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Bulb virus
Sue481
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Most of the daffodil and snowdrop leaves under my fruit trees have turned brown and yellow. I have dug them up in case it is a virus disease but as the bulbs all looked healthy in other respects I wonder if I've misdiagnosed. Anyone had any experience of virus or similar?
I've put them in the green waste bin so please respond asap if there is hope. Thanks Sue
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Do they look different from last year? that's what bulbs do after flowering, the leaves die back til next year.
Snowdrops have gone well done that path now and so have the early daffs
Last edited: 18 April 2017 17:46:31
In the sticks near Peterborough
Fish them out and plant them again. They need 6 weeks minimum after flowering finishes for the foliage to make food to build up the bud for next year's flowers. Tell them your sorry and give them a good drink and some food. Once the leaves are completely brown just pull them off and compost them.
If you grow them through other plants the dying foliage is less noticeable.
Last edited: 18 April 2017 18:00:36
Thankyou so much, I feel rather silly now but relieved. X
I'm silly most of the time.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Don't feel silly. We all make daft mistakes on our learning curve and there's plenty of scope in gardening as there's so much to know. Well done for asking, do your best to fix it and come back with more questions as needed.
Thankyou for your kind words. I have replanted, fed and watered.
Sadly i am not a novice gardener, several factors transpired to make me jump to the wrong conclusion; I removed a hedge this winter that used to shade these bulbs, and the changes in temperature, strong sun then frost probably hastened their leaf deterioration, they didn't fade so drastically in previous years, I have been plagued by Vine weevils and so have been looking at pests & diseases a lot!
Kind regards Sue
Easy mistake. I have a new garden this year having moved from a colder, wetter but very fertile garden to a much sunnier, warmer, drier one here which is practically a blank canvas so fertility unknown as yet. I have noticed that the daffs that have popped up in the ground go over a lot faster than I'm used to. On the other hand, the autumn daffs we discovered in October when we arrived, still have green leaves just starting to go brown. Odd.