Re: daffodils in California

**Catriona Tudor Erler c*@gardenvista.com**

The following is excerpted from the Village Garden web site.  It fits 
with my experience of growing daffodils in San Diego.  Catriona Tudor Erler

      "What bulbs do well in mild winter areas of California?

 Daffodils: These are easy here, and come back every year. There is a 
common misperception that these are hurt by water during the summer. 
This is not true, and they will decline and eventually disappear if not 
given some summer watering (they will rot out, however, if planted in 
poorly draining heavy soil). Newbies are often surprised to see 
daffodils blooming in late fall. These are the Tazetta division of 
daffodils, the ones commonly grown for forcing indoors. The only 
daffodils that do not do well in California are the Poeticus division, 
they bloom so late in spring the weather is too warm and they don't 
amount to much."
This is their list of daffs that do particularly well in Southern 
California:
"'Accent' -- large pink cup, white petals 'Arctic Gold' -- trumpet with 
deep all-yellow flowers 'Bantam' -- large orange-red cup and smallish, 
deep yellow petals 'Binkie' -- large sulfur yellow cup that fades to 
white, sulfur petals 'Bridal Crown' -- double-flowered, pure white 
'Carlton' -- large-cupped, soft yellow 'Ceylon' -- large pale orange 
deepening to orange red cup, golden petals 'Cheerfulness' -- white 
double tazetta 'Delibes' -- large-cupped, yellow petals, red-banded 
yellow cup 'Erlicher' -- small very fragrant, double white flowers in 
clusters 'February Gold' -- cyclamineus, golden yellow trumpet and pale 
yellow swept-back petals 'Festivity' -- yellow trumpet, large clear 
yellow cup, white overlapping petals 'Galway' -- large-cupped all gold 
'Geranium' -- tazetta, white and orange flowers 'Green Island' -- 
greenish lemon cup, white petals 'Hawera' -- triandrus, soft yellow, 
recurved petals, 5" 'Jenny' -- cyclamineus hybrid, white and yellow, 
swept-back petals 'Kinglet' -- jonquilla hybrid, fragrant, yellow 
petals, orange cups 'Mabel Taylor' -- large pink cup, ivory petals 
'Matador' -- tazetta, bright orange cup and sulfur petals, several 
fragrant flowers per stem 'Martha Washington' -- tazetta, red cups, 
white petals 'Mount Hood' -- trumpet, giant all white 'Rustom Pasha' -- 
large trumpet all yellow 'Silver Chimes' -- tazetta, several fragrant 
creamy white flowers per stem 'Sir Winston Churchill' -- double-flowered 
version of Geranium 'Suzy' -- jonquilla, small red cups, ruffled yellow 
petals 'Sweetness' -- jonquilla, rich yellow, fragrant 'Thalia' -- 
triandrus, all-white, 2-3 per stem 'Trevithian' -- jonquilla, bright 
yellow, 2-3 per stem 'Vigil' -- all white trumpet 'Vireo' -- jonquilla, 
fragrant, tiny greenish cup and gold petals, 9" 'Wee Bee' -- trumpet, 
tiny all-golden, 5" 'Yellow Cheerfulness' -- double tazetta, creamy yellow"

Yvonne Cunnington wrote:

>Thank to all who wrote with regard to planting daffs in California. I 
>learned something, my coresspondent has his answer and thanks you all.
>
>Happy New Year, Yvonne
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