The nursery can do its utmost to package the bulbs well, but maladies like delayed shipping or postal snafus can cause the daffodils-to-be to suffer. These conditions often result in the spread of basal rot. Unfortunately, basal rot can survive in the soil for years.
Without these things, your bulbs can experience issues that prevent them from growing or blooming. Sunshine is also important for blooming. Make no mistake: you can definitely plant your daffodils under trees — as long as the trees are deciduous.
Most of the time, daffodils will bloom before the trees get all their leaves, allowing the plants to get adequate sunshine.
And if you accidentally do one of these things or something similar, carefully transplant them to a sunnier, friendlier area. Cutting this foliage before it begins to turn yellow and die back on its own prevents that crucial work from happening, resulting in a no-show the next year. So keep watering your daffodil foliage regularly even after the final blossom fades. When it begins to turn yellow, you can stop watering and cut the leaves back or mow them if you desire.
Bulbs from a nursery contain all the energy and nutrients needed to produce flowers in its first year. But applying a fertilizer with more phosphorus than nitrogen can help the plant develop strong flowers. When the flower buds begin to form, top dress again but with bone meal this time. I love this one from Dr. Earth Bone Meal. Nitrogen is a necessary plant nutrient, but it promotes leafy growth. Lots and lots of leaves may be produced as a result of overfertilizing… and not very many flowers.
Have you ever had issues with daffodils not blooming? And for more information about growing daffodils in your garden, check out these articles next:. I had the most beautiful, biggest, most fragrant hyacinths during those years. In response to posts about goats: this herd is 40 years old and for as many years, the manure has been being applied every few years to daffodils and tulips and they bloom beautifully. Goats are well worth the time and effort for far more than their manure: milk is made into cheese and soap; whey is worth its weight in gold for nutrition and feeding acidic-loving plants; goats are watchdogs as well as companions and if I had to choose one animal to be with me in the wilderness, it would be a goat!
Hello there! Your blog is so very imformatioand helpful as well as beautiful! Thank you for sharing your insight! There seems to be tons of green but no blooms. I am thinking they need to be dug up and divided…when is a good time for this? Any other things I could try? Thank you! I was always at war with my daffodils. Sometimes they did not bloom at all. They looked like scalliions……….
We bought this house a little over a year ago.. Most of them were on the smaller side Robin egg or smaller. Do you think there is a remedy or should I just dig them up and replace them with new bulbs?
Hi Carol — If your narcissus daffodil bulbs receive the cultural conditions described above, they should bloom for you the very next spring. They need abundant food and sun while the foliage is growing in order to produce embryo flowers. Andreas — I wonder if your daffodils are the Dutch-types that require at least 12 weeks of cold in order to bloom. Lucky you. Tropical narcissi should do very well in your region. Hi Kevin! Thank you — for your copious amounts of information condensed into bite-size, intelligent but understandable, pieces , your flair, your humility, and your unfailing sense of humor!
And of course, while I was dealing with crisis after crisis, my stash of beautiful bulbs languished, unplanted not even out of their mailing boxes! Or should I try to put at least some or all? Help, please! And thanks again! Bettyann — Happy birthday to you! This way, you can sip a cocktail while your friends do all the work. I suspect that most of your bulbs will have sprouted in their boxes. But if you get them in the ground now, they might surprise you with flowers in only a few weeks time.
A fine birthday present, yes? My daffodils were planted by four little children twenty five years ago. Trenches were dug and bulbs were tossed in randomly. It was an unplanned Thanksgiving acativity to keep the kids outside. I now have hundreds of shinny yellow faces all over my one acer yard.
They have bloomed every year and have never divided even though some may have been spread when accidentally pulled up during weeding and been tossed with the weeds. Some have been moved when plants dug up for Spring display indoors and were replanted. Some have just taken it upon themselves to mosy into the woods. Joggers stop and admire them and question how they got into the wood by the side of the yard and the woods across the street. Since I really have no answer, they must find and ask the true caretakers of my gardens, the Flower Fairies.
Good luck, they are a secretive group. I have learned to sit back and enjoy what grows on year old soil which has never seen modern fertilizer, is rained on when ever. Jude — The flower fairies are indeed a secretive group. But they are also a generous clan. DO winter temps have to get below freezing for bulbs to bloom the following year? Hi Carol — In my experience which includes forcing the bulbs , Dutch Narcissi require 12 weeks of belowdegree temperatures in order to bloom well. So yes — if your winters are on the warm side — Dutch bulbs may not flower for you.
Yet our narcissi have bloomed well year after year…many of the varieties must be at least 30 years old, as they predate our living here. The deers ate the first 10 inches of my tulips. We had a beautiful show lat year. Do they have any chance of survival? Anything I could do now to save them? KEVIN, I have a doozey for you, I planted my daffodils about 4 years ago, and they bloomed magnificently for two years in a row.
A few stayed the normal size and my narcissus are normal size, but not producing more than 2 or 3 blooms. My hyacinth and tulips are doing great and they are all in the same place. Any suggestions?
I asked you this question before and never got back to see the answer. Since it is too late now, I will certainly dig my bulbs and replant them this fall. I planted daffodils bulbs last August and they all sprouted, but seems not growing. The leaves are bearly a finger length above ground while the daffodils on my friends house and all around here in Stavanger, Norway already bloomed.
Some of the leaves show some yellow colour. Does this pointing to anything, like I should water it or not water it or add fertilizer, anything like that. My daffodils are just lovely this year. But have not always been like that.
I just wish they would bloom right at Easter but they always seem to bloom afterwards. I just patiently give them a lil lovin tender care and the results are phenomenal! My garden conversation piece. Hi Kevin, Omigosh…. I really goofed up! Today I trimmed all the green foliage off my daffodils, and somehow came to this webpage and realized——oh no!!! Is there some way I can remedy the situation with adequate phosphorous to help these poor hacked-off plants bloom next year?
I feel terrible about this… p. I love your website! This is our first year on our property in the spring. There is greenery Across 2 acres but not a single one bloomed. Old property All down our street neighbors have beautiful flowerings. Any clue which fix it to try first in this situation?
They are on the north side of the house, within a few feet of the house. We are located in the SW US, but at high altitude, so we get enough cold weather, and, in general, a lot of sun. I will try fertilizer, but do you think they get too much shade? It is quite hot and dry on the south side of the house, although some grape vines there do well. We have already fertilized the grass and have been researching Part sun flowers for the front. Hi Kevin, The one thing that irritates me about spring bulbs is when I want to change perennials in the gardens I almost alway dig up bulbs.
Is this a problem for you? Just received your much anticipated blog, and suspect you are finished reading, but will try anyway. Your answer to Lisa above makes me wonder if moisture is the culprit for my disappearing tulips.
One year I even made little wire cages to plant the bulbs in, suspecting they were being eaten over winter by moles or voles. Still no luck with the tulips. The daffodils do well, but the hyacinths wane and tulips are a no-show every year.
I always thought that was a sweet way to remember the task and her, of course. Love your blog, as usual, and always learn something, Kevin.
The first of my daffodils just flowered this week. They are my favorites, the tiny Tete-A-Tete variety. This year the blossoms are fewer so I will try adding fertilizer as you suggest. Thanks for all the growing tips! Mine are beautiful. We have many varieties on our old home place.
When my father purchased this home and acreage, there was a man who raised flowers living in a little frame house behind ours. It was in the deed that he could live here rent free until he died. He had no utilities and got water every day from the outside faucet.
He had an old potbellied stove that he used for heat and to cook on, but he raised daffodils, iris, day lilies and peonies. There is also every kind of flowering shrub in the yard. When he passed, my parents tried to keep up with the flowers, but it became to much. Now that I am back in this house, I am trying to tame some of the flowers and shrubs, but they are just all over in the field and the back of the property, plus the ones that I have transplanted.
Hi Kevin, I finally divided my daffodils last summer so am hoping there will be a spectacular display this year…. Want to share a tip with you and your readers that I learned when I was a young gardener from the Japanese gardener who tended the gardens at a house in which I was employed.
Thought the gardens were so neat and tidy with their little knots of leaves. He would take the clump and then tie them in their own leaves. Looks great and when they become dried, you can just pop off the entire little bundle. Thanks for all your great tips; just love your blog! Kevin I adore you and your common sense gardening. I must deal with heavy clay soil in central Illinois and my daffs do very well but I cannot get tulips to come up the second year. It might be the squirles sp??.
The price of the bulbs is a little high for annuals. Might give it a try. What do you think about cages? Also, I have a couple of hostas that have grown out of the ground??? The roots are on top of the soil. I guess they need to be dug and planted deeper but the sprouts are coming thru this root mess. I guess you would need to see it. Thanks Kevin! I was wondering why only 1 flowered this year and they are my favorite Spring flower!
I will make sure to water them better and do the high-phosphorous formula. My Hyathis were very crowed this year and yesterday just separated them out. I started with 8 blubs last year and this year have over 30! I going to have an abundance next year! I was wondering why my daffodils have no flowers and you answered my question. Thank you, Alicia. Love your blog. I have yet to accurately identify it, but the larva of the fly chews into the center of the bulb and eats from within.
It is apparently fairly common here in the Pacific Northwest, unfortunately. I speak from experience. If I find a clump with leaves and no flowers, I will usually dig even while in full growth to determine if it has been invaded.
Even with all this, I have over hyacinth, over daffodils and thousands of smaller bulbs that bloom each spring. Because of ground rodents and squirrels, the only way I can enjoy tulips and crocus other than the tommasinas is in pots.
Happy Spring! Love your blog and all of your helpful tips and recipes. As far as spring-flowering bulbs go, all hail the glorious daffodil!! I shake my fist at the deer, which mow down just about anything, but in the spring the joke is on them. I have many varieties I put in several years ago from a grab-bag type of deal, everything from tiny 2 cm flowers to pink cups to doubles and more.
He or she must have somehow known how awful our mid-Atlantic winter would be. Some of my daffodils get a flower head but never bloom out. What could be the problem. Last year the daffodil leaves never faded instead they just kind of overlapped all over the area. This year we had a frigid winter and now lots of rain. There are only five blossoms and lots of leaves. What would you suggest? Wonderful site,thank you. This year none of my hydragaes bloomed we did get a few frost days in early spring…..
With careful attention to feeding and watering, tomatoes, lettuces, and herbs will gladly grow in pots. I have had the same problem with Lily of the Valley, until this spring. Obviously, soil needed an addition, what should I be adding. Thanks for all the great tips. I love daffodils. My late Mother had over a thousand bulbs planted down the hill behind the house. It made a glorious display in the spring. I love your blog! If I have a bunch of bulbs that I got on clearance in December past planting time here in NH and I never got around to plantin them in a pot in my basement…what can I do with them?
I have some that I am trying to force to bloom indoors in a base of water and glass marbles, but only one is showing new roots. I hate to admit it but I do everything wrong and still they bloom their heads off! They are planted in full sun which reaches over deg every summer. They are hit dead-on by the sprinklers three times a week. This winter there was no water at all with minus-0 temps. Still they bloom-away. Benign neglect is my motto! Kevin I have some daffodils at home they still feel hard should I store them in the refrigerator until the fall to plant in the ground.
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