Carters Daffodils

Now that I received my bulbs from Q Daffs USAs what do I do prior to planting?

First I record the new purchased varieties in an excel spreadsheet. I have over 1,000 named varieties and over 3,000 seedlings so a spreadsheet is a good way to manage the data. The spreadsheet shows where the bulbs are planted and how many bulbs or flowers they produce each year. Also my spreadsheet shows who and where they were created. It is important in a daffodil show to know what country they originated from since there are categories like Flowers hybridized in the USA . My spreadsheet also automatically creates a link to daffseek.org which shows the family tree of the bulb. As an example a common daffodil called Ice Follies the link to daffseek.org is

https://daffseek.org/detail-page/?cultivar=Ice%20Follies

As daffseek.org shows pictures, who created the flower, when it was created, family tree etc. It originated almost 70 years ago in the Netherlands. Since it has been around for so long and it is very vigorous it is likely you may have some in your garden.

Detail Page – DaffSeek Daffseek database details for daffodil (Narcissus) 'Ice Follies' with 20 photos, including parentage, pedigree tree, descendants chart, and original breeder comments.

I've always knew the Pacific Northwest was hot spot for growing daffodils. Doing a bit of research I found an article taking about the history of growing daffodils in WA state. A thanks to the American Daffodil Society for having sources of daffodil information.

PUBLISHED BY PUGET SOUND SEED CO., INC.
La Conner, Wash.
Printed in the United States of America by
Sweeney, Straub & Dimm, Portland, Oregon
FIRST EDITION, SEPT, 1, 1946

NORTHWEST BULBS

Shortly before -World War I, several Puyallup Valley farmers imported some Narcissus bulbs from Holland and England. Among the best known of the group were Frank Chervenka, Hamilton Kronen, George Lawler and Charles Orton, mostly extensive raspberry fanners. who took this up as a hobby. Daffodils
now grown by the millions in America. Then our Government stepped in. The U. S. Department of Agriculture calmly announced that Daffodils grown from these farmers. Northwest bulbs Flowered two weeks in advance of imported ones especially
when forced in greenhouses. Then Congress passed the law preventing European bulbs' being imported after 1926 on account of danger of diseases and pests. The Hollanders soon found that the soil and climate here was even better for Daffodils than their native land. Many moved here. Today there are several large farms from B. C. to the Siskivous. located at Lynden, Puyallup, Sumner, Tacoma, in the Skagit area between Mount Vernon
and La Conner. and in the Grays Harbor district in Washington also in several areas of Oregon including Sandy and the fertile river valleys south of Portland. Here millions of Daffodils (and other bulbs) are grown each year and shipped to every area of this great country. There are only two other places in the World where Narcissus are grown commercially in any quantity both of these in Europe. Some of the largest fields of Daffodil bulbs are located in Holland. The other important areas are all located on the East coast of England in the Romney and Lincolnshire marshes. In an event it is quite reasonable to expect that there will be an annual
demand for the millions of bulbs grown in this great Northwest.