What to do in the garden for October with Pugh's Garden Village
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- Sep 25
- 2 min read
Our monthly column from Roger Crookes, the garden expert at Pugh's Garden Centre, gives us his top tips for growing our national flower.
Daffodils, they have been part of my life since I learned to walk! Our family home as we grew up had daffodils growing alongside the path to the front door, and now 60 years later I have planted them alongside the path to our front door plus some in the roundabout at the end of the road, and more on the grass verges alongside our road . I think I may have a Daffodil problem!
But why not?
We have planted several different varieties with flowering times from January right through until late April so we get at least 3 months of ‘golden surprises‘ as they burst into flower, what a source of joy our Welsh national flowers are. There are 3 important reasons I love to grow increasing numbers of Daffs;
1. They are very easy to grow, dig a hole, put some bulbs in said hole, cover with soil, wait until spring!
2. They come back year after year, many of ours in our garden, pots, roadside have been coming back for more than 5 years.
3. They are cheap (especially when you remember that they usually come back for many years)
Autumn is the time to plant bulbs and at both Pughs Garden Centres we offer around 60 different varieties of Daffodils and Narcissus with a wide flower colours, and several highly popular shorter stemmed varieties which are great in windy areas and perfect for pots and hanging baskets.
Two of my particular favourite daffodils
‘Tete a Tete’ (see picture) - by far the most popular dwarf daffodil with short sturdy stems and small but perfectly formed yellow trumpet flowers, often producing more than one bloom from each bulb so you can easily create a mass of dainty little flowers early in spring, appearing by mid to late February and lasting until around late March.
‘Golden Dawn’ – A later flowering, highly perfumed multi-flowering Narcissus with 2 or 3 orange and yellow flowers on each stem, we have some in our roundabout which keep on coming back each spring, ideal for cutting and placing in a vase in the house because of their sweet perfume.
