The winners of our schools daffodil giveaway

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We’re delighted to announce the winning schools in our ‘Little Daffodils’ Giveaway.

25 schools were chosen at random from many hundreds of nominations from schools in the vicinity of our eight garden centres.

They will each receive a 20kg sack of mixed daffodils as well as bulb fibre for planting.

The winning schools

Ottery: Exeter Road Community Primary, Exmouth; Seaton Primary School; Newton Poppleford Primary; Honiton Primary School

Plymouth: Plymstock School; Mayflower Community Academy; Brixham C of E School

Lymington: Milford On Sea Primary School; Pennington C of E Primary School; Kids Love Nature Kindergarten at Lymington

Wincanton: King Arthurs School; Stalbridge Primary School; Stanchester Academy

Whitchurch: Clutton Primary School; Bridge Learning Campus; Hareclive E-ACT Academy

Taunton: Trull Primary School; Silver Bridge School; Minerva Primary School

Torquay: Canada Hill Primary School Ogwell; Glendinning Academy, Newton Abbot; Preston Primary School

Jack’s Patch: Hazeldown Primary School; Abbotskerswell Primary School; Bishopsteignton Primary School

NB A representative from each school will need to collect their daffodil packs by Sunday October 18th.

Congratulations to the winning schools. If your school missed out this time, please keep an eye on our socials for the next schools giveaway!

Why daffodils?

Daffodils are one of the early flowers to pop up, heralding the start of Spring and warmer days ahead. Their bright colour always cheers everyone up – including school children and teachers!

Once planted they come up year after year, and they often self-propagate, so you’ll have even more flowers over the years.

They need very little maintenance. You can deadhead them, but you should leave the green foliage for six to eight weeks before cutting back, to allow the plant to take in sunlight for the bulb, so it will flower again even better next year.

As well as making the school area look nice and encouraging wildlife, the daffodils can be used for lots of school projects. If the school has a gardening club, they could plant the bulbs as part of their extracurricular activity.

The daffodils can also potentially be used for:

  • Art: with any year group able to paint pictures of the daffodils
  • Science: where students can learn about the different parts of a flower
  • Literacy: writing poems about the flowers, with reference to Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’
  • Economics: school councils or business enterprise groups could pick the daffodils to sell to parents as cut flowers, also raising money for their schools.

A guide to planting daffodil bulbs

The ideal time to plant the bulbs is during September and October.

  • Choose a spot that is usually sunny or lightly shaded.
  • Plant them in the ground with the pointed end of the bulb facing upwards.
  • The depth of planting should be around three times the bulb’s height, and they generally need to be spaced at about twice their width.
  • The bulbs will do best in well-draining soil, or you can use the bulb fibre compost either in the ground, raised beds or containers.
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