were here when we moved in (about 25 total!), and last fall I added the daffs, tulips, daylilies, and a mixed pack of "minor bulbs," in front. The dirt strip in between is where the gladiolus are, but they haven't come up yet. I think they bloom later than the peonies, so hope it won't look strange to have them taller than the peony bushes. I will probably put them somewhere different next year, assuming I get them dug this fall--I prefer "plant 'em and forget 'em" flowers, but my MIL bought them for my two DS's, and we wanted to stick them in the ground quick before she came over. I KNEW she would ask if we'd planted them. . .

Wish the peonies hadn't all been in a straight row. Somehow the "soldierly rows" don't give the effect I always hope for! I want to add some more curved lines and make it a little more "shapely."

Hope you don't mind that I turned your photo right side up!

Crud, thought I'd rotated that picture! It looked right in the preview. . .

Let me try again with another.

Great bed, though I see what you mean about soldiers. Are you planning to put anything in the middle, or just let the peonies get big... I love the colors you have together.

We planted a bunch of gladiolus between the bulbs and the peonies, though now I'm hoping they don't get knocked over as the peonies get big, and the daylilies spread out. Thinking back, those peonies were almost touching the area where we planted the daylilies and bulbs last fall. Hmm. I guess we'll see what happens! I do want to plant the glads somewhere different next year, though I'm hoping the peonies will help as a windbreak.

Any glad growers out there? This is my first time, and I'm wondering if they need to be staked. I know my mom and grandma both grew them, but as a child didn't pay much attention to things like that.

Here are some more bulbs in front of my house (the others are backyard.) Didn't know if I'd like the purple and red together, but have decided I do!

mixed bed with: yellow and white Dutch iris, snaps and Pink Pride Daffs

tracie

Lorraine--you mean Miss Helen's Place, right? It is amazing..a great weekend day trip!
http://www.daffodilgarden.com/daffodils_home.htm

=)

Those are all so pretty. That's what I can't do, put things together that look pretty. I also tend to want to put things in rows. I just almost can't do anything else. Last year I put stuff kind of random and soon as they started coming up, I started moving all the same things together. Determined to keep my hands off this year.

Yes, that's exactly what is. Cool. Good to know someone else who knows how pretty it is. I missed it this year, (tears running down my face) I've never seen the website either!!

I had a restaurant in town there and you could always tell when the daffs were blooming. Town filled up

daughter of an all white NOID mother bulb, cup is half white and half yellow

i tend to fill up every square inch of dirt! that gets me into trouble though because stuff starts to grow into each other. i tried really hard to plant all these bulbs in "bouquets" of at least 9 to 30 bulbs. i have always done the row thing myself. i finally realized that they make more of an impact if they are grouped together.

tracie

your NOID may be Ice Follies. they bloom white with a yellow cup and the yellow fades to almost white over a few days.

tracie

Ice Follies

I will keep and eye on it. It opened that color.

I did plant some stuff in clumps this year, although my brain was screaming nooooooo.
Found some daffs growing wild on this old road no ones drives much. Dug up as much as I could fit in the car, and I planted them in the clumps they were already in, so didn't have to have any imagination.!!! Hope they look good next year.

Sunshine on one of my daffs today

oh lovely pic. looks like a sea creature.

Love tulips.

Me too! Wish they were re-bloomers!

Lovely tulips. And that white daffodil with the light coming through is beautiful, too.

We just transplanted a lot of big yellow daffodils today to another part of the yard. Do you think any will survive? I've never moved daffs 'in the green' before...