Start Off With These Daffodils

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Supposing you are planting daffodil bulbs for the first time this fall. If you are living in a new home, you may not yet have decided where your gardens will be located.

Chances are that the front of your house has been landscaped and that other shrub groupings are in, or at least soon will be. 

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You then have an easy solution to the problem of where to plant daffodils this fall (even if your exact garden spot hasn’t been picked), for shrubs make a perfect background for practically all spring-blooming bulbs.

The photograph above shows a dozen short cup daffodils or narcissus flowering against an azalea, also in bloom.

Such a group of daffodils (select varieties from the following collection) could well be planted against other shrubs, particularly evergreens.

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  1. What Daffodils To Order?

What Daffodils To Order?

There are several different kinds now, as well as hundreds of varieties. The sum of $13 is a good one to start a daffodil collection.

For approximately that amount, you can count on acquiring the following varieties, generally available from the most reliable bulb dealers.

  • TRUMPETS (The funnel-like center of the flower is called a trumpet, and the surrounding petals are the perianth): 
  • 12 AEROLITE (large, yellow, fragrant, and long-lasting); 
  • 6 BEERSHEBA (ivory white trumpet, pure white perianth – choice and beautiful): 
  • MRS. R. O. BACKHOUSE (This first of the so-called “pink” daffodils, while not exactly pink, is lovely and different enough. Perianth is white, trumpet a soft apricot pink. Fragrant); 
  • 6 MOUNT HOOD (This is a scrumptious variety well worth its slightly higher twice. Trumpet opens primrose yellow but soon turns to white. Very large).
  • LARGE-CUPPED (In this division, the center of the flower is more like a cup or crown: 
  • 12 DUKE OF WINDSOR (deep yellow crown. white perianth. Large, handsome).
  • DOUBLE: 12 CHEERFULNESS (Three or four fragrant flowers to stem, creamy white with yellow touches).
  • TRIANDRUS HYBRIDS: THALIA (Clusters of drooping white flowers on tall 12-inch stems make this unusual variety a gent among narcissus.)

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