There’s something so lovely about a daffodil. They are so welcoming and so joyful, and so totally appropriate for Spring.
One of the lovely things about this garden is the sheer variety of daffodil-like flowers that appear at this time of year. I think there are about ten types of narcissi out there. I don’t know the names of any of them as I owe them all to my predecessor here.
As soon as one type has ‘gone over’ another pops up and so they continue for a few weeks. They grow in the flower beds in the front garden, on the lawn and the banks in the back garden as above, and at the back and front of the house.
I’ve just had a good rummage about at Peter Nyssen and found that I have a pretty good cross section of the different types available. Had to log out of there quickly before I bought something…
The ones I find the least successful are those that are really fancy – double headed cream-coloured ones – in the picture below, with their second flower not yet open. They look a bit washed out compared to their brighter, more exuberant cousins but it could also be that they are planted where they look a little lost in the bare earth of a bed not yet colonised by alchemilla mollis and strawberries.
At this time of year, I buy a bunch of daffodils almost every time I leave the house if I’m not in the country. They are just so cheerful that I want to fill every room with them.
The ones at the bottom look like Thalia which I have a lot of. They are lovely massed together but they do need some contrast. Mine work best in great clumps interspersed with clumps of February Gold. I love the Pheasant’s Eye you have in the top picture with the red rimmed centre. I have it on my list for putting in this autumn!
That’s one of my favourites, as well. I should look them all up. So lazy!
Aren’t they lovely? The pink centred one is unusual and pretty.