Dancing with the Daffodils
Our daffodil enterprise is one of the most vibrant on the farm. We have scaled up from a modest beginning in the 1980s to now, cropping almost three million bunches every year across 250 acres in Moulton. We grow for both the cut flower market and the dry bulb market. Our flowers and bulbs are sold throughout the United Kingdom and exported abroad, with cut flowers sometimes travelling all the way to the USA.

The Tamsyn Legacy: Our Exclusive Variety
We are particularly proud of our exclusive daffodil, Tamsyn. This variety is unique to Jack Buck Farms because we bought the entire global stock of just ten kilos back in the 1980s.
Tamsyn is prized for being very early – often ready in January – and is known for its good length and excellent vase life. From that original ten kilos, Tamsyn now forms the majority of our three million bunches.

Hand-Cropping & The Future Challenge
After the Christmas holidays, our Tamsyn variety begins to show signs of being ready to crop (always dependent on the weather). The flowers are cropped entirely by hand. For the intense ten-week season, up to 200 pickers descend on the farm. This highly skilled work is done on a piecework basis, bundling flowers into 10s, 16s, or 20s depending on customer specification.

The Bulb Lifecycle: Quality Starts Underground
Once the daffodil flower season has finished, the plants are left in the ground to wilt and die off naturally, allowing all the essential goodness to return to the bulb. Commercially grown daffodil bulbs are typically left in the ground for two or three years to grow and multiply. During this time, one original bulb can split to become six or more.

We lift and dry the daffodil bulbs in June and July, with grading continuing into August. Some bulbs are sold, and others are replanted after a necessary hot water treatment for pest and disease control. We take meticulous care of our bulb stock health to ensure they produce the fantastic quality of yellow flowers and healthy bulbs our customers expect.