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daffodil bulbs

Hi anyone! I've just found a tray of bulbs under a pile of pots, they have 1"shoots shall I plant them now and hope they grow or keep them in the dark until Autumn.image

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  • Plant them now or they'll just shrivel and die.  Even if they don't flower this year, they should still grow leaves and build-up the bulb so they can flower next year.  image

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Thanks Bob imageI know what I will be doing tomorrow. Hopefully it won't rain.

  • At least if it rains it'll be just what the daffs need.  Hope you've got a substantial mackintosh image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I'm pleased to report that I have no bags of shooting bulbs hanging in the shed this yearimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Peanuts3Peanuts3 Posts: 759

    I did have some tete a tete's, that I bought in the autumn and only planted 10 days ago.  They've got two chances imageimage

  • seilseil Posts: 16

    I find bulbs all the time and don't remember where they came from.  Sometimes I don't know what they are either.  I just plant them as soon as the ground is workable and wait and see what comes up.  It's sort of like a fun grab bag surprise!

  • I planted a handful of daff bulbs a week or so ago - found,forgotten at the back of the shed. As the saying goes - they've got two chances.........!

    Incidentally, did everybody see the mention in GM of the new daffodil, Pentillie Duke, discovered in my birthplace? I'm down there in three weeks time; will try to scrounge,????,couple of bulbs from Ted Coryton, (the owner) - the flower certainly looks very nice.

  • Zoomer44Zoomer44 Posts: 3,267

    Better than me Nut, I've a bag of shooting garlic. Kept, meaning to plant out the cloves but the ground was either too wet or frozen. Think I've missed the frost now. There's also a pot full of tiny bulbs in the GH and for the life of me I don't know what they are...! 

  • Well all bulbs planted??? image they looked better in the ground than in the shed!!! It is meant to rain tonight so I didn't bother to water( spring plays havoc with the back image need to get back into shape )

  • Pentillie - yes I saw the feature on Pentillie Duke and am so excited - when I was a child on the farm we had a patch of Narcissus pseudonarcissus on the edge of the spinney next to the veg garden, and amonst them was a clump very similar to the Pentillie Duke - the farm was sold 30+ years ago and I've been trying to find a daffodil like it for ages  -  there's even a thread on here somewhere! image 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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