Roundup: More Daffodil Bouquets

Daffodils are popping up everywhere and when Trader Joes has them for sale a a $1.99 a bunch you know we're gonna stock up. Faith even showed us some her favorite arrangements earlier this week. We often go with a simple bouquet that just involves snipping off a bit of the stem and throwing them in a pretty vase. But as with all things there are a lot of ways to incorporate these spring blossoms into your home. So start filling your home with springtime life and fresh cut (affordable) flowers and jump below for some of our favorite daffodil arrangements around the web:

Mixed with poppies on one of our favorite collumns over on Design Sponge, Weeder's Digest.

Faith mixes hers with other springtime flowers

These Cream Colored Daffodils would be beautiful mixed in with the bright yellow variety. From a rockridge life.

Mixing our favorite tulips with daffodils is simple and fun. From Chrisser.

Can't actually tell if these are, in fact, daffodils, but love the idea of filling unusal containers to the brim with full daffodils. These are from MIchelle Workman who posted a great tutorial on arranging flowers.

This spring bouquet incorporates hardier greens like eucalyptus along with springtime narcissus. From Eden Projects.

And from Martha this tight bouquets intended for a bride but just as beautiful in a vase. (Mix daffodils with yellow ranunculus and narcissus for the look on the left.) And check out Martha's guide to caring for daffodils right here.

Comments (9)

My TJ's daffodils lasted for 5 days and were 10 for $1.50. Best deal of the week - must get more!

posted by Sydney on April 2nd 2009 at 4:18pm
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Daffs have calcium oxalate crystals in their sap, so don't put them in a mixed bouquet and expect the other flowers to last. My TJs has them for $1.29, so you can stock up.

posted by FantasticMrFaux on April 2nd 2009 at 4:28pm
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of course, they are poisonous to cats. So none for me, unfortunatley. These are beautiful, especially Faith's bouquet.

posted by chusmabilly on April 2nd 2009 at 6:17pm
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thanks for the tip mr. faux!

posted by laure on April 2nd 2009 at 6:17pm
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Every April the Canadian Cancer Society sells daffodils to raise money in the fight against cancer. Cheery happy flowers for a great cause :)

posted by Tara77 on April 2nd 2009 at 7:51pm
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Tara77, you beat me to it :) A great cause, indeed! I know a lot of provinces/territories have Daffodil Days going on right now. You should be able to find sale dates and locations on the Canadian Cancer Society website:
http://www.cancer.ca/Canada-wide.aspx?sc_lang=en

posted by isadore on April 2nd 2009 at 9:04pm
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You know, I saw the comments about daffodils poisoning other flowers in arrangements, so I kept an eye on the arrangements I had going around the house. But they didn't seem to wilt any quicker - they all lasted about 10 days.

I wonder if maybe they only have that effect on certain flowers? Or if perhaps the Whole Foods' cut flower food neutralized the daffodils? I'm curious now.

posted by faith on April 3rd 2009 at 10:05am
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Once you cut the daffodils and give them a chance to leach out their sap (in a separate container of water), you can then go ahead and mix them in mixed bouquets without much harm to the other flowers.

posted by SoSue on April 3rd 2009 at 10:22am
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I just bought some at Trader Joes for 1.29! I love them mixed in with the tulips or other red flowers. I have mine right next to my computer and the smell is perfect. It feels like spring now. My mother has an amazing collection of colored glass bud vases and every year she fills them with bulbs (most paper whites) to bring a little spring to her cold New England townhouse.

posted by faithcrawford on April 8th 2009 at 5:05pm
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