Daffodil maintenance with no flowering

by Jon
(Pittsburgh, PA)

Our daffodils were all leaves (plentiful) this year. No flowers. Does that mean the leaves were removed too early last year? Should we dig up the bulbs, separate them and replant them? If so should the bulbs be dug up now and replanted in the fall?
Should we do nothing and assume floiwers will appear next spring?

Doug says - there are a ton of articles and questions on this site now about why daffodils or other bulbs don't bloom. Why this happens in your individual garden is a mystery to me because I wasn't there but you've identified several possible causes.

What to do is fairly simple and that's to stop doing whatever it was. :-)

If it were my garden, I'd be leaving the bulbs in one place and letting them grow and develop properly. I'm way too lazy to be digging and storing bulbs given that daffodils do pretty well all by themselves if given half a chance.

Separating daffodils is only necessary if the stand is really old and really crowded (and this condition will reduce flowering) I'd be tempted to do this in the fall or after the plants have died down to the ground. But then replant right away in the fall but store for the summer if you dig in the spring. Frankly, I've had clumps of daffodils flower pretty regularly for over 20 years with no major loss of flowering (but then again, maybe some folks like to feed them a whole bunch more than I ever did)

Hope that helps a little.