Daffodil Spring Check

[Derrick Hughes]

Would be interested to see a picture of your daffodils to see the difference around the Country .
Lampeter 764 ft

 

[spin cycle]

just coming out here.....looking at the crops around here rape/wheat/barley they're pretty normal....grass bit slow but coming

 

[primmiemoo]

A lot of mine are just leaves. Are there any daffologists lurking who'd be kind enough to explain why that's happened, pls?
My theory is that the flower buds have been shocked by the wet, followed by cold, followed by so much wet, but probably wrong.

The ones that are furthest on are the large trumpet varieties - in particular the all yellow sorts - and the brassy 1980s narcissus my late Mum planted. Anything fancier is now late, and, so far, the miniatures are very late. Think my Minnows are gone

The Lent Lilies are unaffected, and there are some new plants growing in a hedge where none were planted.

Above 600' contour.

 

[Lili]

Are the ones with no flowers quite old? Have found here that after a while clumps get very crowded and bulbs don't make enough food for flowering. I think the remedy is to lift them, split replant and dress with bone meal and they should flower again in a couple of years. Or just plant some new ones!!.

 

[davieh3350]

Glen fincastle 950-1000 feet a few bits of yellow beginning to show (note the random spread of the daffs at the end... Pigs don't seem to like the bulbs)

 

[primmiemoo]

Are the ones with no flowers quite old? Have found here that after a while clumps get very crowded and bulbs don't make enough food for flowering. I think the remedy is to lift them, split replant and dress with bone meal and they should flower again in a couple of years.

They're a mixture, Lili. Some are ones I planted within the last 2 years, some might be 60 years old.

I think I might know what's happened to the very oldest - thought struck just this minute. There's small leaved elm suckered through their walled hedge. I didn't get round to cutting it back hard late last autumn, so could it be stealing their room and food?
It'll be much fun lifting them }gibber!{ because everything is rammed in tight by elm.

Maybe spot feeding with a good liquid fert will help? It would be sad to lose them. I've never seen any like them anywhere else.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

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[ThatsSomeSheep]

Ours might just about flower tomorrow.

(650ft, Borders)

TSS

 

[Renaultman]

Been on a farm today where the blackthorn hedge was in full flower.

 

[Lili]

They're a mixture, Lili. Some are ones I planted within the last 2 years, some might be 60 years old.

I think I might know what's happened to the very oldest - thought struck just this minute. There's small leaved elm suckered through their walled hedge. I didn't get round to cutting it back hard late last autumn, so could it be stealing their room and food?
It'll be much fun lifting them }gibber!{ because everything is rammed in tight by elm.

Maybe spot feeding with a good liquid fert will help? It would be sad to lose them. I've never seen any like them anywhere else.

Good Luck with lifting. Over the years bulbs that have been put in at about 6 inches deep seem to mysteriously bury themselves about a foot down - or it seems like it! Try a good feed and hope for a show next year. I know what you mean by preserving special ones. I have some here that came originally from a derelict garden where the house was last occupied in 1925.

 

[7610 super q]

Been out since Christmas here. And they've had a fooking hiding with the weather since Christmas too. Some look OK. some distinctly miserable.

 

[Tarw Coch]

North Shropshire, altitude 280 feet, first ones just starting to come out on a south facing wall.

@Kevtherev a bit of your dads mates handy work.

 

[upnortheast]

Generally like this 450 ft asl

Then this one is always ahead