“'Minnow' miniature daffodil stands just eight inches tall, which makes it super easy to tuck right at the front of your flower borders. Its cheerful, fragrant flowers provide early interest and look…”
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'Minnow' Miniature Daffodil Fills Spring Gardens with Fragrance
'Minnow' miniature daffodil stands just eight inches tall, which makes it super easy to tuck right at the front of your flower borders. Its cheerful, fragrant flowers provide early interest and look adorable alongside early tulips, grape hyacinths, eastern columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), and other petite spring favorites. This little daffodil is heat-tolerant and performs beautifully in both northern and southern gardens — plus, you can even use it for indoor forcing!
Common name: 'Minnow' miniature daffodil
Botanical name: Narcissus 'Minnow'
Flowers: Starting in mid-spring, each bulb puts out a handful of tiny daffodil flowers all clustered together on one stem. Creamy white petals and sepals frame a shallow, butter-colored central cup. They're sweetly fragrant and last a long time in the garden — and yes, they make lovely cut flowers too.
Foliage: Medium green, long and narrow — perfectly in proportion with the flowers.
Size and habit: 'Minnow' is a miniature daffodil, reaching only 8 inches tall — it's a little cutie.
Growing 'Minnow' miniature daffodil
Exposure: Full sun to part shade
How to grow it: Plant 'Minnow' bulbs in fall, burying them at a depth about three times their height. Pick a spot that gets full sun in spring while the bulbs are actively growing and blooming. Once they go dormant they don't need sun, so planting under deciduous trees that leaf out later in spring works great. 'Minnow' is a really good naturalizer — it'll multiply and fill in a space nicely over time. If the bulbs stop blooming after several years, that's usually a sign they need dividing to give them more room. USDA Zones 5–9.
