Narcissus Flowers: Daffodils and Jonquils To Brighten The Garden

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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We all love the early flowers of the spring months. But some of these should be started in the fall to produce those gorgeous displays. Narcissus flowers are high on that list. Daffodils, jonquils, and narcissus are all from the same genus of plant, and are easy plants to care for. These produce bright, showy flowers in sunny spots, delighting the eyes. And a few even produce a sweet scent, too! Excited to see narcissus flowers springing up after a cold winter? You’re not alone. Read on to discover exactly how to have this prolific spring surprise appear! Learn More: Narcissus Flowers: Daffodils and Jonquils To Brighten The Garden Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Show. Today on this Tuesday
0:04.9	We're gonna be talking about something that I typically don't talk about and that would be an
0:10.4	Ornamental flower. I don't I guess historically I have not given them
0:14.5	as much respect as maybe I should.
0:17.8	And also I've just been focused on edibles.
0:20.0	But as I'm moving into a more, I guess,
0:22.0	holistic approach to the garden, especially my
0:24.8	garden, bringing pollinators in, bringing some more aesthetic beauty in as well, I think
0:29.8	it's a good time to cover these bad boys.
0:32.4	So daffodils, junkwills, narcissists, they're all from the same
0:36.7	genus of plant and they're really easy plants to care for. They've got these beautiful, bright
0:42.2	showy flowers and even a bit of a nice scent as well if you're
0:47.6	prone to stopping and smelling the flowers as the old saying goes. Now when we're talking about Narcissus it's a very large
0:56.4	genius and it covers a lot of ground. There are around 13 separate divisions
1:02.3	of Narcissus according to the American
1:04.3	daffodil society but let's talk about the flowers components. At the back of
1:08.7	the flower is the hypanthium which is sometimes referred to as the floral tube.
1:13.0	That is the point in which the flower joins the actual stem.
1:17.0	Teples, or the petals that form the base of the flower,
1:21.0	they sit really low on the perianth, which is the base of the flower. They sit really low on the perianth, which is the base of the flower.
1:24.8	Finally, in the center is the corona which forms the well-known tube or trumpet-like shape that we know
1:32.0	Narcissus 4. Now I would read off all the different divisions
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