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You know winter is nearly over when daffodils begin to emerge in your garden. These popular spring bulbs are most well-known for their yellow flowers but, depending on the variety, they also bloom ...
Many bulbs can still be planted in the garden in the winter, depending on your zone. But if it's too late to plant outside, you can grow bulbs indoors and plant them in your garden after they bloom.
Sternbergia lutea, the winter daffodil, [3] [4] autumn daffodil, fall daffodil, lily-of-the-field, or yellow autumn crocus, [a] is a bulbous flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, [5] in the Narcisseae tribe, which is used as an ornamental plant. It has yellow flowers which appear in autumn.
Why are your daffodils coming up early? What to know about the garden staple and how to protect early sprouters through the rest of winter.
The bulbs of this species are small and dark in colour. [3] Bulbs lay dormant in the soil for the majority of the year until emerging in the Spring. A single bulb usually produces two leaves each that can grow to a length of 20 cm long by 4–5 mm wide. Leaves are keeled, striate on their surface and sometimes coiled at the tip. [4]
Various common names including daffodil, narcissus, and jonquil are used to describe all or some members of the genus. The list of species is arranged by subgenus and section . Estimates of the number of species in Narcissus have varied widely, from anywhere between 16 and nearly 160, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] even in the modern era.
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