Tazetta Daffodils
Category : Pretty Golden Daffodils
Narcissus tazetta ‘Minnow’ (Scented Minature Daffodil) – Pack of 20 Bulbs
Tazettas are floriferous or bunch flowering daffodils: they produce several blossoms per stem, at a minimum three or four. However, clusters of eighteen or even twenty are not rare.
They are particularly good for planting in the warmer zones.
Tazetta Daffodils almost always have a very sweet, musky fragrance, for which they are deservedly prized.
| Flowering time: | mid spring |
| Plant height: | 6 – 18″ (15 – 46 cm) |
| Minimum planting depth: | 6″ (15 cm) |
| Hardiness zones: | suitable for zones 5 – 9 |
| Colours: | white or yellow petals, with white, yellow, orange, or red cups |
| Shape/form: | floriferous: usually three to eight blossoms on a strong stem, though 20 is possible petals (i.e. perianth segments) are rounded and may be somewhat crinkled cup is very short |
| Alternate names: | Bunch-flowered Daffodils Poetaz narcissi, which are hybrids between Division 8 and 9, are also included in this Division (eg. varieties such as: Admiration, Cragford, Elvira, Geranium, Red Guard, Scarlet Gem, St. Agnes) |
| Notes: | good for beds, borders, cutting, and indoor forcing Tazettas are a bit tender and require winter protection in the cooler zones |
| Example varieties: | Avalanche* (white with yellow cup), Canarybird** (yellow with soft orange cup), Cragford** (white with red-orange cup), Falconet** (yellow with orange-red cup), Geranium** (white with orange cup), Golden Dawn* (yellow with yellow-orange cup), Scarlet Gem* (pale yellow with red-orange cup), Silver Chimes* (silver-white) |
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