Next to tulips, daffodils are probably the second most beloved of the spring bulbs, the proverbial runner up in spring's popularity contest. They don't have the broad colour range of the tulips but they are beautiful and dependable coming back year after year with ever expanding clumps. Explore the surprising diversity of the humble daffodil.

Botanical tulips are the species and their cultivars that were originally used to breed the big hybrid tulips made so famous by the Dutch. These smaller, daintier versions of tulips offer cool forms and colours and they are usually much longer lived, coming back year after year and multiplying when happy.