Nobody ever says “I should have planted fewer narcissus bulbs” when the flowers start blooming in springtime. With their cheery bobbing heads, these happy harbingers of spring lift your spirits when ...

Before the latest hard freeze, my paperwhites (Narcissus papyraceus) were in full bloom. Perhaps no fl oral symbol epitomizes the impending arrival of a Southern spring as does the blooming of our ...

Daffodils, jonquils, narcissus – they all are the same flower with a different moniker. They are actually March’s flower of the month escorting in spring, but I bring the column in February because ...

The first hint of spring is trumpeting, so to speak, in the South with the arrival of the narcissus or daffodil. I hate writing about flowers that are opposite their planting season but on the other ...

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