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It’s PYO Daffodil time!

Our Pick Your Own Daffodils opens on Good Friday 7th April 2023 After a very wet start Spring is on it’s way! Our daffodil patch is looking glorious and we can’t wait to share it with our visitors! We will be open over the Easter weekend and at specific times/dates throughout April. Entry tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite (see Book Now link on our homepage) There is a 10 minute walk to our daffodil patch – it is off the beaten track but that is part of it’s magic as it is the most beautiful sight when you arrive at the field and see the sea of yellow before you! There is a stream below the daffodil patch – care must be taken with young children. Picnics at the daffodils are welcome – but please take your rubbish home. Dogs on leads are also welcome. For any questions please check out our FAQ’s page. We can’t wait to greet our visitors and get our daffodil 2023 season underway!

Our Daffodil Varieties

We planted 7 different varieties of daffodil for visitors to come and pick – they all flower at different times starting in mid-March and carrying on right up until the end of April. There are usually 3 different varieties open at the same time which means there is always a lovely display of blooms. The daffodils are in rows and each row contains a mix of varieties. The most spectacular appear in mid-April and these are the multi-headed types such as Sir Winston Churchill and Primrose Beauty. Their scent is incredible.

How many daffodil bulbs did we plant?

Answer : 28,000!!! Did we plant them all by hand? Answer: Absolutely not!!! We hired a bulb planter which we attached to the back of the tractor. This had a hopper for the bulbs and as the tractor drove along the bulb planter cut a slit in the ground and a conveyor belt fed the bulbs into the trench. It was a team effort – my husband drove the tractor, my father-in-law filled the hopper and kept prodding the bulbs with a stick to keep them moving so that the hopper didn’t get jammed, and I walked along behind, kicking the turf back into place. It was tiring work particularly on the legs! It is heavy clay soil on our farm which is not the easiest to work with.

How it all began

How it all began! In September 2020 we planted our Pick Your Own daffodil patch. We chose a secluded meadow on our farm – the reason being that we needed a quiet corner of the farm where we could plant the bulbs and let them naturalise. A crop field would not do. It needed to be permanent pasture. Our sheep graze the area until the daffodils start to appear in the spring. The daffodil patch is a 10 minute walk along a grass track from the car parking field. At first we worried that this was too far to expect visitors to walk to the PYO but the feedback we have received has been overwhelmingly positive and the general consensus is that the beautiful scenic walk adds to the daffodil experience.