Description
The true ‘Angels Tears’ daffodil has become a very scarce item in recent years. Wholesalers and gardens centres used to import this by the million from the wild each year, the dried bulbs rarely did well. This trade has rightly ceased, however raising it from seed is a long and slow process, hence the price will never be what it once was in garden centres, as each bulb reflects a minimum of 5-6 years work.
In March and April the price paid fades into insignificance as you see the superb flowers, sometimes several to each short stem, with their pendulous, pale yellow trumpet and the reflexed segments of the same pale primrose yellow or white.
A beautiful plant happy in a well drained soil in light shade or even woodland edge conditions. They are naturally small and even flowering sized bulbs are not large, that is just how the plant is. Yes the price is each, these are nursery-raised and represent five to six years of careful cultivation of bulbs. They are not wild dug imports. The whole triandrus complex incidentally has been the subject of a lot of recent reclassification and you might also wish to check Narcissus coronatus, pallidulus and iohannis on our site, to make sure you are buying the plant that you actually want, actual true triandrus is perhaps the scarcest (in cultivation) of the species in this complex but unfortunately the name is freely used in horticulture to mean different species.
Raised from seed collected in the province of Burgos in northern Spain.
