That's funny @Pete.8 because the crocus locally have never had such a poor year and we only got a handful of the hundreds in our lawn flower, only to be demolished by all the rain we have had.
Sparrows never touch our primulas either. I have lots of native prims, but I also have some brighter yellow polyanthus - never touched. No blind daffs here that I've seen. Only a few of the common ones, or the little dwarf ones, flowering just now as it's still too early. All the ones coming up have good buds on them though. Loads of crocus around but that's pretty normal.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Quite. Few of my daffs have come up blind as well this year so reassured it’s not just me. Some of our snowdrops went over very quickly this year as well and we’ve also seem more heads eaten 🙄
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The small grey slugs have also been at some of my daffs - the flower bud nibbled whilst still below the soil so not much of the actual flower left when it emerges.
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No blind daffs here that I've seen. Only a few of the common ones, or the little dwarf ones, flowering just now as it's still too early. All the ones coming up have good buds on them though.
Loads of crocus around but that's pretty normal.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham