Category: Growing Daffodils

Daffodil Digging Time

It’s time to dig daffodils and I am feeling the pain already.  This being my 80th year, digging gets harder each year and I have muscles that I didn’t know about already telling me they don’t want to do it. …

Watering daffodils

Being in Western Washington I’ve never had to water daffodils that were not in pots.  It typically rains Jan, Feb, March, April, May, and June enough that I’ve never worried about watering daffodils in the ground.  This year has been…

End of season nearing

I just wanted to give a short update: Most Surprising was a season one set of Jonquil/Viridiflorus/standard crosses John Hunter made. These have a heady vanilla scent and start blooming just after the first daffodils opened. These cultivars kept sending…

Daffodil Show in Chambersbury PA

April 22, 2023 the Chambersburg Garden Club & the Tuscarora Daffodil Group held it’s 86th Daffodil Show in Chambersburg, PA. Hosts Mitch and Kate Carney are thanked for the hospitality and the great daffodil show.  It was a chill in…

Suggestions for high altitude Daffodils in Denver

Here in the upper Midwest you want early cultivars. Poets have their roots most of the year and come up late enough that they do not freeze out. Actaea and Gweal are early cultivars that should do well for you.…

Ribbons

I hate to say this, but with judging on a panel and taking pictures I didn’t have a chance to review the exhibits and see if I had any winners at the WDS daffodil show.  I knew I had won…