Red and Gold

Another one of my fathers daffodils. He would have called this one yellow with a small red cup. This particular one has small flower but you wouldn't call it a miniature as it grows as tall as most other daffodils. It is a very intense colour and it had such a beautiful scent.

Today has been spent catching up on thing around the house some sending of some emails that were will overdue.

All about the Fragrances of Daffodils

The old-fashioned Narcissus poeticus 'Recurvus,' also known as 'Pheasant's Eye,' is among spring's sweet-smelling daffodils.

When you think of fragrant spring bulbs, hyacinths and lily-of-the-valley are probably the first that come to mind.

What you may not realize is that the enormous daffodil clan includes several "families" or classes known for their sweet, essence-of-spring scent.

You have to steer away from the classic golden trumpet daffodils like 'King Alfred,' a cultivar introduced in 1899 that's still going strong. These, alas, have a vaguely vegetable smell you wouldn't exactly describe as a fragrance.


The scented types are mainly found among the jonquilla and tazetta groups, both of which produce several smaller blossoms per stem. More fragrant characters include the old-fashioned poeticus kinds and the gussied-up double-flowered types that don't bear much resemblence at all to the iconic trumpet daffodil.

By the way, the scent of hardy daffodils isn't at all like the cloying, overly-sweet odor of paperwhite narcisscus, a tender bulb of the Mediterranean that does not require a period of cold to trigger bloom. Hardy dafs have a fresher, lighter fragrance, best appreciated close-up, as when you cut a few of these spring beauties for the season's first bouquet.
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