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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Daffodils!

If there's one bulb to plant in your garden, it should be daffodils!

Yellow-blooming Daffodils
Daffodils!

Why? Rabbits and deer don't eat them.  They are available in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors -- not just the common yellow trumpets, not that those aren't fabulous!!

Here's a few examples of the varieties we have in our gardens.  We just adore these flowers and desperately need to see them in the spring!


Daffodils - White with peach center

Double-yellow flowered daffodil



Trumpet yellow daffodils


Oh, and did we mention that daffodils come back reliably every year? And they multiply over time, so one bulb will grow to many bulbs?  Oh yeah, and they make great cut flowers!!  What's not to like?

We also adore Narcissus, which are in the Daffodil family. These have incredible fragrance. The common "paper whites" that we start indoors in the winter are Narcissus.  They are similar to Daffodils in appearance, but the fragrance puts them in a whole different category.  Be sure to plant some Narcisuss, too!

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