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Daffodils in June?
Sunflower Lady
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Does anyone know whether I would get Daffs flowering in June if I planted them later?
We are renewing ours wedding vows on 26/6 next year and I would love daffs as my flowers but they obviously won't be in season........as they are one of my favourite flowers and the ceremony will be in Grasmere I though it would be very apt.
Any advice please 
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hi ol, no idea if you could get the daffs flowering, in theory i don't see why not if you planted them at the 'wrong ' time, but as you well know I haven't really a clue! would you consider yellow day lilies? how lovely to renew your vows, I'd like to do that ( hubbby looks askance at idea but to be fair we have only been married 5 years!) anywhere nice?
I've no idea, but I imagine it would be difficult. My daughter wanted pink and dark red tulips at her wedding in early May so I bought varieties that said they flowered in May on the labels, but we had an early heatwave and they were all over by then.
Plan B (you'll like this RM) is white roses and yellow freesias.
It will be our 20th wedding anniversary and I 'proposed' to Rob in a poem (that even Fishy would be proud of!) on Valentines day, it is in Grasmere.....our favourite place x
Easily solved! Change the date to March! Seriously planting them later will not work. I suppose it could be done if you had a way of controlling the temperature and light they received, in order to fool them...................so I guess no.
I think white roses and yellow freesias sound lovely. Should be roses about in June.
Oh well, much as I thought really but worth asking. Freesias it is then but thanks for the replies. We can't change it to March as it's actually the date of our anniversary x
You probably could if you planted them in pots and kept them in the fridge for a while. I know they manipulate plants' flowering times for Chelsea in a similar way. I have some small daffs growing in a fully shaded trough on the north side of our northerly house which are in flower every year in Chelsea week, at the end of May, and in a cool spring have even made it into June.
It's worth a try if you have fridge space. Plant up a bunch of bulbs in flats and fill up a shelf of the fridge. Bring them out a number of weeks ahead of time and cross your fingers!
Try filling the fridge this year and see what happens?
We're trialing many plants this year ready for next years wedding on 26th June. So many of them are going to be reliant on what kind of winter and spring we get And we're already looking at paper / silks just in case!