Before I came here someone planted a tazetta daffodil commonly seen in this neighborhood and other old neighborhoods around Austin. I have not yet identified it with any certainty, but I believe that it is 'Grand Primo'. The only difference I've observed from my flowers and Grand Primo as described by Scott Ogden, is that my flowers bloom in January. He says 'Grand Primo' blooms in February or March. At any rate, my mystery flowers bloom later than my paperwhites, so perhaps the dates are relative to site.

In further contrast to paperwhites, the leaves of 'Grand Primo' are deep green, rather than light gray-green, much wider and much taller. They usually grow straight up to about 2 feet, and then flop before the flower scapes appear. This year, perhaps due to heavy fall rains, the leaves have not flopped as much, and tower over the flowers.

Generally the flower scapes are about 20 inches tall; it is the tallest of all the daffodils I grow. This year one scape was over 30 inches tall! Each scape typically has on average 10 flowers. Sometimes, especially if there's been a freeze, the flowers blast (get trapped inside the bud) and I must free them by hand.

The flowers are creamy white with a yellow center that fades to white over time. They have a strong scent, but it is not the overpoweringly musky scent of paperwhites.

The leaves take a long time to die down and disappear. Sometimes it's May before I can clean them up. For this reason, and because of their height, I tend to put them in the back of the borders so that after they bloom, they are hidden by spring flowers.