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The elegant daffodil, flower of the poets, is the graceful swan of the world of Dutch bulb flowers. Immortalized in verse by lovers of beauty from the ancient Greeks to Wordsworth, even children’s nursery rhymes tell us, "Daffy-downdilly came into town, in a yellow petticoat and a green gown.”
So, even the poetry of children reminds us that we need not live in the country to enjoy the golden trumpets of Spring. City dwellers, too, can bring into town the “yellow petticoats" of delightful, buttercolored blossoms, waving happily atop the “green gown" of gracefully curving stems.
Regardless of where you plant daffodils—also called Narcissus, the botanical name, and referred to frequently as jonquils in the South—you must put the bulbs in the ground now, during Fall planting season, at least six weeks before the first killing frost. And you can be assured that when Spring arrives, your daffodils will give her a truly warm welcome, whether in your garden or windowbox. You may want to plant the large yellow trumpet variety, since it is perhaps the most familiar of all daffodils. As a matter of fact, to most people the trumpet variety is the daffodil, although there are 11 divisions and 18 subdivisions of the many-costumed daffodil. The trumpet’s major characteristics are one flower to a stem, with a long “trumpet” or “corona” extending outward from the blossom. There are, however, largecupped and small-cupped varieties in orange, snow-white and brilliant crimson scarlet, double-daffodils with two blossoms to a stem, and even those such as the Triandus Narcissus i with its lovely Thalia, featuring i up to four pure white flowers on a single, magnificent stem, i
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