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Thalia Daffodil

Narcissus triandrus 'Thalia'

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Perfect for a shrub border or mass plantings, this victorian variety Thalia is elegant, wild style flowers on stems producing multiple blooms. Sweetly fragrant. (Narcissus triandrus)

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Triandrus Daffodils are the ones hybridized from the wild species that offers several flowers per stem. Thalia has elegant, nodding wild-style flowers on stems up to 16' tall. And each stem branches into two to four flowers, all with heavy fragrance. Like Actaea, the Poet's Daffodil, this one is another wonderful daffodil for wild gardens. Plant them once, and they're yours forever.

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
  • Fragrant
  • Container Planting
  • Deer Resistant
  • Squirrel Resistant

Additional information

Mature Height

10-12" tall

Bulb Spacing

6 per sq ft

Soil Type

  • Acidic Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil
  • Loamy 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 3
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8

Additional Information

6 per sq ft
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Overall rating: 4.7 / 5 from 10 reviews.

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Spring Garden Staple - Ordered More!

"Crisp, delicate white blooms with an intense fragrance. Stems & foliage remained sturdy through inclement weather, and were accurate to size. Blooms lasted the entire month of April, and also made a great cut flower. Definitely regretted not planting a larger amount -- but planted more for Spring 2024! Mid-level gardener, Zone 7 NJ."

— @perennialtherapy (5/5)

Half bloomed, half didn't

"Planted thalia bulbs in a large new garden along with a number of other daffodil bulbs. These were the only ones that lagged—greenery but no blooms on half of them. We did have a particularly cold and rainy/snowy winter, perhaps these bulbs are less hardy than some."

— Janears (3/5)

So beautiful

"I love these - they all came up and I find the white clustered blooms to be very charming! I will be looking into other white daffodils for next year."

— LB (5/5)

Worth the wait.

"Thalia bloomed later then most other daffodils. Impressed with first year blooms. The white blooms really pop. I'm buying more. The bulbs I planted in the dryer areas definitely performed better."

— Tim (4/5)

Outstanding!

"Still blooming after a month. I have them in a bucket on the front porch and they have exceeded my expectations. Still blooming and it's been a month now."

— Thal (5/5)

So dainty!

"Wispy and not too big. A dainty, petite bloom, but that is what I wanted. Light in color, thin in stem & leaves. A heavy rainshower toppled a few, but they were fine after I emptied the water from them - they perked right up."

— Turkey (5/5)

ethereal glowing white

"Beautiful pure white blooms look best with strong contrast. Later blooming, delicate appearance."

— Verdantmuse (5/5)

Unique and lovely flowers!

"Very healthy and hardy plants--all of my bulbs came up and bloomed their first year after a long and cold winter. Plants look neat and delicate--leaves are thin, upright and deep green and flowers are smaller than expected from website picture. The multiple blooms are still stunning. Flowers are creamy white and look exotic when compared to other daffodils. Blooms are fragrant but not overly sweet. Definitely a winner if you are looking for an elegant spring flower."

— Sarah (5/5)

Thalia are lovely, delicate, and hardy

"These are truly lovely bulbs to have in your spring garden. They are a soft white, which complements other colors or stands beautifully alone. The shape is graceful, elegant and unique, with a lovely perianth that floats upward. A clump of Thalia looks almost like a cluster of butterflies or birds softly resting amongst greenery. The flowers are fragrant and I have found them to be hardy and prolific."

— Deborah (5/5)

These are so beautiful! Would buy again!

"These are beautiful with other bulbs or just a couple here and there!"

— HJ (5/5)

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