I want to grow some wild English daffodils in grass in my garden, do they multiply quickly?

The English daffodil, or Lent Lily, of which Wordsworth glimpsed 10,000, is narcissus pseudonarcissus. It is a wild species that relies far more on seeds than on bulb division for maintaining and increasing its population. Bulbs of this species put into a normal commercial regime fail to increase satisfactorily; any bulbs offered for sale are are likely to have been lifted from the wild, which is against the law, and rightly so..


The closely related Tenby daffodil, (narcissus pseudonarcissus obvolaris) is an alternative suggestion. It is a brighter yellow and of smarter form. It is widely available

I want to grow some wild English daffodils in grass in my garden, do they multiply quickly?
Yes - and they don't always stay in the same area either - you can find them popping up all over the place.





Be warned though - if you cut the green leaves off when you cut the grass (after they have finished flowering) you may get them growing 'blind' the next year. This means that you only get the leaves again and no flowers because the plant did not have a chance to make and store enough 'energy' to produce a flower. The flowers will come back the year after.


This means that if you have them dotted about, you need to cut the grass really carefully, or you have to not mind a messy lawn and cut it after all the leaves have died back (this is a surprisingly long time).
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