Daffodil Garden
Each one was planted 5-6 inches deep so I could plant annuals on top of them when the foliage fades. I don't cut the foliage off them until it goes brown. This ensures the bulb has adequate supplies of energy to produce another flower bud (or three) for next season's blooms.
The bulbs will not be dug or transplanted but will likely remain in this garden until I decide I've had enough of them. Then I'll dig them up right after the foliage goes brown, let them sit cool and dry all summer and replant in the fall in their new location.
Alternately, I could dig them up in the fall and transplant them easily at this time. I'll decide when I have to move them in a few years.
The one thing I'm doing with this daffodil garden is saving the seed from each plant.
When the flowers fade, the seed pod is left and when it turns brown the seed will be ripe. I'll harvest the seed by breaking open the pods and then I'll plant it in small rows (like onions) in a well-raked and smoothed bit of the garden. The seed will be barely covered and then allowed to sit all winter. I'll likely see germination the following spring. Grow like onions for a season and then transplant into the flower garden that fall when the bulbs are quite small.
I expect to be able to fully fill my entire property with my own daffodil bulbs from a single season's seed harvest. This means several thousand bulbs will soon be blooming in my front yard. That will be a daffodil garden!
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Daffodil 'February Gold'
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