Daffodil (Narcissus)
Kat Collett hula-hooping at Oldbury Court Estate, Bristol in spring 2011 Shot on a Canon 550d using Tokina 35mm f2.8 and Sigma 50-150 f2.8 lenses ...
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Tulips are notoriously short lived, but you can keep them for much longer by digging the bulbs after the leaves had died and keeping them in a cool, dark place – your refrigerator is ideal. Replant them in the fall and get a terrifi c crop of tulips next spring. However, there is no real need to dig and replant unless you are really cleaning up the garden. Around here you can simply leave them in the ground, but snip off the seed head when the flower petals drop and fertilize at that time with a high-nitrogen fertilizer. The nutrients ensure that the plant stores enough energy for next season.
Old Home Gardens is the only catalog that has broken tulips. Broken tulips are flowers that open one color and “break” into a second color. They were a tremendous craze during the great tulip boom of the 1880s and only later was it found that the “break” was caused by a tiny virus in the tulip and spread by aphids. If you plant “broken” tulips make sure you plant them away from other tulips so that the virus is not transferred to your regular crop.
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Growing tips: Copper Queen Daffodils trumpet than curls back on itself slightly to reveal the typical bright golden stamen of the narcissus. It is one of the later flowering daffodils, and more » |
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Growing tips: Salome Daffodils It is hardy to zone three like most narcissus and blooms in early to mid-spring, with each flower lasting up to four weeks on an eighteen inch stem. and more » |
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Growing tips: Grand Soleil d'Or Daffodils Growing tips: Grand Soleil d'Or DaffodilsIts small stature is why you will hear it referred to as a narcissus as often as a daffodil. All daffodils and paperwhites belong to the narcissus family, |
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Unearthing the past at Jefferson's Poplar Forest Unearthing the past at Jefferson's Poplar Forest Martha, from Bedford, telling her that he wanted Calycanthus plants, orchard grass seed and "hardy bulbous roots . . . daffodils, jonquils, narcissus, and more » |
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A guide to forcing bulbs indoors Calla Lily, Paper White Narcissus, Autumn Crocus, Dutch Iris, Bluebell and Fairy Lily. Those that need a cold snap include Hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils, |
