Candy Princess Daffodil

This beautiful double daffy is effortlessly photogenic. With good strong stems, she never lays her head in the mud.

Beautiful banner Zoia!

Some photos

I'm used to the plain yellow and white daffodils here, that one is beautiful! Great banner, Zoia.

absolutely beautiful...congrats.
Thankyou.
Do you know how to keep squirrels from eating daffodil and tulip bulbs ?
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In my experience, they don't eat daffodils, as they are poisonous. Tulips are trickier, mostly I plant so many, they can't get them all. But some people have luck planting them with something spiky, like ground up shells. They hurt to dig up then. Or there are wire cages you can buy for tulip bulbs. I never thought that was worth it, as most tulips are basically annuals, except Darwin hybrids and even those are mostly a couple of years.

But daffodils and hyacinth get better every year and don't get eaten.

Great banner, Zoia!

We have gophers & squirrels, and they don't touch the daffys.
I've tried several fancy daffodils, but only the King Alfred's come back
each year.

I don't bother with tulips...just too warm here.

When I planted some tulips last fall, the next day I noticed a squirrel digging around them. I put some eyedropperfuls of peppermint oil on the holes I dug and they left them alone since. I was ready to have to repeat it, but I've never seen them back there again. They are Darwin tulips, so I'm really hoping for more than a few years from them.

I've got one tulip that comes up under the outer branches of a Mock Orange bush, it might get some east sun, but it's bloomed for the last 7 years that I know of, and I expect to see it this spring too. I keep thinking it's so out of place by itself, maybe a squirrel planted it, that I should dig it up. But it's such a persistent sight each spring that I figured it deserves to stay where it's at. The flowers are on the smaller side, but they are pretty, and I always cut them and bring them inside so I can at least see them. So I'm really hoping for a longer period of time from Darwins.

I love plants that come back & bloom each year. Like seeing a old friend.
We have a clump of Lily of the Valley that do that. It's special.

When I moved into my house in 1992, I noticed a pretty clump of Darwin hybrid Banja Luca, growing in an unlikely place under a bush. They came back EVERY YEAR until about 2018. I'm pretty sure they were planted by an English lady who lived here in the late eighties, according to my neighbor. That would mean that they survived for 30 years, rather unheard of, for a tulip.

If they could only talk.