There are different minis, they're classified by the size of their blooms but some are also small plants, and I think these are the ones which tend to fade away unless you keep an eye on them. Looking at their flowering heights can help.

All three which you selected will have no problems, Sir Winston Churchill is very vigorous and just blooms and blooms and is fragrant and.... :)

Thank you so much. That makes sense about the height I hadn't thought of that. I'm so happy to hear they should be good to go. Sir Winston Churchill is so pretty in photos I was sure I'd just bought a very expensive annual. Thanks for your feedback!

I love miniature daffodils, and over the years have planted many varieties.

Tete-a-tete is probably the world's most planted daffodil. And for good reasons. It's an all-yellow trumpet in miniature, 5 or 6 inches high, very early bloom, and because of its low height will not often break in stormy weather. Usually with two blooms per stem, as if they were talking to each other, hence the name. It is very reliable and keeps coming up year after year, and spreads well. Baby moon and minnow minatures do bloom late, well after tete-a-tete.

Elka is an early blooming white, about the same size as tete-a-tete, as is the new snow baby from Brent and Becky's — an excellent source for miniature narcissus and other bulbs.

narcissi are commonly placed into divisions...and most of the miniatures are found in divisions 6, 7 and 8 - or cyclaminus, jonquillas and tazettas |(Tete a Tete is usually assigned to division 13, miscellaneous). The cyclaminus tend to be earlier and hardier than the jonquils and tazettas which, like div.5 (triandrus) tend to hail from a mediteranean climate. Baby Moon is the only slightly dubious one for your zone (it does very well in pot culture though).

Hi Camp, Why is baby moon unreliable for my zone? I am not quite following you sorry. Do you mean used in pots as an annual? Can you elaborate on what you mean? I can't imagine them surviving in pots for me overwinter without some serious effort.

Baby Moon is quite a late bloomer, it can have a tendency to rot during a cold wet winter and spring - although a reliable snow cover is a great help. Whilst it ought to be hardy enough for zone 5, it is one of the tenderest narcissi (along with Tazettas) and it certainly is nothing like as robust as most of the miniatures (at least for me), so I tend to keep it in a pot, along with some of the species tulips (batalini, for example. A huge advantage is the ability to place it at a reasonable level for sniffing (as it has a delightful fragrance and I can stash the pots under the greenhouse bench all summer as they like to be dry when dormant and damp when in full growth) If you are growing it in the ground, hedge your bets by putting a bit of grit underneath the little bulbs and mark its position (as it is easily overlooked by early May, when it shyly emerges (the jonquils tend to not be too quick to poke out of the ground, unlike, say, Jack Snipe or Jenny.