Daffodil (Narcissus) Tazetta

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The Tazetta group, includes small cupped, very fragrant, mid sized Daffodils which have multiple blooms per stem and often each bulb producing several stems, giving you an entire bouquet in each bulb. These can be easily forced indoors for Winter blooms. They naturalize readily in wet Winter, dry Summer climates.  Sold as single varieties or in a bundle of 28 bulbs with 7 of each variety so you can try them all.

Native mainly to the Mediterranean, narcissi were grown by the Egyptians and Greeks and brought into English gardens by the 1200s. While thousands of new tulips and hyacinths were being developed, the number of daffodils grew slowly. Maybe 50 date to before 1700, another 350 by 1860. But then a couple of British enthusiasts set to work and from 1860 to 1900 roughly 1000 new varieties were introduced. By 1930 there were another 6000, making the early 20th century a Golden Age. Sadly only a fraction of those varieties survive today.

Narcissi are deer resistant and best planted in masses in the Fall for the best visual effect.  Great as a cut flower, these Spring bloomers flower at different times to provide colour and much needed                                                  food for pollinators coming out of hibernation.                                                                             Some are Wister award winners, the highest award given to Daffodils from the Daffodil                                                    Society of America and some are Garden of Merit award winners                                        from the Royal Horticultural Society of the UK. 

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