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Snipe Miniature Daffodil

Narcissus cyclamineus 'Snipe'

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  • Snipe Daffodil charms with ivory-white petals and a soft buttery-yellow cup—a breath of early spring sunshine.
  • A graceful, heirloom-style bloomer, bringing a natural, meadowy look to beds and borders.
  • Perfect for naturalizing, creating drifts of cheerful color that return year after year.
  • Easy-care and deer-resistant, for effortless beauty with timeless spring appeal.

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Snipe Daffodil is a timeless spring treasure, beloved for its delicate contrast of ivory-white petals and a softly glowing buttery-yellow cup. With a look that feels both classic and gently whimsical, each bloom nods lightly in the breeze, bringing a sense of movement and quiet charm to the early-season garden.

Blooming in early to mid-spring, Snipe offers a fresh burst of color just as the landscape begins to wake. Its elegant form pairs beautifully with other spring bulbs and perennials, while its natural, slightly informal habit makes it especially well-suited for naturalizing in meadows, under trees, or along winding borders. Planted in clusters or sweeping drifts, it creates a soft, storybook effect that returns and expands with time.

This daffodil is as dependable as it is delightful. Bulbs are low-maintenance, deer-resistant, and long-lived, thriving in a range of conditions with minimal effort. Early blooms also provide a gentle signal to pollinators that spring has arrived, helping support a lively, biodiverse garden.

Plant bulbs in fall in well-drained soil and full sun to partial shade. Come spring, enjoy a luminous display that feels both effortless and enchanting, proof that classic beauty never goes out of style.

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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As soon as your order is placed you will receive a confirmation email. You will receive a second email the day your order ships telling you how it has been sent. Some perennials are shipped as potted plants, some as perennial roots packed in peat.  The ‘Plant Information’ section describes how that item will ship. All perennials and fall-planted bulbs are packaged to withstand shipping and are fully-guaranteed. Please open upon receipt and follow the instructions included.

Perennials and fall-planted bulbs are shipped at the proper planting time for your Growing Zone. Perennial and fall-planted bulb orders will arrive separately from seeds. If your order requires more than one shipment and all items are shipping to the same address, there is no additional shipping charge. See our shipping information page for approximate ship dates and more detailed information. If you have any questions, please call Customer Service at (802) 227-7200 or contact us by email or chat.

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Full Sun
  • Half Sun / Half Shade

Bloom Time

Early spring

Advantages

  • Bee Friendly
  • Mass Plantings
  • Naturalizes
  • Easy To Grow
  • Low Maintenance
  • Rock Gardens
  • Deer Resistant
  • Rabbit Resistant

Additional information

Mature Height

4-8" tall

Bulb Spacing

6" apart

Soil Type

  • Average Soil
  • Loamy Soil
  • Sandy Soil
  • Clay Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average

Planting Depth

6" deep

Planting Time

  • Fall

Plant Classification

Introduced Cultivar

Native To

Europe: Spain & Portugal

Growing Zones

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

Poisonous or Toxic to Animals

Toxic to dog, cats and horses.
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