Daffodil Planting Care Tips: How to Plant Daffodils In Your Garden

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How to plant daffodil bulbs

If you live in zones 4 to 6, the best time to plant daffodils is as soon as they are available in September and early October.

When growing daffodils, they should be planted in groups of ten or more. All you do is make a loose circle with about seven bulbs and put three in the middle.

For aesthetic reasons, you donít want to mix different cultivars within each planting group. The effect will be better if you plant one kind together (such as a group of ten ìIce Folliesî, but not a group of ìIce Folliesî mixed with ìSpellbinderî, etc.). You can plant these in bigger blocks if your space allows it using 25 or more bulbs. Daffodils look great in a formal garden with shapes like squares or circles. Even tapered, fish-shaped plantings look great.
Steps for planting daffodil bulbs

1. Be sure to plant daffodil bulbs with the pointy end up and the fatter, somewhat flattened end down.
2. Plant your daffodils twice as deep as the bulb is tall. In other words, if a bulb is 2 inches from the base to the tip, you would dig a 6-inch deep hole. You donít need to measure the hole, you can just judge it. Larger bulbs go deeper of course, and smaller bulbs go closer to the surface. Plant the bulbs more deeply in sandy soil, and more shallowly in heavier, clay-type soils.
3. You will want to cover the bulbs with soil and then water them well after youíre finished planting them. Mulch the area with pine bark mulch, chopped leaves, or whatever you usually use as mulch to help protect it.

In zones 6 and 7, garden daffodils will bloom in April, but sometimes sooner in a mild winter region (zones 8 and 9). Of course, this means they bloom later in colder regions.

Growing daffodils is very reliable and they will come back year after year. Combining them with other kinds of plants such as perennials, annuals, and shrubs, will make your garden a livelier and most interesting area.

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