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Thanks girls. They're all in now regardless of flowering time, which is mostly spring anyway. I haven't been a big bulb grower in the past and thought that there may be something about cold and damp at planting times.
My name is Don and I'm a bonsaiholic.
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Genius
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I was told to make sure the daffodils I planted didn't dry out - not much chance of that. Some bulbs need a cold spell to help them grow, garlic does - apparently it helps the corms to form. Unfortunately, what I planted shot very quickly and the frost has hit the young shoots. Can only wait and see whether it stops them growing.
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I was thinking that once in place, they can be left but does anyone know if and what needs lifting after flowering or whenever? Sorry to be such a dunce but this is a new area for me.
My name is Don and I'm a bonsaiholic.
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| My large white Iceberg narcissi have been in the front garden for years, but I must admit when the clumps get very big, approx, after 5 years, after flowering, I dig them up and separate the bulbs and replant, mainly to give the bulbs a bit more space. I always throw a good handful of grit into the bottom of the hole, so the bulbs are sitting on the grit and not on directly on the soil. Less risk of bulbs rotting off and better drainage for them. Apart from that I always leave bulbs planted in the soil all year round. I think people who have smaller gardens and like their annual bedding plants in summer mostly dig them up so that they have more room to manoevure and can get their bedding plants in earlier so that they don't have to wait for the large amount of foliage (especially from daffs and tulips), to die down. Of course they can either be dried off and stored in a dry, dark, and airy place, or best way is to bury them in a spare piece of ground until the following late Autumn, when they can be dug up again and re planted into situ.This is of course all extra work and risk of losing some bulbs, therefore I prefer to leave them in the ground, (getting lazy in my old age )
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Daffs, tulips, crocuses and snowdrops can be left to naturlize, but dahlias are more likely to be lifted. Some people leave them in the ground, though. We had a talk on bulbs at the U3A Gardening Group and an experienced grower who grows masses of bulbs in pots each year, then puts the biggest out into the ground and grows on the smaller ones in pots.
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I'm getting the message thanks, which mainly bears out my earlier suspicions. I do, of course, take my Begonias and Dahlias into the cold greenhouse over winter. They are in various containers and are tubers rather than bulbs. I don't dig them out very often, preferring to let the medium that they are growing in dry out slowly. I tend to moisten the medium when signs of new growth are seen, remove the top inch and replace with a compost which has some nutrients in it.
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Genius
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I see that the daffodils I planted a month or so back are shooting - really early. They obviously think that Spring is here.
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Welcome to Garden planters,
We had a talk on bulbs at the U3A Gardening Group and an experienced grower who grows masses of bulbs in pots each year, then puts the biggest out into the ground and grows on the smaller ones in pots.
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Welcome to Garden planters,
I think people who have smaller gardens and like their annual bedding plants in summer mostly dig them up so that they have more room to manoevure and can get their bedding plants in earlier so that they don't have to wait for the large amount of foliage (especially from daffs and tulips), to die down.
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