Horticulture

small & sweet

Daffodils (Narcissus) have so many selling points: They’re easy to grow and untroubled by rodents, beautiful to behold at winter’s end and oftentimes fragrant, too. A drawback in certain situations? The size a clump of daffs can achieve, both in height and width.

But in front-and-center spaces, amid delicate-looking companions or as an up-close spring vignette, miniature daffodils come to the rescue.

what miniature means

The American Daffodil Society (ADS) recognizes 13 divisions of daffodils, but “Miniature” is not one of them. However, they do recognize Miniature as a special class for cultivars with single flowers smaller than 1.97 inches across, or a multi-flowered head smaller than

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