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Blind daffodils
The sun is shining and the daffodils are out. Nothing spells the start of spring like a mass of golden, trumpet-shaped narcissi.
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happymarion
20/02/2013 at 16:32
You would not think from seeing the wonderful display our hellebores are putting on in the Bristol Botanic Garden that they once had the dreaded blight. We volunteers spent hours cutting away every leaf and flower that had even a tiny spot on them and it worked. None died. i have some blind daffodils in the long grass but i think that may be because they are congested so i will dig them up and replant them in the green.
hollie hock
21/02/2013 at 21:39

I had loads of blind daffs last year, I put it down to the weather the year before. I left them in  situ and fingers crossed this will be a better year for them

oldchippy
22/02/2013 at 12:33
The ground where my daffs grow has been to hard to dig over the last few year's as it's been so dry,maybe this year I may be able to lift and dived them. Oldchippy.
Sam13
19/04/2013 at 10:57

I am new to gardening as I only moved into a property with a garden last year. We had an abundance of daffs last year - but this year it's just the leaves which are in abundance again - but no flowers. Which i'm told is blind daffs.  I've looked everywhere online and no-one seem to tell me what to do with them. Do I leave them all summer until they die off and then cutt them down, or should I dig the bulbs up when the leaves have died and buy new bulbs ready for next year?  

figrat
19/04/2013 at 11:20
Did you cut the leaves off last year, or did you let them wither away naturally?
Maud is in the garden
19/04/2013 at 11:28

Couldnt work out what the wonderful smell was in my front garden. Hyacinths. Doh. They are looking really beautiful this year.

Let the daffs die down naturally, this lets the goodness go back into the bulbs. Remove leaves when they have died off. Are the bulbs planted deep enough?

 

 

figrat
19/04/2013 at 11:39
Mmmm love the smell of hyacinths. Bloke's recently built me a new log store, with a flat roof. I've got a trough of hyacinths on there at the moment, they're just at nose height as you walk past.
ginagibbs
19/04/2013 at 12:38

Mmm Hyacinths! lovely. bought some in Morrisons for £1 and kept them around the house this spring, house smells fab and will plant them out when they die down

Jon 13
30/04/2013 at 22:46

Hi Sam13 try this link for looking after your daffodils. Good luck 

http://www.blomsbulbs.com/growing/autumn/daffodils_faq

Woodgreen wonderboy
30/04/2013 at 22:51

I have a better display of Daffs this year which may be down to last year's wet, wet, wet. So it's probably a good idea to let them have some water if the summer is dry. It probably helps flower bud formation in late summer.

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