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Cheerfulness Double Daffodil

Narcissus 'Cheerfulness'

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Cheerfulness is the classic, fragrant multi-flowering double that started it all. Like a sweet smelling gardenia.(Narcissus).

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There are other double daffodils, but for years, Cheerfulness has been No. 1. There's really nothing else quite like it. The petals are a creamy white, and the exquisitely doubled centers are a ruffled mix of cream and lemon, sometimes with a tinge of pink. To top it off, each stem branches into a bouquet of up to three flowers.

Plant Cheerfulness in a spot where you'll enjoy it up close. Because its beauty and fragrance will make it your garden favorite.

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?

Planting & Care

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

  • 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: 4.0 / 5 from 5 reviews.

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A little disappointed

"I scattered different varieties of daffodils. Only 1 out of 6 - Cheerfulness bloomed. I was disappointed."

— GlassMan (4/5)

just beautiful. no problem growing them.

"Just beautiful. Very happy to see these daffodils sprout this spring. I love how they have double to triple flower buds."

— GH (5/5)

The photos are deceiving

"The first photo on this item listing makes the flowers seem more like a normal daffodil size. However they are much smaller and very cute. I'm still waiting on some to bloom. I noticed that at least one out of 8 is actually all yellow. At the time of photographing these, they were not as tall as they are now. This is also my first year for them in the ground."

— Allie B. (4/5)

A bit

"A pack of these came with my order of the "Lemon Chiffon" bundle. Only 2-3 of the 8 bulbs came up in both subsequent years after planting. As another reviewer noted, there are multiple (small) flowers per stem, but they are much smaller than a "traditional" daffodil. The overall effect is different, but they're pretty. Most of them were a white color overall, while one stem was bright yellow. Just wish more came up so they didn't look so random in the patch I planted them in!"

— Katie (2/5)

Spring show

"The bulbs arrived right on time, good quality bulbs! Much better than the local stores!"

— Shell (5/5)

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