Right plant, right place, as Roy Lancaster’s book taught us, is a well-known adage and one we all try to live by. Get it right and your garden will love you for it. On closer inspection that phrase belies a whole historical context that is not evident at first sight. I was reminded recently of the stark fact that most of the plants we have in our gardens are from somewhere else. From Asia, the Antipodes, South Africa, to the Americas and continental Europe, these continents have supplied us for centuries with plants that fill our green spaces. Many are now so familiar and yet two hundred plus years ago they arrived as exotic specimens, delighting the Victorians and their predecessors.
Why didn’t my daffodils bloom? It’s probably ‘daffodil blindness’
12.05.2024 - 04:19 / irishtimes.com / Fionnuala Fallon
This year our daffodils only had one or two blooms. In other years it was a blaze of yellow. This has never happened before. What is going on? – AC, Co Galway
Known as “daffodil blindness”, there are several possible reasons why your beautiful blaze of yellow was a shadow of its former self this spring. The first, and the most likely, is that the leaves of the plants were strimmed or mown away last year too soon after the flowers had faded, which would have weakened the bulbs underground and thus affected their ability to bloom well this year. Most bulbous plants slowly draw down the nutrients from their leaves after flowering to fatten up their bulbs and store plenty of food reserves in them. But if their foliage is removed before it’s been allowed to naturally fade away and die off (a process that takes several months), then this isn’t possible.
Another possibility, one that can happen in lighter, naturally free-draining soils, is that last year’s spring drought adversely affected the development of the nascent flowers within the bulbs. Again, this happens when the leaves die off prematurely due to a lack of water and before the bulbs have had a chance to draw down the nutrients and fatten up in readiness for flowering the following year. If you think this might be the problem, then you’ll need to add plenty of organic matter as a generous mulch to the ground next month after the plants have died back. Some generous sprinkles of a slow-release pelleted organic fertiliser also wouldn’t go amiss.
Conversely, daffodils also dislike very wet soil which can result in a poor display of flowers. Given the record rainfall we’ve experienced since last summer, is it possible that the ground in which yours are growing became
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