Pink Daffodils

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » Mar 11, 2006 9:22 am

Anybody grow pink daffodils? I just got a catalog in the mail and the pictures are stunning! I really don't believe I've ever seen pink ones. Are they common and I just don't know it??

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Mar 11, 2006 10:15 am

Pink? Dunno.....

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Mar 11, 2006 12:07 pm

Are they all pink or just the 'trumpet' [not sure if that's the right term-??]. I've seen pics I think of some with creamy colored petals & a pink center. I have some that are like that but with a soft peach center. They're really pretty. But I don't think pink ones are common. I've never actually seen any. Just in the bulb magazines.

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Mar 11, 2006 1:09 pm

Last fall he planted some that SAID they were white with Pink centers. Sure hope so. They are up on his deck ad forming pods, shouldn't belong..... OC anxiously
awaiting...Them to Bloom

Minnow · Post by **Minnow** » Mar 11, 2006 1:48 pm

They are never as Pink as in the pics! Most of them are a salmon color or peachy looking! I will post some pics when mine start blooming!

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » Mar 12, 2006 2:51 pm

I agree with Minnow. The center on my double one (I don't remember the name) is such a pale pink it almost looks white. My Pink Charm looks more peach than pink. If you would like to try some Pink Charm, Pat, I'd be happy to send you some.

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 12, 2006 6:19 pm

I too agree with Minnow... fact, I would not cry if they are all gone... they have been down the hill for years

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » Mar 12, 2006 7:34 pm

Just the trumpet's are pink. some of them are ruffled, there's one that's a double. They're really pretty but there is a disclaimer that states that some of them start out apricot, yellow, or white and then gradually turn pink. So...not sure if I'm willing to spend the $30 for the collection but I'm sure tempted.

They're from Breck's. I won't post the website of another nursery but you can find it easily enough with a google search and then find the pink daffodil collection.

Minnow · Post by **Minnow** » Mar 12, 2006 8:13 pm

Brecks!

Try Brent & Becky Heaths site. Much better prices!

www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com

Of course I am sure they don't have the spring flowinng bulbs on line yet.

Kas · Post by **Kas** » Mar 13, 2006 2:14 pm

Pat, I would actually recommend John Sheepers instead of Breck's. They have a huge selection. I remember seeing what was touted as an all pink daff named 'Billy Graham' I think. It looked pretty, but I have not had any luck with daffs surviving the narcissus fly scourge. All my 'Thalia' are gone now. Those are my very favorite since they are so fragrant. You don't have to stick your nose in them to smell them.

Kas

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » Mar 13, 2006 9:59 pm

Thank you for the recommendations!

Now if I can just remember this discussion next fall. I wonder why they sent me that brochure now???

Kas · Post by **Kas** » Mar 14, 2006 3:52 am

Cause they know everyone is so ready for Spring and flowers that they will purchase now even though it is the wrong time. Some places like the bulb growers around here will have you order them now (you can just go to Mt. Vernon to see them in bloom) and then they ship to you in the Fall. Maybe that is what they are doing.

Kas

P.S. The annual Tulip Festival is something Mandy and Adam might enjoy. It is really beautiful to see, but the traffic is scary!

Kas

Garden_of_Mu · Post by **Garden_of_Mu** » Mar 14, 2006 11:34 am

I was very disappointed in how un-pink they were. Those pics are seriously retouched. I had three different ones that were supposedly baby-girl pink, and all were various shades of peach or salmon. they were really pretty actually, but when I was expecting one thing and got completely different one it was disappointing. If they sold them under the true color I think folks would go nuts for them - why do they need to make them out to be something they aren't?? Decoy is advertised as a 'red', but it is also a shade of orange. Nice deep color though. Here's some pics of mine.

DryGulch · Post by **DryGulch** » Mar 14, 2006 4:50 pm

As hardy as daffodil bulbs are, with your being in NW IL I woiuld be wary that they are truly hardy there. You are sort of on the edge for some types of daffodils...Erlicher for sure for example and depending on the year, Gold Ducat...

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » Mar 19, 2006 4:45 am

Aw shucks.

They look so gorgeous in the pictures...and truly, truly pink. Not orange, salmon, apricot, or anything else but true pink!

Mike..you're right......those are gorgeous daffy's, so why advertise them as anything other than what they are?

Drygulch.....Daffy's don't have any problems here in NW Illinois. They grow quite well.

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 24, 2006 5:34 pm

Mike yours are beautiful, mine looked dirty somehow - 4 differet sorts, but all the same dirty sad look.
Wish I could send some, here they are not more expencive than other daffs '

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 24, 2006 5:43 pm

Kas
What is

narcissus fly scourge.

and what do it do ?

Kas · Post by **Kas** » Mar 27, 2006 12:00 pm

It is a nasty little (not so little) fly that lays its eggs at the base of bulbs of the narcissus family. They are cute, fuzzy things that look sort of like a brownish bumble bee. But when the eggs hatch, the larva crawl down into the bulb and eat out the next years flower. All of my 'Thalia' are gone. Just foliage is all I get now. I have been slowly digging them up and cutting them open. The inside of the bulb is mush with these maggot looking larva in them. Yuck! They say sevin dust on the bulbs after flowering will do the trick, but I have a hard time using chemicals. I buy them, and then never use them. I'm a chicken!

Kas

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Mar 29, 2006 6:25 pm

Pinkest in our yard is one called Pink Pride.

Is it pink? Course not. But it is pretty. Brent and Becky don't sell this one.

oldcoot · Post by **oldcoot** » Apr 04, 2006 5:42 pm

Every pot and every bed turned out yellow !! BUMMER...Will try a different Vendor next year.....OC

Hallson Gardens

Pink Daffodils

Pink Daffodils

Oc will let you know in a few Days.

Just my two cents on pink daffodils

WSell, OC finally threw in the towell on his