{"id":7105,"date":"2014-03-18T01:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2014-03-18T02:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:04:25","slug":"double-daffodils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/double-daffodils\/","title":{"rendered":"My Double Daffodils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice as much pleasure? Well for Mothering Sunday double Daffs will go down a treat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4541586808\/\" title=\"Double Daffodil Dick Wilden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4049\/4541586808_4e8f69c27d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Double daffodils\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Double the pleasure from Daffodils with extra petals or crinkly trumpets.<br \/>\nI am always on the look out for plants I want to grow next year. I am aiming for shock and awe varieties of common plants and specimen plant of an unusual nature. If I don&#8217;t make a note of them in my garden note book I will forget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4521008347\/\" title=\"Rip Van Winkle Daffodil by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4004\/4521008347_151b3ec11d.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Rip Van Winkle Daffodil\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>My choice of Double Daffodils <\/strong><br \/>\nDelnashaugh or Repleat have an apricot-pink centre and the slightly smaller Mary Copeland is also unusual.<br \/>\nDick Wilden is a sulphur coloured sport of Carlton and Golden Ducat or Von Sion are other all yellow doubles.<br \/>\nI grew Winston Churchill this year for cutting. A bit later flowering so I am now enjoying the scent.<br \/>\nObdam is the only pure white I have found but I can tolerate White Marvel, Acropolis and Bridal Crown in my white bed.<br \/>\nAfter the point above I then discover that  Thompson Morgan <\/a> sell 2 other white doubles, Erlicheer and Daffodil poeticus Plenus.<br \/>\nRip van Winkle has an unusual petal shape that appears to be a double. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4437942664\/\" title=\"Daffodil selection by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4004\/4437942664_3da6ccff7a.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Daffodil selection\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just a final word<\/strong> for Cheerfulness a really go doer from the Tazetta Division 8 not quite a double but with puffy centre petals that look the part.<\/p>\n<p>As with many flowers please have a close look and take your time to appreciate the fantastic choice we gardeners have available.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4437169021\/\" title=\"Daffodil selection by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2729\/4437169021_7c18ced6ce.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Daffodil selection\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice as much pleasure? Well for Mothering Sunday double Daffs will go down a treat. Double the pleasure from Daffodils with extra petals or crinkly trumpets. I am always on the look out for plants I want to grow next year. I am aiming for shock and awe varieties of common plants and specimen plant of an unusual nature. If I don&#8217;t make a note of them in my garden note book I will forget. My choice of Double Daffodils&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/double-daffodils\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24,95],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","tag-bulbs","tag-cut-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}