Daffodil Dell

Garden Rooms at Havenwood, April 2024

Narcissus poeticus in the Daffodil Dell this month at Havenwood.

A daffodil garden with four-season interest

April is the perfect month to tell you about the Daffodil Dell—a sunken garden area here at Havenwood. April is its peak, for daffodils, that is. But there is much more here than just daffodils in May, and I am working on adding quite a bit more for July. So come take a look at where we started, and where we are now with our building of this edge of woodland space.

Where is it?

The Daffodil Dell is the garden closest to the entrance of our driveway, and was planned as a part of the garden since our very first winter a decade ago. It was slowly created over the past ten years as we smothered the grass, added more varieties of Narcissus, then shrubs and trees around the perimeter, as well as a garden gate.

Before photos of the area that would become the Daffodil Dell. On the left you can see that it was just lawn, and on the right where we began making the first bed in 2014

The dry stack stone wall

This is the area at Havenwood in which we inherited some large naturalized patches of native flowers because they found harbor from the mower here near the stone wall…

A newer section of the stone wall added to the old bit to extend it to the new driveway.