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| doobydoobydo 2006-03-30, 10:21 am |
| Hi
If I cut the daffodils growing in my garden for a vase, will it affect them
flowering next year.
Thanks
miz
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| michael adams 2006-03-30, 11:21 am |
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"doobydoobydo" <sclarke624@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> If I cut the daffodils growing in my garden for a vase, will it affect
them
> flowering next year.
> Thanks
> miz
Not so long as you only remove the flowering stalks no.
Depending on the soil conditions continue watering for
at least three weeks after flowering. A low nitrogen
liquid feed is sometimes recommended as well. Treat the
leaves well and make sure they get as much sun as possible
as they convert sunlight to sugars to pass back down to the
bulb for next year. Leave all the leaves on until they're
totally dead. Then just pick them off dried rather than
cutting them off early and allowing any pathogens to get
down into the bulb through the sap in the exposed cut ends.
A high potash low nitrogen ferliser is one recommendation
for daffodils - the other a balanced feed - as they're always
in the process of making new bulbs with each successive season.
However the new bulbs may not flower for the first season or two,
whereas the old bulb may have died off in the meantime. However
if you plant a succession of new bulbs for two or three seasons
running rather than all in the one year - a bit late in the
day now but no matter - this should provide continuity for
seasons to come with no complete blanks.
A lack of flowering for more than one year probably means that
a clump is becoming overcrowded and so would benefit from lifting
and careful splitting.
michael adams
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| Sacha 2006-03-30, 11:21 am |
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doobydoobydo wrote:
> Hi
> If I cut the daffodils growing in my garden for a vase, will it affect them
> flowering next year.
No. It's the leaves that feed the bulb, so be careful not to take too
many of those from one bulb and don't mow them down, let them die back
naturally. From the pov of appearance only, some people with enough
space have a cutting garden, tucked away out of sight. Here, they grow
flowers in rows, rather like vegetables and cut them for the house but
without spoiling the appearance of the rest of their garden.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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| doobydoobydo 2006-03-30, 11:21 am |
| What a good idea a cutting garden.
Thanks Sacha and Michael for the answer.
sheila
"Sacha" <sacha@garden506.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> naturally. From the pov of appearance only, some people with enough
> space have a cutting garden, tucked away out of sight. Here, they grow
> flowers in rows, rather like vegetables and cut them for the house but
> without spoiling the appearance of the rest of their garden.
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
> South Devon
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| Sacha 2006-03-30, 12:21 pm |
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doobydoobydo wrote:[color=darkred]
> What a good idea a cutting garden.
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> Thanks Sacha and Michael for the answer.
> sheila
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> "Sacha" <sacha@garden506.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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And thinking of that, my mother outlaw always grew her sweetpeas up the
inside of the fruit cage, masses and masses of them - two birds with
one stone, as it were!
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| JennyC 2006-03-30, 1:21 pm |
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"doobydoobydo" <sclarke624@btinternet.com> wrote >
> "Sacha" <sacha@garden506.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in
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> What a good idea a cutting garden.
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> Thanks Sacha and Michael for the answer.
> sheila
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Nice idea here :~)
http://gardengal.net/page108.html
Jenny
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| Broadback 2006-03-30, 2:21 pm |
| JennyC wrote:
> "doobydoobydo" <sclarke624@btinternet.com> wrote >
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> Nice idea here :~)
> http://gardengal.net/page108.html
> Jenny
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Having noticed that the local council cut verges before the daff's
leaves have completely died, yet they still flower well the next year, I
have started cutting mine when the council cut their's. I suspect that
one year they will cut too early and I will have no flowers the next year!
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Broadback wrote:
> Having noticed that the local council cut verges before the daff's
> leaves have completely died, yet they still flower well the next year, I
> have started cutting mine when the council cut their's. I suspect that
> one year they will cut too early and I will have no flowers the next year!
I think the rule of thumb is wait 6 weeks, by which time the foliage is
dying down, or starting to do so? Perhaps this year you could note the
date for your own interest and not least, for urgs!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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| michael adams 2006-03-31, 4:21 am |
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"Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote in message
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> JennyC wrote:
grow[color=darkred]
> Having noticed that the local council cut verges before the daff's
> leaves have completely died, yet they still flower well the next year, I
> have started cutting mine when the council cut their's. I suspect that
> one year they will cut too early and I will have no flowers the next year!
<guess>
It may be possible to compensate for early cutting by giving them
a sprinkle of a specially formulated low nitrogen fertiliser a few
weeks beforehand, or at some other time in the year. Not-cutting is
maybe the ideal solution where foliage won't be an eyesore, and is
always stressed because it goes against "common sense" - keeping
everything in the garden as tidy-looking as possible. Much might
also depend presumably, on the overall fertility of the site, the
amount of sunshine it gets - full sun would be better than partial
shade etc and the amount of rainfall. They may also be buying daffs by
the ton and doing secret replantings overnight when nobodies around.
Or just doing regular digging-up and splitting. Much industrial scale
gardening may looks callous and unthinking, but there's often a lot
of sound method behind it, which often goes unnoticed.
</guess>
michael adams
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"michael adams" <mjadams26@onetel.net.uk> wrote
> "Broadback" <wen@towill.plus.com> wrote
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> <guess>
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> It may be possible to compensate for early cutting by giving them
> a sprinkle of a specially formulated low nitrogen fertiliser a few
> weeks beforehand, or at some other time in the year. <snip>
Geoff Hamilton used to recommend sprinkling a handful of rose fertiliser
round them after flowering, so I do this when I remember, as well as
letting the foliage die down, on the grounds that my soil is so light
and hungry anyway, the daffs need all the help they can get.
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Sue
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| michael adams 2006-03-31, 10:21 am |
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"Sue" <sue@allegedly.spamless.plus.com> wrote in message
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> "michael adams" <mjadams26@onetel.net.uk> wrote
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> Geoff Hamilton used to recommend sprinkling a handful of rose fertiliser
> round them after flowering, so I do this when I remember, as well as
> letting the foliage die down, on the grounds that my soil is so light
> and hungry anyway, the daffs need all the help they can get.
>
> --
> Sue
<rant>
I've always had a lot of time for Geoff Hamilton. Who not only
had the grounding in horticulture, having studed it at college,
and started off writing articles in gardening magazines, but
was always trying out new things.
On the other hand I was a regular "Observer" reader when Monty
Don first got the gardening column. The first two years more or
less merely consisted of him "gutting" a book of the week,
presenting it as "his" column, and then just giving an
acknowledgement of the title at the end. The point being that he
was clearly in no postion to judge the accuracy of any of the advice
and information he was relaying. Learning on the job, and badly at
that, and at the readers' expense in other words. No thanks. In
his first book, which I happened to glance through in W.H.Smith
he appeared unable to ditinguish between perlite (white round)
and vermiculite (brown usually, flakes). It maybe goes without saying
that I no longer bother with "Gardeners World". Although I'm given to
understand Monty fills a pair of rough cordrouys to perfection.
</rant >
michael adams
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| Scotia 2006-03-31, 10:21 am |
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Sacha Wrote:
> doobydoobydo wrote:
> Hi
> If I cut the daffodils growing in my garden for a vase, will it affect
> them
> flowering next year.
>
> No. It's the leaves that feed the bulb, so be careful not to take too
> many of those from one bulb and don't mow them down, let them die back
> naturally. From the pov of appearance only, some people with enough
> space have a cutting garden, tucked away out of sight. Here, they
> grow
> flowers in rows, rather like vegetables and cut them for the house but
> without spoiling the appearance of the rest of their garden.
> --
> Sacha
> www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
> South Devon
Sacha Wrote:
> doobydoobydo wrote:
> Hi
> If I cut the daffodils growing in my garden for a vase, will it affect
> them
> flowering next year.
>
I agree with Sacha, however I would also recommend feeding at this
stage.
As has been said let the plants die back naturally, and this plus the
additional supply of nutrients will ensure that the bulbs are fed and
rejuvinated for next years display.
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Scotia
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