How to Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year
August 30, 2011 
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Daffodil Bulbs
How To Ensure Early Bulbs Bloom, Year After Year
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I often notice when visiting gardens the great quantities of Daffodils and other early bulbs that we plant to herald in the spring. But how do we ensure we have a great display each year?
The early flowering bulbs
Quite a few seasoned gardeners have had their first horticultural “experience” by the planting of a few Daffodil or Tulip bulbs, thus spurring them onto more adventurous plantings. At the end of April the very early flowering bulbs will come to the end of their blooming season. This group of early bloomers includes Daffodils, Hyacinths, Bluebells, Crocus, Snowdrops and early Tulips. All these bulbs will flower well for any gardener the first growing season but for them to bloom well the following seasons we must give them some care.
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Dieback not tieback
All bulbs leaves must be allowed a minimum of six weeks after flowering to die down, so if these bulbs are planted in a lawn that area of lawn must remain uncut for six weeks. Refrain from tying your Daffodil leaves in knots to neaten their appearance, also avoid folding them over and securing with rubber bands. If the bulbs leaves are naturally allowed to die back then they will take in the energy for next years flowering. I would also recommend nipping off the spent flower heads on bulbs once flowering is finished, this will prevent the bulb using vital energy for seed production instead using all that energy to bulk up its food store for next season.
Don’t forget to feed
The final tip for blooming bulbs next spring is to feed your bulbs, this is especially important if you have a hungry soil. Apply a foliar feed to the fully emerged leaves before the blooms start to form. Choose a general purpose purpose liquid feed.I would also advise you to feed your bulbs just as the blooms have faded with a granular bulb fertiliser applied around the bulbs base. This is the most important feed they will receive. Ensure this feed has a higher potassium or potash content than nitrogen content. Apply according to the manufacturers instructions and heed safety warnings.
James Kilkelly runs a professional garden design service in Galway, Ireland. He has a regular gardening column in a Irish regional newspaper. Visit his website at http://www.gardenplansireland.com/ He also regularly posts his expert advice on
http://www.gardenstew.com/
Original article: http://www.gardenplansireland.com/articles/article13.html
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daffodil bulbs question by Grammy Flame: Will tulip & daffodil bulbs bloom next year if planted this spring?
Got behind in my fall bulb planting & have about 100 more tulip & daffodil bulbs that didn’t get planted. I know they won’t bloom this year if I plant them now but will they survive & bloom next spring if I plant them now?
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Daffodils: Different Kinds
Daffodils come in several colors and shapes, Doug Green at www.flower-garden-bulbs.com shows you the different kinds of daffodil flower bulbs that are mostly produced in Amsterdam, Holland. These yellow daffodils may surprise you, because they’re not only yellow they come in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Growing daffodils is simple gardening, they are one of the easiest and hardiest of garden bulbs and a special quality is there deer–deterrent value. Daffodil bulbs are quite poisonous and no animal will willingly eat them. Neither squirrels nor dear will bother these plants in flower. Planting daffodils is the same as for any other bulb, the rule of thumb is to plant the bulb so the top is twice the distance down as the bulb is tall. In other words, if the daffodil is 1 inch tall than the top of the daffodil should be planted so that it is two inches below soil level. The majority of bulbs for North American gardens are produced in Holland. In the major flower auctions centered around Amsterdam provide all the daffodils and tulips bulbs for much of North America. The Narcissus is the family name for daffodils used by botanists. Some of these small species Narcissus are wonderful for the home garden. Planted in areas under shrubs or trees they spring into bloom first thing to provide a welcome relief from winters cold weather. Generally, they get enough sunshine to renew their flower buds for next year before the trees and shrubs leaf out to stop the sunshine …
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