April 02, 2020 AnnS
Last October I was lucky enough to attend a talk at the local Garden Group on daffodils by John Gibson. I had recently planted 500 daffodil bulbs around by garden hoping for a spectacular display in the Spring. However our badger had other ideas and kept digging them up. They were not eaten but just scattered around the garden. Hoping that John may have some answers to this problem I was very interested in his talk. I learnt that a new daffodil needs 7 years of work from seed to the final flower and that it can take 26 years for a daffodil breeder to win first prize at a prestigious national flower show! John was definitely inspirational and the answer to my problem was to just keep re-planting the daffodils, the deeper the better.
I planted tubs of bulbs with tulips at the bottom with daffodils above followed by Dwarf Iris.
I ordered by bulbs this year from Fentongollan Farm in Cornwall and have been rewarded with a pretty display, especially the
Flair Tulips.
https://www.flowerfarm.co.uk/Catalogue/Bulbs-Plants/Spring-bulbs
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Flair Tulips
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