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Help me choose daffodil bulbs for my grassy bank

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 01/09/2017 12:15

I have a grassy bank at the back of my garden, which slopes upwards away from the house, facing SW. (It's actually where the medieval town wall used to run.)

In the 60s it had lots of very bright daffodils on it but it got overgrown with brambles and I am clearing it and want to naturalise some more daffs.

I am busy overthinking. I like the little wild ones, narcissus pseudonarcissus, which you get a lot in the Yorkshire moors (we're a bit south of the moors) but I would also like to have a couple of different sorts for variety and longer flowering, and I am not sure if the other sorts would overwhelm the little ones, both visually and in terms of hybridising and outcompeting them.

Does anyone have any favourite varieties they think might be nice?

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WellTidy · 01/09/2017 17:08

I am Welsh so I've been brought up appreciating daffodils! My favourites are the short ones, Tete a Tete. Anything miniature takes my fancy.

MrsBertBibby · 01/09/2017 19:16

I put some Minnows in last autumn and they were absolutely stunning. Long lasting too, I thought.

www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/narcissus-minnow/classid.1000000299/

Kr1stina · 01/09/2017 22:47

I'd add smaller bulbs to extend the season , like crocus, muscari, chinodoxa etc , as they all look good with yellow.

If you want Other daffodils, go for something smallish and early like N. February Gold, as narcissus pseudonarcissus is late .

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 02/09/2017 14:08

Thank you!
My garden is already very rich in crocuses and muscari, thanks to the previous owners, and I put some chionodoxa in last year because I had got them muddled up with camassia and thought they would flower at the same time as the pheasant eye narcissus in my orchard area Blush

I have some tete a tetes in pots and love them.
So a big sweep of narcissus pseudonarcissus with some clumps of February Gold to get me excited in early spring and some minnows in slightly hidden places to discover. Sounds like a plan!

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