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Poeticus daffodils are the old pheasant’s eye: broad white petals around a small flat eye rimmed with red. Division 9. The last of the daffodils to flower, and the most strongly scented of all.
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About Poeticus Daffodils
The poeticus are the ones people mean when they talk about the pheasant’s eye. The perianth is pure white and very flat, and at the centre sits a shallow cup, usually green and gold with a distinct red rim. They are powerfully scented, more so than any other division.
We grow two. Actaea is the larger and the earlier of them, and Old Pheasant’s Eye is the true late one, often still going when everything else has finished.
Where Poeticus Daffodils Do Best
In grass, without much question. This is one of the three divisions we would single out for naturalising, along with the cyclamineus and the triandrus, and being late they are worth keeping to a part of the lawn you are content to leave uncut a little longer.
When Do They Flower?
April into May, closing the daffodil season.
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