Narcissus Double Gold Medal

Daffodil or Narcissus 'Double Gold Medal' is a very bright novelty, with double flowers and a full corolla of golden yellow with a plump and delicately blended golden yellow-orange heart. It blooms in April-May, at the end of the daffodil season. This small variety is a remarkable cut flower and an easy-to-grow, very hardy plant which naturalises easily in well-drained soil.

'Double Gold Medal' Double-flowered Daffodil belongs to the amaryllidaceae family. The Narcissus genus includes about 50 species mainly found in Western Mediterranean, but also in Africa and Asia. The 'Double Gold Medal' daffodil is a hybrid variety of N. Tazetta, a very robust plant that adapts to very different climates and conditions. 'Double Gold Medal' produces a very sturdy stem 25 to 30 cm (10 to 12in) tall when in bloom. It is a mid-late flowering plant, in April-May, with a large yellow-green floral bud that gives way to beautiful flowers, composed of a heart of small crumpled golden yellow and orange petals intertwined with each other on a corolla of larger, equally golden yellow petals. Double-flowered Daffodils have an extra crown of petals and a long flowering period. The deciduous, linear foliage disappears in summer. 

There is such a wide variety of daffodils that you can enjoy them for three months in spring without ever getting bored. They can all naturalise easily, have a love for yellow and white, and often emit sweet fragrances. These are all reasons to grow them in large clumps (at least 20 bulbs) for a mass effect. Combine 'Double Gold Medal' in slightly formal flowerbeds with scilla and hyacinths, double tulips, forget-me-nots, pansies or liverworts. A bunch of 'Double Gold Medal' double-flowered daffodils in a vase will look sensational. It is simply perfect in pots.

Daffodil or Narcissus? Botanically speaking, daffodils are part of the narcissus family. They have flowers grouped in twos or more and their corolla forms a longer campanulate trumpet than the corolla is wide. The botanical species have the charm of wild plants and thrive in rockeries: N.bulbocodium, N. canaliculatus, N.juncifolius, N.pseudonarcissus and the simple woodland daffodil are among the prettiest ones. In vases, we advise you not to mix daffodils with other flowers such as tulips, as the stems of daffodils contain a substance that causes other flowers to wither quickly. You can mitigate this detrimental effect by dipping the ends of the daffodil stems in hot water for 1 to 2 minutes.