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I'm going to be feeding my blind daffodils but am less confident of being able to dig them up. A few seem buried so deeply now, some of them well into the roots of Clematis, I'm afraid of killing the clems if I dig through their roots too violently!

Pippa any idea what this shaggy daffodil is? I posted a pic of it on Twitter this morning but no takers yet to help me identify it. I know there are plenty of wild variations and maybe it is nameless. http://ow.ly/i/10qe

It's originally from Mull off the west coast of Scotland.

Sheila Averbuch -- Stopwatch Gardener
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  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    my garden has been so cold and water logged, I thought my daffodils wouldn't survive this year ,but there they are looking as lovely as ever, I have lost a lot of the plants in my garden though.sad but true.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Hi Pippa,

    Most of my daffs are blind this year - can you recommend an organic foliage feed please? To be honest, they are cheap DIY store 'One Year' bulbs that I never dug up 4 years ago (and they are pretty crowded as I've just chucked more 'one year' bulbs in over the past few years, except last year), so are they reasonably at the end of their lives and should be replaced, or is there life in the old buggers yet?

    Many thanks!
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Do you know what is eating and destroying the flower heads on our Daffs.particularly the Tete Tete. I have not noticed Birds causing the damage. They are ruined and only in the rear garden.
    Thank you.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    New to this gardening.....did I read somewhere that once the daffodils have flowered when they are on the decline to take off the head, so it won't seed and the goodness will then go into the leaves and bulb for the following year, and to remove the whole of the stalk too?
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    I was brought up with a legend about the daffodil is the king of the marsh- wearing the gold crown.

    It is great, just saw a landscaping blog from north usa were magnolias are in full bloom- they are bit a head.
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    Can anybody tell me when I should plant crocus bulbs? My wife has seen them dotted around lawns and fancies them in one of ours. When we bought our cottage, it came with a couple of hundred feet of gardens, and I'm afraid I'm only a novice gardener so far
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    Hi, My Salomy daffs opened this week end ,thought they were all yellow but on closer exam were pale pink inside trumpet different but still prefere good old yellow. Al
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    Hi,Sutterbug oct/ nov to plant crocus afred too late for this year. AL
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    Can anyone help please. We have a forsythia shrub in our garden which has been there for 10 or more years. This year the flowering is sparse and there are ball like clusters along the branches, I dont know if this is a disease. If so what can be done. All comments will be helpful.
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    Rather perturbed at the number of bees that are dying.Esp on the golf course.
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