Nobody ever says “I should have planted fewer narcissus bulbs” when the flowers start blooming in springtime. With their cheery bobbing heads, these happy harbingers of spring lift your spirits when ...

Before the latest hard freeze, my paperwhites (Narcissus papyraceus) were in full bloom. Perhaps no fl oral symbol epitomizes the impending arrival of a Southern spring as does the blooming of our ...

The first hint of spring is trumpeting, so to speak, in the South with the arrival of the narcissus or daffodil. I hate writing about flowers that are opposite their planting season but on the other ...

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The north eastern counties of Ireland have produced some of the world’s most famous daffodil breeders. The likes of Co Tyrone nonagenarian Brian Duncan, Co Down’s Ringhaddy Daffodils’ founder Nial ...