No Show Of Daffodils

[kenny1234]

In september 2011, I planted about 20 small daffs. into a large container. In march 2012 I had a good show of flowers. I left them in the container and about November last year saw them surfacing again (just the leaves of course). I was expecting yet another show last month but all I had were leaves!!! What may have happened?

[askyourgran]

Try diggin them up and replanting them kenny. I've got that problem this year, must have been all the snow I've got one large daff in flower and three dwarf ones still in bud in the back garden, last year there were dozens. In the front garden I have one large daff flowering and I don't know where that came from.

[Prudie]

I think daffs these days have built in obsolescence and come up blind so you buy more. My garden was full of them when I moved here, now they all come up just leaves.

[woofgang]

five things....Daffs need to be buried deeply to flower and naturally work their way up out of the soil. Mulch every year to keep them covered. Once they have flowered, dead head them and feed them as you would any other flowering plant. Leave the leaves alone, let them die down naturally. They also need a period of natural dormancy which the last winter may not have allowed them. Eventually the bulbs will fail to produce but will produce new bulbs which will, for a few years produce only leaves.

[MyBlackHen]

Did you leave the leaves on after flowering, (to feed the bulbs) or did you cut them off?

[MyBlackHen]

Prudie, occasionally you need to dig up the clumps, and discard the middles.
Same with many perennials.

[boxtops]

My tete a tetes are in the same pot year on year, they were lovely again this year - still are.

[MyBlackHen]

Same here, my garden is full of them, love the little tete a tetes.

[Prudie]

Actually the tete-a-tetes do flower every year. I always leave the leaves to die down, maybe I should sort them out, they've been in about 10 years.

[kenny1234]

I didn't touch the leaves after flowering--have always been told to let the goodness drain back into the bulb.---Would it worth leaving them and see what happens this next Winter??

[kenny1234]

Just gone to the section of my garden where I put the daffs away till next winter (in their pot)---and they've just started to flower!!! Talk about being late!!