Daffodils
There are so many types of daffodils, it’s tough to decide what to plant. I thought organizing them by color might make the task easier.
If you love the classic yellow flowers, pick Quail, Carlton, or Tete-a-tete. They are vigorous, eager to naturalize and fragrant.
The Mount Hood, Snowball, Ice Wings and Thalia varieties are white and fragrant, particularly Thalia which inherited its intoxicating fragrance from paperwhites.
Earlicheer, a special variety of white daffodils, blooms in summer.
Replete, Extravaganza, Shrike, Fire Drill, Pink Parasol and Romance are recently released pink breeds sure to stand out in your spring garden.
Boaz, Kedron, Tahiti, Kiwi Sunset, and Double Suade look radiant in tropical orange hues.
Although there are no true red daffodils, Riot, Amadeus, Cool Flame and Decoy are as close to red as you can get.
And then there are the odd ones, whose blossoms are not what you would expect: Golden Bells and Mary Poppins lost their outer petals altogether, Jonquilla Pipit dressed up in bright chartreuse, and Sinopel colored the centers its poet daffodil flowers green.
I left the best for last: the cyclamineus daffodil, which is basically a yellow tube with contrails. If you’ve never seen this variety, it’s definitely worth a web search.