Fancy Narcissus

The earliest fresh flowers from the field we offer at the farm are fancy narcissus! Usually starting to show their beauty the first week or two of April. We planted several hundred bulbs a couple years ago and each spring we anxiously await their blooms because it means we finally are back in the flowers.

Narcissus, a flower group that includes daffodils (and paperwhites), are the very first flowers to bloom in spring. After a long dreary winter, they’re a sight for sore eyes! These aren’t you common landscape daffodils you see everywhere else - these are special “fancy” daffodils, meaning large- or double-cupped daffodils, which will show up in a variety of forms and colors. Many people associate daffodils with the bright school-bus yellow, dollar-a-dozen bunches from grocery stores. These aren’t those!! We selected these for a variety of shades (yellow, peach, salmon, white, and apricot blooms), stem length and display - we hope you enjoy them this spring!. Some are fragrant; others could easily be mistaken for peonies or orchids. The best thing about growing these beauties is that they arrive in early spring, long before the rest of the garden wakes up.

VARIETIES

We may add more varieties in the future to our growing collection but for now, below are the varieties we have growing:

Photos are not our own but sourced from a well-known flower farm, supplier, and education resource - Floret (because she takes gorgeous photos!)

Ice King

Buttered popcorn color, these ruffled flowers have crimped and folded central petals that are packed yet reflex back. Sulphur-yellow cup adorned with white highlights.

DOUBLE • EARLY-BLOOMER (APRIL)

Snowboard

Slightly nodding 3 3/4” flowers have long trumpets and are the purest blizzard-white. The rounded, partially overlapping perianth encircles a flawless funnel-shaped cup with a slightly wavy mouth and a green eye.

LARGE-CUPPED • MID-BLOOMER (APRIL)

White Lion

Creamy ivory outer petals alternate with shorter yellow petal segments at its frilled, double center. Flowers are symmetrical, 3 1/2” gardenia-like, and fragrant!

DOUBLE • MID-BLOOMER (LATE APRIL)

Coral Light

Overlapping 4” white outer petals encircle soft green-eyed, lemon centers with tangerine edging. Centers turn pale coral-pink with a darker cup edge as they age, giving flowers an antique quality. 

LARGE-CUPPED • LATE-BLOOMER (APRIL)

Stainless

Outward-facing, snow-white flowers have petite, shallow cups encircling apple-green centers. 4” blooms are lightly scented. 

LARGE-CUPPED • LATE-BLOOMER (APRIL-MAY)

Delnashaugh

Short, frilled, apricot-pink and ivory-tinted centers are tightly packed and surrounded by 4” creamy-white petals. These beauties are reminiscent of waterlilies. 

DOUBLE • LATE-BLOOMER (MAY)

VASE LIFE TRICKS

Most daffodil varieties have a vase life of nearly a week if the flowers aren’t fully open. When arranging narcissus stems in a vase with other flowers or greens, don’t recut the stems because their sap will start leaking and is harmful to other flowers. We’ve already conditioned the stems before the sale. Of course, you can create an arrangement solely of narcissus, either just one variety or several, and the sap won’t be an issue if you recut stems. If you do recut the stems and would like to add additional blooms, just leave the narcissus in cup by themselves after trimming for a couple hours and then they will be ok to add additional flowers with them. Read more on extending fresh flowers here!