Planting Daffodils & Narcissi
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What are naturalising bulbs? If you've caught yourself wondering that same question, here's Hannah to explain just what they are!
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0:05 Hi, I'm Hannah and I work for J. Parker's. Today I'm going to show you how to plant daffodil bulbs
0:10 and I'm going to show you in a container just for ease of the uh tutorial but you can also
0:16 plant them in the ground as well. So for this I've filled this terracotta pot um a little way up with
Fill your pot with compost
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multi-purpose compost and grit for drainage um so I've not filled it as much as some of the other
0:30 tutorials just because they need to be planted quite deep. Again, with other bulbs you need to
Find the right side of the bulb
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make sure that you're planting them the right way up so with a daffodil bulb that would be this way,
0:39 so there's an obvious point and an obvious flat part of the bulb, so you need to make sure it's
0:44 this way up and they need to be planted at three times the depth of the bulb, so that's why there's
Plant your bulbs
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not much compost in here, because they need to be quite deep it's quite a big bulb spacing wise
0:56 I'm going to put maybe six in here um and I'll show you the spacing after I've put them in um
1:03 but it's usually about double the size of the bulb. So I'm just going to pop them in... okay,
1:14 and then I always like to put one in the middle as well just so it looks full when they come through.
1:20 So it should look something like this. Okay and then I'm just going to cover that up with more
Top of the bulbs with compost
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multiple purpose compost and grit and then um and then I'll top it off with grit again. Okay so I've
1:50 just evened it out, so you want to aim to be doing this sort of September October time um and they'll
When to plant your bulbs
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start flowering um from sort of March onwards. What I like to do after this is to just cover
Adding potting grit
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it with grit. So it's just horticultural potting grit. Okay and I'll just even that out um and this
2:22 is mainly just to stop the slugs from eating the new shoots when they come through in the spring.
Watering tips
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And then watering wise I've used a damp compost and then because winter's quite a wet season,
2:33 you probably wouldn't need to water it again after that just because you don't want your bulbs to
2:38 rot off over the winter so I would just pop this where you eventually want them to sit um as long
2:44 as it's a sheltered space and then you won't need to water it over winter. And then again,
2:50 any daffodils that you are planting in the ground you just need to use um a bulb planter
2:55 and then the the rules are the same just uh three times the depth of the bulb and
3:00 they should come up fine and then what you want to do is label that and put it where you want
3:04 it um for your displays in the spring and then that should be that should be ready to go now.
How to Plant Indoor Narcissi
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0:00 Narcissi or Paperwhite Narcissi actually comes from the ancient word for papyrus
0:07 or paper-like and slowly over the years it's changed to Paperwhite but a
0:11 beautiful plant and the perfume of the Paperwhite is magnificent.
0:15 Now there's 15 in a collection and you could plant easily two pots this size
0:20 with those bulbs with one layer but what I like to do is pack them in so I'm
0:25 going to do it in two layers. So you'll get the whole 15 multi-headed and the
0:30 perfume is fantastic, easy-peasy. Few crocks in the bottom just to allow
0:35 drainage, couple of hand-fulls of compost it's easy as that and then a nice layer
0:43 of bulbs. Now, so I'll put about six or seven in the bottom and then in the gaps
0:51 between them I'll put some more compost on top like that and really couldn't be
1:00 easier and the perfume, I tell you, of these Paperwhites is fantastic. Now all
1:06 you need to do is a nice circle. Now don't worry about it, the bottom ones
1:09 will just push the way through. They really are wonderful and easy and it's
1:14 as simple as simple as that. That's all you have to do Paperwhite Narcissi.
1:21 Another two-inch layer on top and they're ready to go. All you need to do
1:27 then is keep them cool and you could call these clockwork bulbs because an
1:33 idea is, these after four to six weeks will flower and flower and flower, wonderful
1:40 perfume. Plant them in successions, week at a time,
1:44 and you've got flowers right the way through the Christmas period. I'll tell
1:49 you what they're beautiful so that's the Paperwhite. There are two others
1:52 available: Soleil D'Or and Early Cheer, both are
1:56 beautiful. They just take a little bit more care keep those in the dark, cover
2:00 them over with a paper for a few weeks, and otherwise they're exactly the same
2:04 as these. Multi-headed, beautiful perfume, but do try the idea are planting a pot
2:09 of these every week. Beautiful perfume in your house for the
2:13 whole of December, fantastic.
From the Expert
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0:00 So, I thought I'd give you some advice on what daffodil varieties to plant in your
0:04 garden to extend the flowering period. Similar to tulips, there’s three main
0:09 flowering periods for daffodils. So, there’s early, mid’s and lates. So,
0:13 the best thing to do is to choose a couple of varieties from each flowering period to make
0:18 them flower for as long as possible. You can choose one colour palette,
0:23 you might go for the paler varieties and have a few of those, or you might go for
0:27 larger daffodils or rockery daffodils. The choice is yours really, um, if you just choose a couple
0:33 from each flowering period then that would be ideal. You can then partner these up with
0:38 other flowering bulbs in the spring as well, so you can introduce some muscari or crocus,
0:43 or snowdrops and have both at the same time so that’ll give a lot of interest to your garden.
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