White flowers are unusual in that the lack of color lets the shape of the flower show without distraction.
I have different flowers in their white versions scattered throughout my gardens. Thalia is a great example of this. I have many different colors of daffodils. Thalia’s shape stands out from the yellow crowd.
White also glows in the evening. Use some cooling white in sun or shade.
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Several years ago I purchased a bag of bulbs labeled ‘ Sixty Days of Daffodils.’
This beauty is making its debut.
I love spring surprises!
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Daffodils are the flower of spring. If you are one who does not love yellow, you have options.
I wish I knew this sweetie pie’s name. She has a blushing pink bonnet.
This bloom has white petals. The bonnet opens yellow then quickly blushes pink.
I also have an orange and yellow bloomer. This is what happens when you purchase mixed bulbs.
I love surprises!
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It is a tradition that we hike up the hill to see the thousands of daffodils when they bloom.
We did that this evening as our supper cooked.
It is a magical spot, high above the river.
There is no home there now. The house got moved down the road a ways. Only the daffodils remain.
Blooms in every direction.
Those folks must have felt like they were on top of the world, watching the river flow by below.
It is a dream. A daffodil-filled dream.
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I look forward to their arrival every spring. They appear weeks earlier than any of my other daffodils.
Those tiny golden twins. Like little suns on stems.
These are the bulbs I share more than any other, ‘Tete-a-tete’ miniature narcissus.
They were given to me by my mother in a pot many years ago. My children were small. My garden was new and neglected.
Yesterday, I told Mama about her Tete-a-tetes blooming, like little baskets of gold, all over my yard, her yard and my sister’s yard. She smiled.
If I were to choose only one daffodil, which would be difficult,
it would be these early, tiny twins.
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I am a fan of variations on a theme.
I also like unusual daffodils.
Here are some of the many varieties blooming right now in my gardens.
They aren’t just yellow.
They aren’t all mellow.
Some have trumpets. (Like Dizzy Gillespie)
I must mention that the cups are called coronas. (These are not contagious.)
They have divisions named for their cup type or lack of one or petal curvature or blooms per stem… (Look Knight, there’s twee!)
A daffodil by another name, is a Narcissus.
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I love anything blooming right now.
Yellow flowers are like spots of sunlight in the garden.
All daffodils are appreciated, but I do have a favorite.
The Tete a Tete bulbs form little bouquets.
They look this way because they have short stems
and because some stems hold twins.
This habit makes the bunch look like a bouquet.
Two cute is too cute!
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For those of you that do not love sunny yellow, there are mellow daffodils.
Ice Follies Narcissus has a pale yellow fluffy cup.
Thalia is pure white and pointy.
I found a ’60 Days of Daffodils’ by Simple Pleasures that has many varieties.
This one with pink cups was a surprise mixed in a pack of others.
Love this double!
These Tazetta cultivars have a mystery source also.
If you are too mellow for yellow, there are many other daffodil colors.
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Sometimes flowers merge.
This is especially true for the cutest daffodil in the world, Tete a Tete.
It tends to grow two flowers to a stem.
Sometimes the two get smashed together.
Sometimes they fuse together.
Occasionally they join into a Siamese-twin type of flower.
These are at first noticeable due to their extra petals and larger cup/corolla.
If you look closely, you will notice two pistils, the female part , in the center.
Also double the number of stamens(male parts) surrounding them.
If you cut these blooms open, you will see there are still two separate ovules in the double-sized ovary.
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