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This video shares the best daffodil varieties to plant along with practical growing tips.
I talk about planting methods, care, and expert advice to help bulbs establish successfully and produce beautiful, healthy flowers. Choosing the right varieties ensures reliable blooms.
Ideal for gardeners wanting easy-to-follow guidance for planting and growing daffodils at home.
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What are the best varieties of daffodils
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to plant for some spring color in your
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garden? Welcome to Gardening with Ben.
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We're now in autumn in October and we're
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going to be planting our daffodil bulbs
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today. We've got so many varieties to
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plant down here and you don't realize,
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but there is so many varieties of
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daffodil to choose from to plant these
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days. They can be small ones, they can
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be pink ones, they can be centered ones,
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they can be white ones, there's even
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pinky colored looking daffodils. Now, so
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there's many varieties out there from
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your plain simple ones. And the
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varieties that I like to choose are the
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unusual looking varieties as they do add
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a bit of extra detail to the garden.
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They're absolutely gorgeous to grow. So,
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the varieties that we're going to be
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planting are the daffodils double. And
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these are the varieties that we've got
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planted today. Absolutely great variety.
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There's 25 bulbs in here. So, we've got
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a few packs of them. We've also got a
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daffodil mixed variety,
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which is a great variety. Lots of
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different varieties of daffodil. So
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hopefully we're going to have some
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amazing displays down here at the a
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lotment. Now obviously when you're
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planting your daffodils, you need to
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plant them nice and deep. So make sure
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you've got a bulb planter so that you
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can get to the good depth of the art.
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They usually say plant them double the
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bulb length down. And obviously if you
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plant them deep then you can grow stuff
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on top in the summertime and use that
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space wisely. So we're going to a
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fantastic display in our new area of our
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a lotment at the top which hopefully
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come springtime will look absolutely
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gorgeous and you'll be able to come back
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in spring and have a look at how well
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it's getting on down here. But yeah,
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we've been working hard. We've been
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planting up our rockeries and now it's
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time to plant our daffodil balls. We
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won't be planting as tulips until the
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end of October, beginning of November
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because that can risk with tulip fire.
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So, let's see what we're going to be
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planting today and where we're going to
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be planting it. So, this is our new bed
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that we planted at the top of the plot.
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We planted some winter pansies to add
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some color throughout the winter time.
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We've got a few more pansies to plant as
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I'd ran out the other day, but we've got
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a few more to put in there. It's not
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bulging with pansies, but come
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springtime when all the bulbs are out,
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it'll look absolutely gorgeous. We've
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got bulbs in the top bit like crocuses.
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and
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blue bells, muscar. So, it's going to
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look absolutely good or color towards
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the back part of it. We're going to
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plant the daffod uh the tulip bulbs as
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they're taller and we're going to plant
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the daffodils towards the front. So, I'm
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going to use a cane so I know where I've
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planted them and so then I can plant the
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tulips at the end of the month and get
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those in. So, yeah, let's get them all
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laid out and in place and see how well
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it looks. So, we've laid out all the
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daffodil bulbs in front of them canes so
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that we know where to plant the tulips
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towards the back bit, which will be at
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the end of the month. But yeah, now to
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get all these planted nice and deep and
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fingers crossed in springtime, this is
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going to look absolutely phenomenal with
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plenty of color and hopefully attract
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the bees to the plot. So, let's get them
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all planted.
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And there we are. They're all planted
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now. Make sure you come back in
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springtime to see how well the displays
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look down here and see if they do
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actually look any good.
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So, I hope you've enjoyed watching
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today's video on spring bulbs on
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daffodils.
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follow to stay up to date with all our
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videos and how well it'll look come
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springtime. So until next time everyone
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remember keep smiling, keep shining and
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keeping with everyone.
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