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Thalia

Thalia is one of the later and more modest daffodils and my favourite, vying only with the smartness of the yellow February Gold.  By April I have had enough of yellow; the milky purity of Thalia's slightly downcast little flowers is a note of innocent freshness as spring gets busier and more hectic by the day.  The flowers come in pairs on graceful nodding stems over narrow leaves; a cultivar one could almost believe was a native wildflower.  In time, in good soil, a clump becomes too wide, much less graceful, and is better divided up.

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