The official sign of spring at the Fairegarden each year is the blooming of the daffodils, specifically the very early Narcissus pseudonarcissus. This prolific naturalizer came with the property and has been spread to every bed, for the bloom time is two weeks ahead of all others and is the most welcome of sights after gazing for months at the mind numbing dreary shades of winter. A post was written about that spreading last year, click here-Here, There And Everywhere to view it. Spring arrived late this year making the daff bloom parade that much more appreciated. A page of the spring bulbs titled Plants We Grow-Spring Bulbs is under construction and will be available for year around clicking on the sidebar listing. The goal is to have an image of each flower, with emphasis on the daffodils, the most numerous bulbs growing here. Shall we begin?
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
N. ‘Jetfire’
N. ‘Little Gem’
N. ‘Van Sion’
N. ‘Ice Follies’
N. ‘Mount Hood’
N. ‘Pink Pride’
N. ‘Audubon’
N. ‘Lorikeet’
N. ‘Scarlet Gem’
N. ‘Salome’
N. ‘Tahiti’
N. ‘Gentle Giant’
N. ‘Red Hill’
N. ‘Geranium’
N. ‘Limbo’
N. ‘Fidelity’
N. ‘Angel Eyes’ (Poeticus type) This is not the right name, name unknown
N. bulbocodium ‘Golden Bells’
N. ‘Cheerfulness’
N. ‘Sinopel’
N. ‘Actaea’
N. ‘Yellow Cheerfulness’
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The remaining varieties will be added to this post and the page as they are captured on pixels. They will also be included in another post if the editor deems it to be so. What often happens is a drastic warming of temperatures come April that shortens the spring bulb season. Several of the latest daffs to bloom have never had a portrait made. Perhaps this year will be the one to showcase them all. The utmost effort will be made to do just that. Focus, Frances, focus.
For more words about the daffodils growing here, check out these previous posts from the archives:
Daffodil Hit Parade-Mid Season Blooms 2008
Late Daffs, The End Of An Era 2008
Here, There And Everywhere2009
Some Bulbs 2009
Frances
Fairegarden 
Wonderful, Beautiful, Adorable, Lovely, Great… and then I ran out of words “lol” / kram gittan
Frances, you have a lovely show of daffodils and a great variety. I don’t have many tall daffodils in my garden, but they are all around so I grow the smaller ones. At least their leaves are not so obvious as they die down. I really must plant a lot more dwarf daffodils this year – I say that every year though I have some in pots!
Best wishes Sylvia (England)
WSU, Washington State’s agricultural college, did a study once on Daffodil foliage. The ones that had their foliage cut off six weeks after bloom did as well or better than those that had the foliage fully ripened. Six weeks is about the time when the foliage flops. I’ve been cutting the foliage off when it flops for over twenty years. My daffodils are just fine with that.
In your experience which is the reddest of the daffodils? I’m thinking some red cupped daffs around my red barked Acer ‘Pheonix’ would be fabulous. I’d be happy to hear from anyone else on what they consider the reddest daffodil.
Dear Frances, I have delighted in this posting which does at last confirm with its mass of spring cheer that the year is on the turn and we can now, with confidence, anticipate the joys to come.
If you were to garden in Britain, then with the huge range of Narcissus which you have in your garden you would be well on the way to establishing a National Collection.
It is such a good idea to create a log of your spring bulbs. For me, without a camera, without the technical skill, and without the patience this, I fear, will never happen. Still, I shall enjoy looking at yours.
What a joy to see the varieties you have – with names! I was blessed to have several varieties of bulbs already planted when I moved here. You’ve given me the idea of taking close ups so I might be able to identify them at some point. I do love bulbs, I just don’t like to plant them.
The daffs are blooming up a storm here too. Unfortunately the weather is too warm for them to last very long this year. You have quite a wide variety of colors. I like the pink edged one. I will be on the lookout for one of those.
Frances girl you have so many gorgeous ones it is hard to pick one as a favorite .. mine haven’t gotten to that stage yet so I am really looking forward to seeing a few of them : )
Mean while I can drool over yours ? LOL
Funny enough that all white one really caught my eye 😉
I am loving the daffodil show, Francis. I must look for Lorikeet.
Donna
Thanks for the great spot on the street to see the parade. This has to be the most economical, satisfying plant anyone can grow. Nothing eats them, they get bigger and better every year, and they have an amazing amnesic quality making you forget the bad weather of the previous months.
Not just yellow anymore and you have so many varieties and you have kept good records as to which are which. They sure say spring to me.
Frances – how could you pick a favorite out of all these delightful blooms? As I scrolled down the page I kept thinking “ooh, that’s my favorite”, “no, that one is”, “uh, oh, a new favorite”.
Frances – what a wonderful show! Thanks for labeling all of those for us.
BTW, thanks to your influence– I now have stipa ‘Ponytails’! A local greenhouse had gallon pots, each with 3 plants, for $5. I have 9 plants and now I don’t know where to plant them because I can use them in so many places! 🙂
Frances,
So many that I like and we do not have! You have a great selection of daffs.
I planted Little Gem and Tete a Tete fairly close to each other, can’t tell them apart. One seems to be shorter 6-10 inches the other about 12 inches, any clues about Little Gem I should know about? Also Quail looks like the ones i just mentioned but is taller and can have 4 blooms to a stalk, I really like it. Noticed you don’t have any minature daffodils?
Stunning collection, Frances. I love seeing all the variety together. How do you pick a fave!
Frances, I shall have to look for Rijnveld this autumn, the earlier the better for me!
Tete a Tete has just started flowering, the very warm weather, caused the snowdrops and aconites to finish quickly this year, boo!
Frances I do believe you may have the WUD this year. That ‘Van Sion’ could be the World’s Ugliest daffodil. My WUD went and had plastic surgery and came out gorgeous this year.
Frances – What a lovely collection. I’ve only started collecting in the last two years – 7 different kinds, I think, but we don’t have a single one in common! Isn’t that interesting. I’ll be looking @ your blog to choose some for my next planting!
Hmmm – you’ve got me thinking about adding some non-yellows to the landscape. Pink Pride and Gentle Giant are very appealing 🙂
Just how in the world am I to choose a favorite here? I do love the Lorikeet and the PinK Pride….have you ever seen a solid pink daff? I wonder if you have ever seen the Iris I posted today…Gingersnap?
You have such a selection, any non daff lover should be easily swayed to adoring them. They are all gorgeous, and thankfully so colorful.
Jen
How exciting to see a rainbow of different varieties of daffodils! The daffodils in my yard and neighborhood are boring yellow and white. I love the intesnse orange center of Gentle Giant and the unique double flower of Tahiti.
Frances, I’m amazed you have so many labeled. I’ve tried, but I lose them. Funny I don’t with other plants, but there are so many daffs. Love yours. They are a welcome sign of spring aren’t they?~~Dee
I enjoyed this post so much!!! The names along with the wonderful photos are great!!!
Hi Frances.Girl you have so many different varieties. I love the Pink Pride. What a beauty and Mount Hood too. Pretty daffs all.
Lona
Frances, you have made my day. You have a large array of daffs & I love every one. I must check to see if they all will adapt to my garden.
That is an ingenious way to help a person like myself to ID them. I’m glad you have put a name to all. Can’t wait to see the rest.
Thanks bunches.
Wow that’s an impressive number of of Daffodils, little wonder it feels like Spring has officially arrived for you, it must look stunning!
You have so many different daffodils, I don’t think I could choose a favorite. While your spring is running behind, spring here is running a few weeks ahead, so we’re nearly at the same point.
Frances, that first photo reminds me of Wordworth’s famous poem with the line about a thousand daffodils “dancing” in the breeze. Your garden just sings spring! This must have been an unusual spring for you, because most of my daffodils are blooming now, too, and you’re usually a few weeks or even a month ahead of us. They’re a welcome sight, though, whenever they arrive! Tahiti is a beauty.
Lorikeet…sigh! What a spectacular bloom…and what a parade of daffodils! 🙂
Frances, that is a very impressive collection, beautifully photographed.. Daffs are so varied and so interesting. One of my favorites is “Minnow.” It is not only prolific, but fragrant. Have you ever planted it?
Cynthia
Digging RI
The fairies must be very pleased to see the trumpets heralding in spring. (I know I am!)
Frances,What a wonderful collection of daffodils. I’ll look forward to seeing more as you have a chance to take their portraits. This is a great project.
Frances, I was just thinking this evening that I needed to take some photos of my daffodils. 🙂 While I certainly don’t have the number and variety that you do, I have added several new ones the last couple of years. However-I didn’t keep track of their names or where I planted them! Van Sion is so very unusual and I love Lorikeet, Tahiti and Cheerfulness. Actually, I would take any of them. 🙂 Thanks for the lovely spring parade.
You do have a fantastic selection of daffs~I was reading Jen’s comment and wondering if gardeners who aren’t fond of yellow mind the daffodils? Hard to imagine a spring without them…One of my favorites that came with the yard is little Actaea….and tons of King Alfred…I have put Golden Bells on my want list! It’s so long now it more scroll then list. gail
Just amazing – thank you! This post came at just the right time because I planted a daffodil mix last year and am struggling to identify all the different varieties. You sure helped me narrow them down. Gotta find that Van Engelen catalog!
Wow! They all are so pretty! Cheerfulness would be my choice if I needed to chose only one. Incredible selection, Frances!
Good for you, Frances, for keeping track of your daff names! I know a few, but in moving, etc., there are many that are now just beautiful! 😉 Thanks for sharing!
You’ve got a great selection! My favorite here are Lorikeet, Tahiti, and Fidelity. Two years ago I bought Thalia because I loved to see them on other people’s garden blogs. Now I will be looking for these – especially Lorikeet!
Frances,
A beautiful spring display of daffodils. You have such a wonderful variety, I just love ‘Tahiti’, ‘Gentle Giant’, and ‘Rijnveld’s’, which I will certainly be adding to the wish list. I am so glad that you are enjoying a lovely spring, despite it’s late arrival. It came early for us this year, which was a pleasant surprise as it always seems that our early blooms are so much later than everywhere else.
I was ready to say…ah, all daffodils look the same. You set me straight !
What a selection…really beautiful !
That’s quite a wonderful variety of dafs you have Frances – beautiful!
Frances you have some beautiful drifts of daffodils. If I was to choose a piece of music to play along to this post it would be “Trumpet Voluntary” by Jeremiah Clarke due to the array of trumpets in your photos.
Hi Frances~~ I understand. Last year spring was late in my neck of the woods so the daffs were all the more enjoyable. I must say I’m impressed with your bounteous collection.
Hi Frances
Well, this is probably the most comprehensive daffs post ever!
I loved the photos and really liked Van Sion, but wait a minute there’s more, I scrolled further and Golden bells, superb.
You got hot weather over there right now?
Holy Cow! GORGEOUS!!! I love the first photo. Your collection is such an inspiration. Thank you for sharing!
Frances, you must have heard me all the way down in Tennessee when I exclaimed “Oh My – how absolutely gorgeous.” Very interested to learn about R Early Sensation spreading for you – it just gets smaller each year for us – must be replanted every three years – something about our sandy soil. If I was very smart I’d make a note to come back to visit this posting when I’m ordering bulbs – so many lovely varieties and great photos here – think I’ve got a perfect spot for Audubon.
You have so many pretty ones! I plan to add more this fall, I’ll have to check back on this post for some ideas. I was just happy to have actual flowers this year and not just foliage. I really love that first picture with so many flowers blooming at once.