Daffodil Dreams

Image 1: Yellow and White Daffodils

In May, I spontaneously joined the Midwest Daffodil Society, when I visited the Chicago Botanic Garden on the day of the Society's spring show.  I had stopped for a quick visit while I was returning home from a trip [to an AQS quilt show in Paducah, Kentucky!]  The daffodil show was wonderful - tables and tables of flowers and arrangements and displays.  

Image 2: Midwest Daffodil Society Daffodil Show at Chicago Botanic Garden

I saw a large variety of daffodils, increasing my appreciation for a lovely spring flower I had in my garden at home.  I love spring, flowers, and daffodils, and so it seemed like a great day to join a group I hadn't known existed.  I would learn more about daffodils as well.

Image 3: Daffodils with pink cup

Because I joined, I returned for the society's bulb sale and other meetings, where I got a bunch of different types (divisions) of daffodil bulbs, with codes for the colors.

Image 4: Daffodil Collection at the Midwest Daffodil Society Show

I created this post to document the bulbs I got and to learn more about the daffodil bulbs I recently planted.  If the bulbs actually bloom next spring, I'll be able to find the information about what I planted.

Image 5: Daffodils

As a side benefit, this post can introduce gardeners and people who like daffodils to more information about daffodils.  The American Daffodil Society has an information packed site, and I used DaffSeek's great website for learning about and identifying the daffodil types.

Image 6: Daffodils

And why am I posting this post in November?  Because I'm trying to document the bulbs I recently planted, and also fulfill my goal of posting one post a month.  Today's my last chance to get a post in in November, and I just planted the bulbs in the VERY COLD ground.  This post is unseasonal but it's what I was working on.

Image 7: Daffodils

So, on to Planting....

What I got: 

Division 1 – Trumpet Daffodils
[Corona 'trumpet' as long as, or longer than the petals.  One flower to a stem]:

Bravoure daffodil     1 W-Y trumpet wister

Ombersley daffodil     1 Y-Y Pastles 96

Division 2 Daffodils 
[Large cup shorter than petals, One flower to a stem]: 

Altun Ha daffodil           2 YYWW W 

Chromacolor daffodil     2 W-P large cup

Celyon daffodil     2 Y-O large cup wister

Hawaiian Skies daffodil  2 W-YYP large cup

Iroquois daffodil          2YYW-O  Havens 95 

Men-an-Tol daffodil     2Y-YYR    Scamp 94

Pacific Rim daffodil     2Y-YYR   Mitsch 95

Plaudit daffodil     2W-P   D Jackson 2006

Division 3 Daffodils 
[Small cupped daffodils, Corona “cup” not more than one-third the length of the petals, One flower per stem]:

Barrett Browning daffodil           3 W-WWWY small cup

Cameo Marie daffodil           3 W-YYO small cup

Callaway daffodil           3 W-YYO small cup

Dreamlight daffodil           3 W-WWWY small cup

Ring Fence daffodil     3Y-YYR   Duncan 96

Sinopel daffodil           3 W-WWWY small cup

Division 4 Daffodils 
[Double Daffodils - Double petals or cups or both, 1 or more flower per stem]: 

Gay Tabor daffodil     4 W-O   Double

Le Torch 4 Y-O double

Salou daffodil              4 W-Y Double
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Division 7 Jonquilla Daffodils 
[Corona cup-shaped, funnel-shaped or flared, usually wider than long; flowers usually fragrant.  One to five (rarely eight) flowers to a stem]:

Golden Echo daffodil           7 WWY-Y

Pipit daffodil     7 YYW-W

Division 8 Tazetta Daffodils
[Petal segments spreading not reflexed; flowers usually fragrant. Usually three to twenty flowers to a stout stem]:

Avalanche daffodil           8 W-Y

Minnow daffodil           8 W-Y

Division 9 Poeticus Daffodils 
[Petal segments pure white; corona very short or disc-shaped, not more than one-fifth the length of the petals; flowers fragrant ]:

Lemon Cooler daffodil     9W-GWO

Malin Head daffodil     9W-GWO

Division 11a – Split-Cupped Collar Daffodils
[Split-corona daffodils with the corona segments opposite the petals; the corona segments usually in two whorls of three]:

Sovereign daffodil       11a W-O Split corona

Yellow Parrot daffodil  11a Y-Y Mini, split cup

They are all planted, and now I will dream about them growing and blooming in spring.  It seems a miracle for the lumpy brown bulbs that frankly look dead to morph into a delicately petaled and exquisitely formed daffodil plant!

"The garden year has no beginning and no end."

                                Elizabeth Lawrence

"Gardening is the closest one can come to being present at creation"

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Near the dining room window I pulled up the dead Evergreen tree and planted 5 bulbs, and planted myrtle over them. Altun Ha, Chromacolor, and Hawaiian Skies daffodils

Far from the dining room I pulled up the other dead evergreen tree and planted 6 bulbs, and put some myrtle over them. Salou, Le Torch and 4 Bittern.