How do daffodils propogate?

[barmy]

I am curious how daffodils propogate especially in the wild where vast "clouds" are formed in woodlands. Can anything similar be done at home or do we just have to buy lots more bulbs?

[Clanad]

Daffodils and other "jonquills" only propagate by division or moving of the bulbs. If the "vast clouds" you observe have been there many years, it's probable that they simply expand the coverage by natural divison of the bulbs. However, in my own yard, here in the western U.S., I've noticed, on several occasions, that our resident and itnerant squirrels really like to dig up the bulbs, eating a few, but transporting the others near and far and re-burying them. I suspect that the old maxim about squirrels remembering where they buried nuts, bulbs, etc., is an Old Wives Tale and the bulbs simply begin ane populating their new home...

[woofgang]

http://gardenofeaden....pagate-daffodils.html

bulb division
or
http://www.flower-gar...om/daffodil-seed.html
seed

[modeller]

I tried collecting and sowing the seed in trays but it took 4/5 years before they produced blooms.

[SeaJayPea]

Woofgang. Are you sure about that second link? Took me to an article about i-phone 6 for £1