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By CATHY SPAULDING/Phoenix Staff Writer Go beyond their “candlestick telephone” shape, and you might see that not all daffodils look alike.  “Some are four inches tall with tiny blooms. Some are 20 inches tall,” said Martha Stoodley of the Muskogee Garden Club. “The blooms come in white, yellow, orange, even pink.” Visitors can see such variety when at the annual Daffodil Day and Tea, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Thomas-Foreman Historic Home, 1419 W. Okmulgee Ave. More than 3,000 daffodils surround the home, built in 1898 for Indian Territory judge John R. Thomas.  “We have at least 15 varieties,” Stoodley said. “Two thousand bulbs were planted by the Garden Club three years ago. Last year, we added another 1,000, and in the winter we planted 600.” Daffodil Day began several years ago, when the Garden Club discovered Oklahoma was the only state in the region without a daffodil festival, Stoodley said. For $5, visitors to Saturday’s celebration can ...

Daffodil Day, March, 29 10 to 3 Thomas Foreman Historic Home  1419   W Okmulgee Sponsored by Muskogee Garden Club and Three Rivers Museum   Sue Tolbert 918-686-6624 3riversmuseum@sbcglobal.net Muskogee Garden Club Oyana Wilson  918-683-5380  email  oyanaw@gmail.com There are 27,000 unique daffodil cultivars with flower colors from white to yellow and orange. Daffodils can be cultivated and cross-bred hundreds of ways to form delicate hybrids. Also, they can live on abandoned homesteads for a hundred years without any human intervention.  The names Jonquil, Narcissus and Daffodil are used for all the flowers in the Narcissus family since Narcissus is the name of the plant genus of which they are all members. Daffodil is used as a common name for all of them. The exception is Narcissus jonquilla, what we call Jonquils, are unique from the others because they have narrow leaves, and each stem has 3 fragrant flowers with...