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Apricot Whirl Butterfly Daffodil

Narcissus 'Apricot Whirl'

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This ruffled beauty boasts elegant, double white blooms with apricot-peach centers. Try planting with other Butterfly Daffodils for an exquisite statement in mid spring. (Narcissus)

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Apricot whirl brings pure elegance to the Butterfly Daffodil with stunning, double white blooms with apricot-pink centers.

Naturalizing Daffodils. Probably nothing in the gardening world is more foolproof and more rewarding than 'naturalizing' daffodils. Because unlike most other garden flowers, these fantastic plants are super-easy to plant in fall, they don't care about soil, as long as it's well-drained, and they'll bloom beautifully for you with absolutely no work every spring after you plant them. Best of all, daffodils increase over the years, each bulb developing into a blooming clump. All you have to do is pick the spots. The one thing to remember is that you won't be able to mow that area until the tops die down. Everything else takes care of itself. In a new or established wildflower meadow, the wildflower plants grow up around the daffodils hiding the fading foliage, so there's no work to do. And if you're planting wildflower seed, what could be easier that to pop in the bulbs when you have the ground already turned?

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Naturalizing Daffodils: Probably nothing in the gardening world is more foolproof and more rewarding than 'naturalizing' daffodils. Because unlike most other garden flowers, these fantastic plants are super-easy to plant in fall, they don't care about soil, as long as it's well-drained, and they'll bloom beautifully for you with absolutely no work every spring after you plant them. Best of all, daffodils increase over the years, each bulb developing into a blooming clump. All you have to do is pick the spots. The one thing to remember is that you won't be able to mow that area until the tops die down. Everything else takes care of itself. In a new or established wildflower meadow, the wildflower plants grow up around the daffodils hiding the fading foliage, so there's no work to do. And if you're planting wildflower seed, what could be easier that to pop in the bulbs when you have the ground already turned?

About the Wild Daffodils: Like wild tulips which are more the size of crocus, most of the wild daffodils are tiny too. They're generally small wildflowers that have been hybridized by the Dutch into the big tall beauties we know today.

Unlike tulips which are native to Central Asia, daffodils are European wildflowers, native to areas of France, Spain and Portugal.

Holland is not the ancestral home of any bulb flowers. But it's the home of almost all the hybrids, since the Dutch hybridizers have not only created thousands of new flowers gardeners love, they've developed a huge national industry that supplies bulbs to gardeners worldwide.

To a wild gardener, of course, the original un-hybridized species (and their close hybrids) are all interesting, and even better, they're all dependably perennial. Plant them once, and they're there forever. Unlike the hybrids which develop bigger and bigger clumps each year, and have to be divided every few seasons for good bloom, the wild species simply spread, like they do in the wild. So there is no maintenance for the wild bulbs, once you get them established.

Here are the major wild species:

  • Narcissus tazetta
  • Narcissus triandrus
  • Narcissus pseudonarcissus
  • Narcissus jonquilla
  • Narcissus poeticus recurvus
  • Narcissus clyclamineus'

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade

Bloom Time

Mid spring

Advantages

  • Bee Friendly
  • Naturalizes
  • Easy To Grow
  • Cut Flowers
  • Container Planting
  • Deer Resistant
  • Squirrel Resistant

Additional information

Mature Height

14-16" tall

Bulb Spacing

6 per sq ft

Soil Type

  • Loamy Soil
  • Acidic Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Dry

Flower Bulb Size

14-16 cm

Planting Depth

6" deep

Planting Time

  • Fall

Plant Classification

Introduced Cultivar

Growing Zones

  • Zone 2
  • Zone 3
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9

Poisonous or Toxic to Animals

Yes - Bulbs, blooms, leaves, and stems all contain toxic compounds, which are most concentrated in the bulb.
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Overall rating: 4.6666665 / 5 from 12 reviews.

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So beautiful!! Deer resistant too. Best part

"So beautiful. My favorite daffodils. Love the peachy color. I hope they continue to bloom again year after year. First year blooming for us this spring."

— GH (5/5)

I'm buying more this year!

"I would have given this 5 stars except for the color: it's all yellow rather than apricot. I highly recommend these anyway. They came up nicely and are lasting a long time."

— Dustmouse (4/5)

A very pretty Daffodil

"Such a pretty peach colored Daffodil. I planted these Apricot Whirl Daffodil bulbs in groups of 5 underneath my Dogwood Tree and by spring nice clumps of them were blooming."

— JkNY (5/5)

Truly lovely!

"These apricot daffodils were a delight - a bit of elegance and new color among my lovely typical daffs. I'll purchase more for next year,"

— Maine G. (5/5)

Multiple blooms per bulb, long lasting

"Came up a little bit later than standard daffodils. So hang on, the show is coming! :-) Even though I only ordered four bulbs, I got many more than only four flowers the first spring. The blooms have been going for weeks and don't show any signs of stopping. In my yard they were a little less pink than shown and a little more Dusty peach/apricot color. They are so unusual between that beautiful color and the ruffled butterfly double look. These have exceeded my expectations! I didn't take any special care to plant these, I simply dug a shallow trench (aka scooped out a shallow shovelful of dirt), planted at the suggested depth and then covered them up again with dirt and then a couple of inches of tree leaves. I watered a few times to get them settled in, then ignored them all winter. In the early spring I watered once or twice more, Since I had planted them in a very dry spot."

— Crickets M. (5/5)

Oh! What a beauty.

"It is still nice to see such pretty flowers."

— Johnnie (5/5)

Peachy blooms!

"I planted these daffodils last fall and they were the first to bloom of all of my flowers. Be patient with them when they first open up, it takes them a week or so for them to really show off their peachy glow! I can't wait until all of them are up."

— Haylo (5/5)

Looks like a butterfly

"Pretty in color. Planted later than normal time, but they still came up fast."

— Bonbon (5/5)

deer leave these alone!

"these look great and do not get eaten!"

— Planting L. (4/5)

A bit disappointed

"A beautiful flower but only one bulb was an Apricot Whirl, the others were pretty but had a cream & yellow bloom quite like some of the others in the mix we ordered. We got the right number of bulbs, just not the variety we were wanting"

— Oleganny (3/5)

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