Planted bulbs four years ago. Lovely healthy leaves but only few flower. Can anyone tell me why please?
After a beautiful display the first year my daffodil bulbs are now blind?
Did you let them die down naturally last year, rather than cutting the leaves off?
Reply:not enough sun dig up and plant in a more sunny location
Reply:Blind? They can't see? I'm so sorry, but I understand. My flowers can't see either. If only they had more self control, this never would have happened.
Reply:Try moving them to somewhere more sunnier.
Reply:get new ones,when they die down,don't cut them back
Reply:Many bulbs for the commercial market are 'forced' so that they have a good store of energy to get them started.
However, as far as I understand, failure to flower can be due to too much nitrogen, creating lush growth at the expense of flowers.
Try not feeding your daffs with anything apart from high quality organic mulch and they should produce better.
Reply:Probably you need some fertilizer. Bone meal is a classic. Just space a few sprinkles in on the sides.
Bulbs should be pulled up every few years in the fall, divided, fertilized and then replanted.
Reply:Bulbs Do Not Flower Because Of Shallow Planting
If daffodil bulbs are not planted deeply enough, they produce short, unattractive leaves and stems. Underground they split up prematurely and produce small, non-flowering bulbs. Plant bulbs 6 to 9 inches deep. Mulch their beds over the winter with 1 to 2 inches of organic material to protect bulbs from heaving to the surface when the soil is disturbed by temperature fluctuations over the winter.
above copied and pasted from a website, this has hapened to me before and I took advice from a keen gardener who told me the same. Annoying when you wait all year for the first signs of spring then you get no flowers. Good luck for next year :)
Reply:They naturally lose there 'luster' over the years. Thus, it's necessary to replant new ones.
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