Flower Delivery

Daffodils belong to the family of a large-flowered group of the genus Narcissus. Generally daffodils are yellow, but some of them also grow in yellow-and-white, yellow-and-orange, white-and-orange, pink, and lime-green.

Daffodils are constantly recurring flowers. Where climate is moderate they flourish among the first spring buds: as such they bid glad tidings for the advent of spring. They often bloom in clusters, turning lawns and even whole country side in yellow.

All daffodils have a corona in the center that looks like trumpet and a ring of petals all around. The natural daffodil has a golden yellow color all over, but the trumpet may often appear in a contrasting color. But the breeders have successfully grown a double or triple line of petals. These breeded flowers look like tiny golden ball. Other growers have changed the petal’s pattern or introduced variety in the shape of central trumpet, making them either long or compressed.

Daffodils have no attraction for wildlife and carry the advantage of being planted in any place in the garden. The ideal places to grow them, are rock garden, perennial borders and under the trees that have tendency to shed leaves in fall. So they are good for a place that is either full of sunlight or partly shaded. The paper-white daffodils could be planted in gardens that are outdoor. But they could grow in indoor gardens during Christmas and give an elegant touch to your window sill during the mid-winter.

To enjoy a charming and soothing plantation of daffodils, what you need at the very outset, is to make a big starting investment. So be magnanimous to lay out bulbs in big, fluid sweeps of limited kinds of these flowers. These will not look expensive looking to the fact that they will not call for recurring landscape maintenance, instead they will last for a longer span.

The next step in the process is to be very careful about the corresponding depth and height of the daffodils of varying sizes. Depth, as a general rule, needs to be thrice the height. This means large bulbs should have depth of 6 to 8 inches, medium size 3-6 inches and smaller size 2-3 inches. Always remember that the load of soil prove helpful to protect the bulbs from breaking too easily and keep them upright for a longer duration. If this fact is ignored and enough depth is not given then the daffodil will bend down very soon. Though blooms will come in bigger clumps, the bulbs and flowers will be scant.

Often during the time when fall is around and no clear clue is available to guide to the site where you planted your daffodils, so it is recommended to make a border of daffodils with such short bulbs that unfailingly show leaves even at the time of fall. Alternatively golf tees could be placed at the borders of the planting later in spring but a little before the foliage tends to dry up.

Daffodils gracefully flourish even in the soil used in common gardens that is not too flooded with water, for if there is excess of wetness the bulbs of daffodils start to droop and decay. So spare a spot that is drained well in your lawn and place them in such a manner that direct sunrays are available to them for nearly six to seven hours a day.

As your daffodil blooms reach at the peak of flowering there is no need to take out dried blossoms as long as the leaves are left in place till the turn yellowish in 40 to 50 days. In the absence of leaves that make food the fruition may not be up to expectation next season. So care must be taken to see that the leaves retain their strength.