Jacky Parker Photography

If you’ve ever needed a reason to smile after a long, gray winter, daffodils are it. These cheerful bursts of sunshine appear just when you need them most—bright, bold, and blissfully unbothered by the lingering chill.

Planting daffodils feels a bit like sending a gift to your future self: tuck the bulbs into the ground in fall, forget about them for a few months, and then—bam!—spring delivers a joyful surprise.

They’re low-maintenance, multiply over time, and look just as lovely in a polished garden bed as they do peeking through a patch of lawn. Perhaps the only tricky part about growing daffodils is getting the timing of their planting just right in the fall.

There’s one easy-to-recognize weather event that signals it’s time to plant daffodil bulbs. “A daffo

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