Narcissus - unusual variety

[Maggiethecat]

Just bought some narcissus replete bulbs from Lidl. They’re large and healthy looking and the flowers are an unusual (to me) colour.

Excited to plant them but will have to figure where to plant them as they’ll probably clash with the bright yellow varieties that I’m planning to plant masses of.

Has anyone grown these?

www.thompson-morgan.com/p/narcissus-replete-improved/t63243TM

I've got some of these and I grow them mixed in with Thalia, which looks pretty.
<Cries as I am (hopefully) moving house and will have to leave them all behind)

Dig them up and take them with you?
They look gorgeous. Guess who’s off to Lidl…..

I've tried, but I can't locate them! (Also I am already taking so many pots with me the removal firms have all had to quote for an extra van and an extra day!!)

Ah! Might be easier to just buy some more bulbs as a house warming gift to yourself. (Still my excuse 3 months after moving in for all sorts of gardening stuff!)

What a good idea. I wonder if I have any pots left to put bulbs in? Yep..I think I do!

Love the look of the Thalia!
So excited to plant bulbs. Need to figure how to protect them.
Liberal sprinkling of chilli?

Mine have never needed protection from anything. Bung em in and forget! Make sure you've planted them deep enough though. I think 2.5 times the depth of the bulb is recommended.

@FuzzyPuffling - perhaps depends on where you live. I always get my bulbs dug up by (presumably) squirrels.

@Maggiethecat can you bury your bulbs and then place some wire mesh on top either buried or pegged into the soil/compost? Or plant some spiky bush/shrubbery over the top.
Curry powder seems to work on keeping squirrels away - maybe any thing that is strong smelling will do. We found that squirrels dig things up, the badger helping followed by voles nibbling the smaller crocus and snowdrop bulbs.

@Alphabet1spaghetti2 - curry, chilli - will raid the kitchen cupboard!

@Maggiethecat Mulling this over with a cuppa - if you like garlic, I wonder if planting some bulbs amongst the daffs would put the squirrels off? Maybe put the garlic in sunken plastic pots, so as not to mistake edible bulbs for very much inedible bulbs…?

I bought these bulbs in Lidl a couple of weeks ago and could kick myself for not buying more.

These narcissus are so pretty and are a perfect match with the tulips.

I will go on looking as there are about five Lidls near me.

I'm just imagining a queue of animals lining up for a bulb dinner! 😁

@FuzzyPuffling we used to get a lot of wildlife in our old garden. Otters, swans and ducks, newts, frogs, badgers, voles, moles, squirrels, too many birds to mention and the occasional (urgh) rat. Plus a couple of stray cats - who were fed so they left our wildlife alone! I adopted the ‘one bulb/plant for me and one for them’ attitude as I was heavily outnumbered. 😂

@Alphabet1spaghetti2 - one for you one for me is an expensive endeavour!!😂

@Maggiethecat yes it was! So stuck to a ramshackle garden center which sold plants at very reasonable prices and cheap plants and so many bulbs! Eg 24 primroses for £3 etc.

I don't know if this will work for you but last year we had squirrels keep making a mess digging around the borders before I planted bulbs.
To avoid them all becoming squirrel food, I planted my bulbs and then covered over all the disturbed soil with fallen leaves and mulch. I read somewhere online that they dig where the ground has been recently turned over because they assume there's another squirrel's stash to steal.

Don't know how true that is but they didn't get dug up.

I also covered my bulb pots with some slabs for a few weeks until they weren't newly planted and tempting anymore and they didn't get touched either.

I haven't put any bulbs in yet this year. I probably need to get hold of some pronto if I want to.

I grew these last year, they were lovely. Only trouble was they flowered a bit later than I expected and the flowers didn’t seem to last very long at all which was most disappointing after I felt like I’d waited forever for them. I grew mine in pots and I’m a total novice gardener.

@QueenWenceslas - beautiful! Look forward to planting up mine!

Double daffodils are the last of the narcissus to flower in a season

Ah I didn’t know that, thank you

I have some of these and they are so pretty! I like them mixed in with more traditional types too as I read somewhere that the double petalled flowers aren't as good for pollinators so I try and make sure there are plenty for an early feed for the bees too! The double ones make nice cut flowers but they all look lovely bringing a bit of colour to the garden after winter.

Tried to get some Thalia (white ones) to mix with the pretty peach ones but they are are expensive - about £6-7 for 8