Narcissus, also known as daffodils, return year after year as long as the soil is well drained and the foliage is allowed to die back naturally every season. Cheerful and reliable for beds, borders, cutflowers, forcing, and naturalizing. Use our handy Narcissus Chart to choose the right ones for your garden!
Unusual 4" double blooms with rounded creamy white petals surrounding a center swirl with short ruffled apricot segments. Star-shaped pointed...
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White petals surround a pleated pale yellow collar filled with a burst of lemony yellow center petals. A real show-off in the garden and perfect for spring bouquets.
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Double flowers 3" across are full of creamy white petals interspersed with orange flecks. Fragrant blossoms come 3-5 per stem. Long-lasting in garden or vase.
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Big fluffy blooms with outer ivory white petals that surround pale yellow center ruffles. Strong and reliable. Scent is similar to gardenias.
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Narcissus jonquillaWhite petals surround a long ribbed pastel-peach cup with a pale yellow throat. This 2016 Dutch intro has taken the gardening...
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Narcissus jonquillaExquisite 3" star-shaped flower has white petals encircling a pale yellow cup. This long-flowering jonquilla produces 1–3...
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Narcissus jonquilla Award-winning fragrant miniature just right for pots or the front of the border. Wide disc-shaped buttercup-yellow cup is lightly ribbed, lightly frilled.
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Narcissus jonquillaCreamy white outer petals surround a yellow ruffled cup with peach-pink edges. Sprays of fragrant flowers are borne on tall...
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Classic 1960s American intro features a 4" upward-facing flower with crisp white petals and a soft coral cup. It holds up well in sunlight, but...
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Yellow petals back a deeper golden-yellow cup nearly long enough to be a Trumpet. Multiplies rapidly. Light vanilla fragrance. Said to be the world’s most planted narcissus.
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Truly stunning with 4" overlapping white petals and a showy bowl-shaped cup with a yellow center and ruffled coral-pink rim. The cup fades to...
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Showy lightly fragrant flowers with a great contrast between pure white petals and the slightly ruffled yellow cup with a glowing red-orange rim....
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Delicate overlapping white petals surround a shallow bowl-shaped cup with a yellow center that fades to an eye-catching coral pink at the edge....
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Slightly star-shaped 3½" bloom with white petals and a large peach cup with a gold rim. The cup opens yellow, but will turn peachy-pink in a day...
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Named after the Dutch pastry tompouce, this narcissus is a real treat with its yummy color combination of pale yellow pointed petals around a ...
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Narcissus poeticus Glistening white petals surround a small red-rimmed yellow cup. Vigorous heirloom variety performs best in cool climates and tolerates damp.
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Multi-flowered, each stem loaded with clusters of ivory white petals that surround slightly ribbed and bowl-shaped bright yellow-orange cups....
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Large fragrant blooms up to 4" across, with luminous white petals surrounding a ruffled split cup with richly colored and layered petals. Despite...
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Creamy white petals surround a peach and yellow cup with ruffled peach edges. Flowers are long-lasting and have an unusual orchid-like shape....
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Award-winning 4" flower featuring white petals set off by a split cup adorned with a bright yellow star on a white background. Big, showy and...
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As eye-catching from afar as it is up close. White petals contrast perfectly with the vibrant ruffled yellow-orange cup. Pairs with trumpet and...
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Lavish 4" blooms with bright white petals surrounding a split cup of yellows and oranges that appear painted on with the finest watercolors....
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Narcissus tazettaAn award-winning heirloom daffodil also known as Seventeen Sisters for its sheer abundance of blooms. Each 1" flower has white...
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Narcissus tazetta Hardy outdoor Tazetta has carrot-orange short cups surrounded by bright yellow petals. Multiple highly fragrant blossoms per stem.
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Large 4–5" bloom with a star of crisp white petals around an oversized ruffled peach trumpet. Fragrant, with strong stems; perfect for wedding...
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One of the finest white daffodils, this 1938 classic opens marble white to slightly pale yellow, and turns to pure white in a day or two.
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Narcissus
Narcissus, also known as daffodils, are found around the foundations of abandoned homesteads because they return year after year as long as the soil is well drained and the foliage is allowed to die back naturally every season. Deer and other critters are unlikely to eat them, as they are toxic to animals and people. Cheerful and reliable for beds, borders, cutflowers, forcing, and naturalizing.
Narcissus thrive in full sun and some (where noted in descriptions) do well in dappled shade. Pink, orange and red varieties hold their color best in dappled shade or during cool wet springs. In a dry season, water late varieties in midspring to ensure bloom. Hardy in Zones 3–8, except where noted. 12–14cm bulb size, unless specified.
Daffodils in Mixed Arrangements
Daffodils make great cutflowers, and last a long time in the vase, but the freshly cut stems exude a sap that clogs the pores of other types of flowers. If you want a mixed arrangement, place the freshly cut daffodil stems in a container of cool water to soak for 10–12 hours before mixing them with others.
Are they Daffodils, Jonquils or Narcissi? Yes!
A friend said he’d been confused by the different terms he’d heard to describe these familiar flowers. They are all in the genus Narcissus, so calling them that is perfectly fine, just as we say Crocus or Iris.
Narcissus, Narcissuses and Narcissi are all acceptable as the plural, so use the one you like. ‘Daffodil’ was first used in Wales and England to refer to certain wild forms. It is now used to refer either specifically to the Trumpets, or generally to mean any type of Narcissus. ‘Jonquil’ is also used to refer generally to any type of Narcissus, especially in the South where jonquils thrive. Horticulturists use it to refer to the wild Narcissus jonquilla and its progeny, the Jonquilla class of cultivars. So, really, all of these terms are fine.
