Division 1. The daffodil most people picture: one flower to a stem, with the trumpet as long as the petals or longer, carried on a stem strong enough for March weather. These are the first of the large daffodils to open, and the division to plant when you want daffodils in quantity.
Trumpet daffodils stand between 35cm and 50cm, tall enough for the middle of a border and sturdy enough to take spring weather without staking. Rijnveld’s Early Sensation will be out in January in a kind winter, and the rest follow through March into April.
Dutch Master is the yellow most gardeners know and Mount Hood the white. Arctic Gold and Arkle carry the deeper yellows, while Pistachio, Cornish King and Orange Sunset give the bicolours, their trumpets opening one shade and settling to another.
Planting and Naturalising
Plant in autumn at three times the depth of the bulb, deeper still on light soil. Trumpets naturalise readily in grass and under deciduous trees, increasing year on year so long as the foliage is left to die down of its own accord. Resist tidying it away: those leaves are feeding next spring’s flower. Six weeks after flowering is soon enough to mow.
What are trumpet daffodils?
Division 1 in the RHS classification: a single flower to each stem, with a trumpet at least as long as the surrounding petals. It is the classic daffodil shape, and the division that carries most of the varieties grown for naturalising in grass.
When do trumpet daffodils flower?
From late January into April, depending on variety and season. Rijnveld’s Early Sensation is the earliest we grow. The bulk of the division flowers through March and into April, with Mount Hood and Mando among the last to go over.
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