Miniature perfection

Whwn I moved in here (Housing Association) 32 years ago, the front gardens in this road were open plan. No property dividers, scruffy grass with yarrow and other weeds. I tentatively started turning my patch into a garden, waiting to see if the HA objected. More people followed suit. About 15 years ago the road of some 70 properties won the local "in Bloom", Road category.

Now it would have to be entered in a "Carpark" category, if there were one as gardens are converted into off-road parking when new people move in. There are maybe half a dozen or so cultivated plots left, of which mine is one. I guess when I depart this mortal realm, mine will suffer the same fate.

Where will the local cats and sparrows hang out?

ClicketyClick

I know just how you felt Bluesmum as same happened to my last garden. 30+ years of evolved planting which the estate agents valuing the property said was a big selling point. Lots of positive comments from the buyers who then ripped everything out because they are not gardeners. Had I have known, I'd have took what I could with me.

Exactly the same happened to us after over 30 years of tending our garden! No idea what it looks like in the back garden, but the front looks awful and everything has died. We so wish we had taken more plants with us when we moved!

I have some teeny tiny daffodils can't remember if I kept the label. They are daffodils for dolls houses, I have them in a sink with various other rock plants

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No lol the mystery is solved. The really tiny one on the left is Sambrosa and the larger ones on the right are Jetfire.

ClicketyClick

Yes, Jetfire are the ones on the right with the orange trumpet. The one I couldn't identify is the tiny one to the left in the plant pot. Thanks for all your help and happy gardening.

Oh, another mystery!

Thry are beautiful I adore miniature daffodils, actually prefer them to the larger varieties. A little pot of them seems to bring the spring inside. They could be Grande Soleil D'Or or Jetfire. Enjoy them whatever they're called x

Yes, Jetfire are the ones on the right with the orange trumpet. The one I couldn't identify is the tiny one to the left in the plant pot. Thanks for all your help and happy gardening.

Yep, I've been Google lensing most of this afternoon because I hate a mystery. I've just been in the garden weeding and spotted others growing in the flower bed and there was the disintegrating packet part hidden under soil and plants! They are narcissi sambrosa. I'll sleep now tonight

Allira

glammagran

Clicketyclick - you could take a photo of them. Then look in your photos and if you’ve got google lens installed it will tell you the name of your daffodils. It’s something I use quite often to identify objects including buildings.

That's what I did, shhhh! Don't tell anyone.

They're Jetfire

Yes, Jetfire. I’ve had mine for many years and they are my favourite variety.

I think they are Jetfire, too.
I got a free packet of about 20 little bulbs years ago when I bought some tulip bulbs. The tulips only lasted a few years; but the miniature Jetfires have proliferated so much I now have 2-3 hundred blooms every spring lining the path down to my garden shed. They are an absolute delight.

glammagran

Clicketyclick - you could take a photo of them. Then look in your photos and if you’ve got google lens installed it will tell you the name of your daffodils. It’s something I use quite often to identify objects including buildings.

That's what I did, shhhh! Don't tell anyone.

They're Jetfire

Clicketyclick - you could take a photo of them. Then look in your photos and if you’ve got google lens installed it will tell you the name of your daffodils. It’s something I use quite often to identify objects including buildings.

Your dwarf bulbs may possibly be Narcissus Baby Moon. The slightly taller ones are, as someone else has said, Jetfire.

They're called Jetfire, I think.

Very pretty! I wish I'd heaved out the pelargoniums in my tubs and replanted more miniature daffs instead. The last ones ended up filling the tubs and I planted them in the lawn, where they came up and flowered this year.

I know just how you felt Bluesmum as same happened to my last garden. 30+ years of evolved planting which the estate agents valuing the property said was a big selling point. Lots of positive comments from the buyers who then ripped everything out because they are not gardeners. Had I have known, I'd have took what I could with me.

When my dh was alive, every Spring me would buy me the little pots of miniature daffs every week and when they finished flowering I planted the bulbs in a large planter in my front porch, under my kitchen window. They really were an absolute delight, multiplying in number and coming up year after year to herald the arrival of Spring. I often wonder if they are still there, I doubt it though as the lady that bought my house absolutely decimated my beautiful front garden, including my prize hydrangeas I had had for over 20 years and a beautiful magnolia tree, which apparently they uprooted by tying it to a tow bar on their car and pulling it out, to make way for parking spaces! Heathens!

What joy these little flowers bring, Clickety Click. I hope that they return year after year for you.

They are lovely x

I deliberatley never lable plants so I get lovley surptises in the spring, plus the ones I know I never planted and the birds/squirels must have planed for me

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I don't know either, but they are beautifully formed and look so cheerful where there are!

Lovely! I’ve had these before but they didn’t come back so 🤞🏻 for yours.

There are various varieties of miniature daffodils and narcissi so could be any one of those. Very pretty!