Longfield Gardens Blog

It’s always such a long wait for spring’s first flowers. When they finally burst on the scene, the bounty of blooms combined with months of pent up flower energy is almost too much to handle! My favorite way to cope with this delightful moment of excess is to cut lots of stems and make lots of bouquets. Week after week, every room in my

Topics: Cut Flowers , Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , How-To , Spring Blooming Bulbs , Tulips

This guest post about daffodils was written by Melinda Myers, nationally-known gardening expert, TV/radio host, author & columnist . Daffodils are probably my favorite spring flowering bulbs. Their cheery color, animal resistance and versatility makes it easy to incorporate them into any size landscape. Plus, the variety of bloom times gives you flowers for the entire spring season.

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Inspiration , Spring Blooming Bulbs

Classic daffodils are easy to recognize. They have a prominent trumpet surrounded by six petals. Double daffodils look completely different. They have at least one extra layer of petals and no sign of a trumpet! With double daffodils, there is little difference between the perianth (petals) and the corona (trumpet). Both of these flower parts look like petals,

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Spring Blooming Bulbs

If I had to choose my favorite daffodil, I’d probably pick a yellow one with a big trumpet. Yellow trumpet daffodils are far and away the world’s most popular style. But why stop there when the daffodil world has so much more to offer!

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Inspiration , Spring Blooming Bulbs

  Daffodils blooming means spring has arrived and warmer days are ahead! I love seeing their bright yellow, orange and white blossoms popping up all over my garden and landscape. Unfortunately, daffodil foliage that hangs around too long is not what I wanted to see in my garden, so I needed a solution!

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Inspiration , Perennials , Spring Blooming Bulbs

Nothing shouts, “spring” like daffodils. Their sunny flowers, blooming in carefree abundance, are the perfect tonic after a long winter. Daffodils make it easy to create an ever more impressive show of color. As soon as the bulbs have finished blooming, they get right to work storing up energy for the next spring. As the bulbs replenish their

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Garden Design , How-To , Spring Blooming Bulbs

Spring-flowering bulbs have got to be tough. On an early spring day, it can be freezing in the morning and 80 degrees by afternoon. Climate change is intensifying these temperatures swings, especially on the warm end of the spectrum. With this in mind, we are using our trial garden to identify varieties with superior staying power. We are looking for heat-resistant, long-lasting spring

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Spring Blooming Bulbs , Tulips

One of the best things about spring-flowering bulbs is how quickly they come into bloom. At the first sign of warmer weather, they practically leap from the ground and burst into flower.  Spring bulbs are uniquely adapted to being the first flowers on the scene. Their buds aren’t bothered by freezing temperatures and are able

Topics: Alliums , Daffodils , Spring Blooming Bulbs , Spring Blooming Flowers , Tulips

After months of harsh winter weather, I am desperate for flowers. And to my eyes, there’s nothing more satisfying than a meadow of daffodils: drifts of delicate blossoms, fluttering and dancing in the breeze, blooming in carefree abundance. Daffodils are the best bulbs for naturalizing. They grow almost anywhere, multiply readily, and the bulbs are

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Spring Blooming Bulbs , Spring Blooming Flowers

Each fall we plant more than 10,000 flower bulbs in our trial gardens. That’s a lot of bulbs and it takes us more than a week to plant them all. But we find there’s no better way to evaluate performance, verify heights and bloom times, and experiment with mixes and combinations. During April and May the trial garden

Topics: Daffodils , Fall Planted Bulbs , Muscari , Tulips