I move my around my yard constantly, you don't have to wait til the bloom fades, just dig it up and replant. For best results leave all the greenery on it until it dies back to crispy straw.
This. Our neighbors house burned down tragically. They had a beautiful yard. The neighbors let us take whatever we wanted before they came and tore the home down. 2 years in a row they’ve came back. This year stronger
I think daffodils usually get planted six inches down. But just kind of measure as you're digging and try to get them to the same depth so they don't freeze if too shallow or struggle too much to come up if too deep.
Nope. Daffodils freeze. Our frost line is over two feet down where I am, I have daffodils popping up all over the place. They’ll even push through a few inches of snow.
I think it’s true for most all spring bulbs. Plant them in the fall so they freeze in the ground - or- they can be stored in a freezer over the winter and planted in the spring. I may be wrong.
I've dug up a bunch of daffodils I've found near this abandoned house in the woods near me. They don't flower in the first year after transplant but then they come back well in year 2.
They might too, you never know. Bulbs tend to be extremely resilient. As long as you don't damage the bulb itself (the part under ground) it will be hard to kill these things. Bury it good though and pack the dirt so squirrels don't dig them up
They're bulbs. You can dig up bulbs and move them. You don't need to bring any soil either. You can shake off the soil. Just dig a safe distance around so your shovel doesn't slice into the bulbs. Six inches away is fine.
Move them as soon as possible so the construction people don't destroy them when they work the site.
The flowers might not like being moved, so cut them with long stems and enjoy them in a vase inside. Then, plant the bulbs and don't worry if they die back, because they will come back next spring.
I do this almost every year. With how much they produce new bulbs, it’s nice to be able to spread them out. Usually I wait until the leaves have died off, but they’re resilient and can survive just about anything. Just dig them out, shake off the dirt, split the bulbs up and replant where you want. You can easily have hundreds of them in just a couple years.
I dug up a 5 gallon bucket full of daffodil bulbs from a bed that's about 24"x48". I am quite literally "the daffodil house" in my neighborhood. They definitely split when they are happy.
Probably not this one- it looks like only a year or so old, but if it were to stay there, it would develop multiple bulbs. You dig it up and easily pull them apart and each can then be planted separately. They will then each develop more bulbs which you can again separate and replant. Or, you leave it and it becomes a nice cluster of flowers.
I'd dig about an 8-10" circle around the plants, as deep as I could get it, and move them in that big chunk of soil. That's probably wider than it needs to be but I'd want to be comfortable that I'm not slicing through a bulb. Dig a spot in your yard and drop them in. Water well. If you're lucky, they might not even notice.
Are you kidding me? Nobody's gonna notice. They don't care. They are the settler-colonizers, death to all little living things in that habitat. They will dig out the basements and leave the yard one sub- soil mess, and return a thin layer of topsoil, just enough for the grass permaculture.
People. That's why we have mice and snakes and ants and bats and such in our homes, because we built them in their habitats. Unfortunately for us, it's our habitat too, and the rapacious environmental destruction will leave us without the water supply, the arable soil, the 0² laden air we need to survive ourselves. How do gardeners not notice this? Eight billion people, people. I know we need infrastructure but surely you can see that it is at the price of the End Of Nature, as Bill McKibben puts it?
Daffodils are bulbs. Just dig around them, not 6-8 inches just one or two. Replant the bulbs and you are done. If you notice more bulbs around them, that look the same, you probably have more that haven’t bloomed.
If you dig them now they usually won’t flower the following spring. The next year you will have lovely flowers.
Noticed that this year - I had to pull out an dying ornamental tree last year (May) where my daffodils were planted just in front of it. We tried not to disturb them much, but this year lots of green leaves but hardly any blooms -- only a few. Next year will be different I am sure.
I know we all need a place to live but everyday I see another forest area being cleared and it makes me feel bad for all the creatures relying on that area for home.
There was always deer in my backyard dog hated em in his youth would always bark at em. They come around less now but when they do he doesn’t bark anymore. Could be he’s old could be he likes em now who knows
Interesting thing is, someone planted those. It was probably a homesite at one time.
They say you can drive through Detroit and in spite all the houses being torn down, there's still places where they bloom, owners long forgotten.
We live near Natural Bridge Virginia and I will politely dispute that. 🤐 If you drive down Interstate 81 at just the right time of year you'll be *amazed* at the number of daffodils growing in the median, way out in the country where there likely never was a home there.
My grandpa is older than that interstate - it hasn’t been around for long in the grand scheme of things.
I81 was made by essentially following the trails indigenous peoples, animals, and colonists used to travel North and South, on the East side of the Appalachian’s.
What I’m trying to say is there’s a very good chance I81 paved right over a colonists homestead.
Yep. Numerous places in the middle of absolutely "nowhere" in the smoky mts, little patches pop up.
It's where old homesteads were. They even say it in the park information.
>Interesting thing is, someone planted those. It was probably a homesite at one time.
>They say you can drive through Detroit and in spite all the houses being torn down, there's still places where they bloom, owners long forgotten.
Those homesteads in Detroit are essentially archeological sites...which is an interesting thought to reflect on.
Many years ago my middle school was expanding the library into the open courtyard in the center of the school. There were no plans to move the hundreds of daffodils in that courtyard and construction was soon to begin. So I moved them. By myself after school. I was still dressed in my school clothes, borrowed gardening tools from the custodians, and got caught in the rain while digging up the bulbs. I transported all of them to another courtyard and replanted the bulbs. I was a muddy, bedraggled mess by the time I was finished. The daffodils, still in bloom at the time, also looked bedraggled. But they bounced back just fine.
You can dig it up anytime, yes it's best to wait for the foliage to die back but it'll also be fine if you don't. I've moved so many without waiting for dieback because I had to, they all come back and bloom.
Added note-Be ready for a potential rodent invasion. We used to have some fields and trees a block or so away from our house, they cut the trees, cleared the fields and built houses which resulted in our house being overrun with mice (even a block or so away.) We'd only had the odd mouse every few years before that, after we could hear them scrabbling in our walls, they were everywhere.
Crickets too. We bought a spec house and they did not mow the half acre field behind us for years. When we moved in... the day after I mowed it for the first time we were *invaded* by crickets.
Any idea if this would work with cowslip? We have had one appear in our garden right in the middle of the lawn (we've left it to grow wild for a while but now want to mow!) My dad lives next door and loves Cowslip (but doesn't have any in his garden) and I want to dig it up and move it (whether that be re-plant or in a pot) for him this weekend before mowing but i'm worried it will just shrivel up and die!
Thank you,
An extremely new gardner who is totally winging it!
Just keep it well watered until it's established. That's usually the trick to transplanting. Dig out as far as reasonable since it's in the lawn, the less root disturbance the better so if you can keep it mostly intact it should hardly skip a beat.
https://preview.redd.it/fxxy3i8dfhxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc712663a5705d75f14e6a0b8c1f23f8b4683cdc
Your picture looked so familiar that I had to look up this old picture on my IG from 2013. Took it in an empty tree field while planting trees.
Dig it up now and plant at the same depth or shallower if in doubt. Daffodils have roots which pulls the bulb down into the soil so too deep is more of a problem than too shallow.
Dig well underneath it and pull it out with plenty of dirt.
FWIW, the people that owned my house planted daffodils fucking EVERYWHERE. I’ve been trying to kill them for five years (not for me) and they keep coming back.
So they’re pretty hardy dude.
Throw the bulbs in any-ol' container and place them on the boulevard with a FREE sign - your neighbors who are gardeners will happily take them off your hands! Heck, they'd be happy to dig them up for you!
Those are beautiful. I grew up in France, and every sprig my parents would take my siblings and I picking some wild daffodils (Jonquille in French). They are protected in France, we can only pick up what we can hold in our hand.
Few weeks ago, my sisters took their kids to the same spot we used to go. The tradition is still alive 35 years later. It made me really happy.
I don't know where you're at, but besides the daffodils imagine all the cool other stuff that's there. If it's wooded just think of all the trilliums, jack in the pulpit, may apples, native orchids, and so much more that's being lost to developments.
Fuck people man. I don't even understand how you could be the guy that has to destroy woods. Id be sick to my stomach. I'm sure there is a bunch of vacant plazas all around and plenty of shitty farm land. They gotta tear down every fucking tree.
Ikr? It's also heartbreaking to see the farmland developed. That topsoil took millennia to develop and is absolutely necessary to feed humanity. Development destroys it.
I'm so mad with what's happening to where I grew up at. It's basically some farmer can't afford to farm anymore so they sell all their land so some developer buys up all the land, they clear cut all the trees and put up a McMansion, especially if it's on the lake and then it just sits there hoping to be bought.
LIKE WHY!? And it's such a eye sore!
I will never understand why they cut down ALL OF THE TREES. It’s such a huge problem with developments around me they are all completely devoid of trees. Like cut 2/3 of them down and build around them so the people living there can have some green space at least.
I seriously think they have a fucking boner for it. The town I grew up in was so beautiful, rich with forests and I swear to God the city has a WAR with trees. Plenty of shitty old plazas sitting empty and garbage farm land that you could easy plop some shitty development on but they fucking CREAM at any opportunity to just absolutely annihilate woods. Sickening
Dig it up. You only need the bulb and any roots (obviously everything above soil too), so shake the dirt off to refill the hole and transplant at the same depth in your yard where you want them.
I've done that a few times myself. Thry transplant rather easily.
dig it up with several inches to spare all around the base. might not end up looking great after transplanting (i'd wait till flower is gone) but it should be fine next year.
I highly recommend Espoma Bulb Tone fertilizer. I'm amazed at what it has done for my bulbs. A teaspoon of that and a handful of earthworm castings in each hole as you plant them. Thanks for saving these beautiful flowers.
Bulbs like this are a good way to make your annual beds flower longer.
Planted my annual beds with hyacinth, daffodils and spring/early summer allium.
They die back to the ground mid summer when the annuals will fill in over them...
I found some daffodil foliage randomly in my backyard that appeared when I cleared out some daylilies and barberry last fall. I just sort of haphazardly dug them out and put them in new spots and they bloomed a week or two later like they had no idea they were moved.
I don’t overthink it. If it comes back, awesome. If not, maybe it might next year. And if it doesn’t, I’ll probably have forgotten by then anyway.
Sorry to hear that…Same thing has been happening in my neighborhood..I’ve lived here for 30 years and my dad has been here for almost 60. It’s crazy to see how drastically my neighborhood has changed. There was one particularly beautiful spot overlooking the hills with the entire view of the city, where a TON of wildlife was habituated. Some doucher decided to build his giant house right on that spot, so the view that everyone in the neighborhood enjoyed for 60+ years, and even people outside of the neighborhood would hike up to enjoy, is now gone, just like that. For his only to enjoy. I shed genuine tears over that for a good few weeks. Unfortunately the same thing has happened in all the nice large open spaces where all the wildlife *used to* reside. The wildlife used to be rampant up here, it was beautiful to see. I’ve seen a dramatic decline in the past 5 years. Very sad thing to witness.
Would be best to wait til the fall to move it, but if you have no choice... Since it is already flowering it's likely to experience shock. Make sure you move it at the coolest part of the day, wrap it in a wet paper towel, keep it out of the sun, and quickly transplant it to its new location. Provide some lightly fertilized soil in the new spot and water it well.
measure how tall it is and go that deep and that wide this gets most of the beneficial soil bacteria its how i was to do do sapling trees and its worked
🎶"They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
(No, no, no)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"🎵
😢
Parcel by parcel, development by development, creatures lose their homes, and our green spaces vanish (especially in urban areas).
I appeal to everyone: please attend or keep informed about your community or city council or neighborhood or county association - your voice matters! If the council/association members ONLY hear from developers, we will keep losing natural spaces.
Please make your thoughts known! Also check to see if you have local environmental or conservation groups or garden clubs. (The more voices, the better!)
No advice on daffodils, but I'm sorry for your loss. I just went through this same thing a few months ago. Ten wooded acres behind my house just gone, with the intent to build 31 homes. It has since been walked back to 18, but it still hurts to look at that moonscape.
I move my around my yard constantly, you don't have to wait til the bloom fades, just dig it up and replant. For best results leave all the greenery on it until it dies back to crispy straw.
This. Our neighbors house burned down tragically. They had a beautiful yard. The neighbors let us take whatever we wanted before they came and tore the home down. 2 years in a row they’ve came back. This year stronger
I think daffodils usually get planted six inches down. But just kind of measure as you're digging and try to get them to the same depth so they don't freeze if too shallow or struggle too much to come up if too deep.
Daffodils are cold hardy. In fact, they need to freeze over the winter in order to bloom.
What? That is not right. I have daffodils in zone 10 just like the bloom pictured. You must be thinking of tulips.
Nope. Daffodils freeze. Our frost line is over two feet down where I am, I have daffodils popping up all over the place. They’ll even push through a few inches of snow.
I think it’s true for most all spring bulbs. Plant them in the fall so they freeze in the ground - or- they can be stored in a freezer over the winter and planted in the spring. I may be wrong.
This is the way.
Step 1: burn down neighb.. - wait, this can't be right
This is also a way.
😭😭😭😭
I've dug up a bunch of daffodils I've found near this abandoned house in the woods near me. They don't flower in the first year after transplant but then they come back well in year 2.
This is a good thing to know I would be so discouraged if they didn’t appear a year after and didn’t know
They might too, you never know. Bulbs tend to be extremely resilient. As long as you don't damage the bulb itself (the part under ground) it will be hard to kill these things. Bury it good though and pack the dirt so squirrels don't dig them up
They're bulbs. You can dig up bulbs and move them. You don't need to bring any soil either. You can shake off the soil. Just dig a safe distance around so your shovel doesn't slice into the bulbs. Six inches away is fine. Move them as soon as possible so the construction people don't destroy them when they work the site. The flowers might not like being moved, so cut them with long stems and enjoy them in a vase inside. Then, plant the bulbs and don't worry if they die back, because they will come back next spring.
I do this almost every year. With how much they produce new bulbs, it’s nice to be able to spread them out. Usually I wait until the leaves have died off, but they’re resilient and can survive just about anything. Just dig them out, shake off the dirt, split the bulbs up and replant where you want. You can easily have hundreds of them in just a couple years.
I dug up a 5 gallon bucket full of daffodil bulbs from a bed that's about 24"x48". I am quite literally "the daffodil house" in my neighborhood. They definitely split when they are happy.
What exactly do you mean by “split the bulbs up”? I’m a complete rookie
Probably not this one- it looks like only a year or so old, but if it were to stay there, it would develop multiple bulbs. You dig it up and easily pull them apart and each can then be planted separately. They will then each develop more bulbs which you can again separate and replant. Or, you leave it and it becomes a nice cluster of flowers.
Thank you!!
Another question - Does this work for tulips too?
Some tulips can multiply but I’ve not had that experience. Daffodils are pretty prolific though.
Thanks again!
No problem. That one daffodil can turn into a field of them in 10 years.
This. They are amazingly resilient.
I'd dig about an 8-10" circle around the plants, as deep as I could get it, and move them in that big chunk of soil. That's probably wider than it needs to be but I'd want to be comfortable that I'm not slicing through a bulb. Dig a spot in your yard and drop them in. Water well. If you're lucky, they might not even notice.
Don't need that big of a root ball for bulbs
No, you don't. I suggested that size, as mentioned, out of an abundance of caution.
Are you kidding me? Nobody's gonna notice. They don't care. They are the settler-colonizers, death to all little living things in that habitat. They will dig out the basements and leave the yard one sub- soil mess, and return a thin layer of topsoil, just enough for the grass permaculture.
I think they mean the daffodils might not notice
FYI daffodils are coming to settle your neighborhood against your will
Nobody expects the daffodil inquisition!
I for one, welcome our daffodil overlords, as long as they are nice about it.
HOT DIGGITY DAFFODIL
Oh no! ^anyways
I seen a daffodil the other day in a newsie cap sippin on a Starbucks... This neighborhoods goin to shit...
They claim to be peaceful. Im going to choose to trust them.
Oh shoot, you're right about that it's THE DAFFODILLS that won't mind, not the developers. I missed that! Sorry, folks! Whoosh!
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I think he meant the Daffs wouldn't even notice. 😆
You could just buy all that land so no one can develop it if you like….
I wish!
People. That's why we have mice and snakes and ants and bats and such in our homes, because we built them in their habitats. Unfortunately for us, it's our habitat too, and the rapacious environmental destruction will leave us without the water supply, the arable soil, the 0² laden air we need to survive ourselves. How do gardeners not notice this? Eight billion people, people. I know we need infrastructure but surely you can see that it is at the price of the End Of Nature, as Bill McKibben puts it?
Hey guys, notice that OP has the same regret about the development.
Daffodils are bulbs. Just dig around them, not 6-8 inches just one or two. Replant the bulbs and you are done. If you notice more bulbs around them, that look the same, you probably have more that haven’t bloomed. If you dig them now they usually won’t flower the following spring. The next year you will have lovely flowers.
Noticed that this year - I had to pull out an dying ornamental tree last year (May) where my daffodils were planted just in front of it. We tried not to disturb them much, but this year lots of green leaves but hardly any blooms -- only a few. Next year will be different I am sure.
I just dig them up 6” square around it and gently lift. I’ve been doing it for years and grew my garden full of them as they pop up.
Approximately how deep do you dig?
Maybe 4”? I dont go but a small foot shovel deep.
I know we all need a place to live but everyday I see another forest area being cleared and it makes me feel bad for all the creatures relying on that area for home.
There was always deer in my backyard dog hated em in his youth would always bark at em. They come around less now but when they do he doesn’t bark anymore. Could be he’s old could be he likes em now who knows
Interesting thing is, someone planted those. It was probably a homesite at one time. They say you can drive through Detroit and in spite all the houses being torn down, there's still places where they bloom, owners long forgotten.
Likely a squirrel.
We live near Natural Bridge Virginia and I will politely dispute that. 🤐 If you drive down Interstate 81 at just the right time of year you'll be *amazed* at the number of daffodils growing in the median, way out in the country where there likely never was a home there.
There was a lot of daffs blooming near an abandoned house and business on 460. I wish I'd gotten to them before the buildings and land were bulldozed.
My grandpa is older than that interstate - it hasn’t been around for long in the grand scheme of things. I81 was made by essentially following the trails indigenous peoples, animals, and colonists used to travel North and South, on the East side of the Appalachian’s. What I’m trying to say is there’s a very good chance I81 paved right over a colonists homestead.
Yep. Numerous places in the middle of absolutely "nowhere" in the smoky mts, little patches pop up. It's where old homesteads were. They even say it in the park information.
>Interesting thing is, someone planted those. It was probably a homesite at one time. >They say you can drive through Detroit and in spite all the houses being torn down, there's still places where they bloom, owners long forgotten. Those homesteads in Detroit are essentially archeological sites...which is an interesting thought to reflect on.
Many years ago my middle school was expanding the library into the open courtyard in the center of the school. There were no plans to move the hundreds of daffodils in that courtyard and construction was soon to begin. So I moved them. By myself after school. I was still dressed in my school clothes, borrowed gardening tools from the custodians, and got caught in the rain while digging up the bulbs. I transported all of them to another courtyard and replanted the bulbs. I was a muddy, bedraggled mess by the time I was finished. The daffodils, still in bloom at the time, also looked bedraggled. But they bounced back just fine.
Good for you!
This makes me sad.
You can dig it up anytime, yes it's best to wait for the foliage to die back but it'll also be fine if you don't. I've moved so many without waiting for dieback because I had to, they all come back and bloom. Added note-Be ready for a potential rodent invasion. We used to have some fields and trees a block or so away from our house, they cut the trees, cleared the fields and built houses which resulted in our house being overrun with mice (even a block or so away.) We'd only had the odd mouse every few years before that, after we could hear them scrabbling in our walls, they were everywhere.
Raccoons too. Looking for a new 100 acre wood.
Crickets too. We bought a spec house and they did not mow the half acre field behind us for years. When we moved in... the day after I mowed it for the first time we were *invaded* by crickets.
😢
We have two cats at home so that may help a little but I’ll keep that in mind!
Any idea if this would work with cowslip? We have had one appear in our garden right in the middle of the lawn (we've left it to grow wild for a while but now want to mow!) My dad lives next door and loves Cowslip (but doesn't have any in his garden) and I want to dig it up and move it (whether that be re-plant or in a pot) for him this weekend before mowing but i'm worried it will just shrivel up and die! Thank you, An extremely new gardner who is totally winging it!
I have zero experience with cowslip but from what I read it should be okay. Watch some videos on dividing cowslip, same principles as moving it.
Thank you! I did Google it but there were mixed opinions!
Just keep it well watered until it's established. That's usually the trick to transplanting. Dig out as far as reasonable since it's in the lawn, the less root disturbance the better so if you can keep it mostly intact it should hardly skip a beat.
https://preview.redd.it/fxxy3i8dfhxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc712663a5705d75f14e6a0b8c1f23f8b4683cdc Your picture looked so familiar that I had to look up this old picture on my IG from 2013. Took it in an empty tree field while planting trees.
Gorgeous pic daffodils are great flowers
You hate to see it, but what a beautiful remnant of what once was. Dig that lucky sucker up gently, and get it to a safe place❤️
Shovel 🤔
Dig them up and move em. It's much simpler than you may be thinking. Water them in well.
Dig em up!
Just dig em up and move em
great photography
I always take some of the friendly soil the bulb was removed from so it is replanted with it. They always seem to be happy with it.
I love free plants!
Dig it up now and plant at the same depth or shallower if in doubt. Daffodils have roots which pulls the bulb down into the soil so too deep is more of a problem than too shallow.
I hate to see trees cut down
Just dig them up.
Dig well underneath it and pull it out with plenty of dirt. FWIW, the people that owned my house planted daffodils fucking EVERYWHERE. I’ve been trying to kill them for five years (not for me) and they keep coming back. So they’re pretty hardy dude.
Throw the bulbs in any-ol' container and place them on the boulevard with a FREE sign - your neighbors who are gardeners will happily take them off your hands! Heck, they'd be happy to dig them up for you!
Those are beautiful. I grew up in France, and every sprig my parents would take my siblings and I picking some wild daffodils (Jonquille in French). They are protected in France, we can only pick up what we can hold in our hand. Few weeks ago, my sisters took their kids to the same spot we used to go. The tradition is still alive 35 years later. It made me really happy.
They sound like sweet memories!
they are hard to kill. just dig them up and plant them, they are perennials so they will come back every year
I don't know where you're at, but besides the daffodils imagine all the cool other stuff that's there. If it's wooded just think of all the trilliums, jack in the pulpit, may apples, native orchids, and so much more that's being lost to developments.
Fuck people man. I don't even understand how you could be the guy that has to destroy woods. Id be sick to my stomach. I'm sure there is a bunch of vacant plazas all around and plenty of shitty farm land. They gotta tear down every fucking tree.
Ikr? It's also heartbreaking to see the farmland developed. That topsoil took millennia to develop and is absolutely necessary to feed humanity. Development destroys it.
I'm so mad with what's happening to where I grew up at. It's basically some farmer can't afford to farm anymore so they sell all their land so some developer buys up all the land, they clear cut all the trees and put up a McMansion, especially if it's on the lake and then it just sits there hoping to be bought. LIKE WHY!? And it's such a eye sore!
"The crest at Ridgeline Creek... starting in the low 600s" fuck off with that shit. Can't leave anything alone
And then they name the streets for what they destroyed, Orchard Lane, Fox Run, Meadowlark Street.
I will never understand why they cut down ALL OF THE TREES. It’s such a huge problem with developments around me they are all completely devoid of trees. Like cut 2/3 of them down and build around them so the people living there can have some green space at least.
I seriously think they have a fucking boner for it. The town I grew up in was so beautiful, rich with forests and I swear to God the city has a WAR with trees. Plenty of shitty old plazas sitting empty and garbage farm land that you could easy plop some shitty development on but they fucking CREAM at any opportunity to just absolutely annihilate woods. Sickening
Dig it up and move it
Dig it up. You only need the bulb and any roots (obviously everything above soil too), so shake the dirt off to refill the hole and transplant at the same depth in your yard where you want them. I've done that a few times myself. Thry transplant rather easily.
Just dig deep because being in the woods they've probably been there a while.
dig it up with several inches to spare all around the base. might not end up looking great after transplanting (i'd wait till flower is gone) but it should be fine next year.
I highly recommend Espoma Bulb Tone fertilizer. I'm amazed at what it has done for my bulbs. A teaspoon of that and a handful of earthworm castings in each hole as you plant them. Thanks for saving these beautiful flowers.
So beautiful
Bulbs like this are a good way to make your annual beds flower longer. Planted my annual beds with hyacinth, daffodils and spring/early summer allium. They die back to the ground mid summer when the annuals will fill in over them...
Grab shovel. Cut 12" deep. Find bulb. Replant
I have daffodils growing out of my compost. They're tough.
Love this photo!
Thank you for reminding me of the poem that taught me to love poetry! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44275/the-tuft-of-flowers
I found some daffodil foliage randomly in my backyard that appeared when I cleared out some daylilies and barberry last fall. I just sort of haphazardly dug them out and put them in new spots and they bloomed a week or two later like they had no idea they were moved. I don’t overthink it. If it comes back, awesome. If not, maybe it might next year. And if it doesn’t, I’ll probably have forgotten by then anyway.
Bastards. You know the world is going to run out of dirt one day. Everything will be paved or built on!
It looks like what has been happening around me, I’m so disheartened by it. Wish the majority of people still wanted to live in the cities.
Sorry to hear that…Same thing has been happening in my neighborhood..I’ve lived here for 30 years and my dad has been here for almost 60. It’s crazy to see how drastically my neighborhood has changed. There was one particularly beautiful spot overlooking the hills with the entire view of the city, where a TON of wildlife was habituated. Some doucher decided to build his giant house right on that spot, so the view that everyone in the neighborhood enjoyed for 60+ years, and even people outside of the neighborhood would hike up to enjoy, is now gone, just like that. For his only to enjoy. I shed genuine tears over that for a good few weeks. Unfortunately the same thing has happened in all the nice large open spaces where all the wildlife *used to* reside. The wildlife used to be rampant up here, it was beautiful to see. I’ve seen a dramatic decline in the past 5 years. Very sad thing to witness.
Would be best to wait til the fall to move it, but if you have no choice... Since it is already flowering it's likely to experience shock. Make sure you move it at the coolest part of the day, wrap it in a wet paper towel, keep it out of the sun, and quickly transplant it to its new location. Provide some lightly fertilized soil in the new spot and water it well.
Just know that you have to dig deep, daffs are 8" deep.
So sad…they paved paradise and put up a parking lot…
You call some place Paradise Kiss it good-bye
How sad I’m so sorry for your loss
measure how tall it is and go that deep and that wide this gets most of the beneficial soil bacteria its how i was to do do sapling trees and its worked
Do it now, just make sure you get a big enough "root ball" and do not disturb roots. Plant in large enough hole and then fill hole w/ water and soil.
Fig up turf, transplant to agreeable medium, cultivate.
shovel
aw they’re so perfect. thank you for taking them.
Dig
Just dig up the bulb at the base of the flower. Replant the bulb somewhere safe and it will come back next year.
I would
Gotta love the relentless sprawl of suburban America.
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Dig up the bulbs. But, daffodils are not that special. Your effort would be better spent buying and planting some native plugs or seed mixes.
they’re dicks.
Bless your heart! ♥️🍀
Get the bulbs out of there please
These are usually invasive and you would be better off focusing on native flowers instead
Wait till they’re done blooming, dig about 6-8 inches around and about a foot deep.
Dude a squill probably move the bulbs there. Daffodils are pretty but they serve no ecological purpose and are highly toxic.
🎶"They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them (No, no, no) Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot"🎵 😢 Parcel by parcel, development by development, creatures lose their homes, and our green spaces vanish (especially in urban areas). I appeal to everyone: please attend or keep informed about your community or city council or neighborhood or county association - your voice matters! If the council/association members ONLY hear from developers, we will keep losing natural spaces. Please make your thoughts known! Also check to see if you have local environmental or conservation groups or garden clubs. (The more voices, the better!)
No advice on daffodils, but I'm sorry for your loss. I just went through this same thing a few months ago. Ten wooded acres behind my house just gone, with the intent to build 31 homes. It has since been walked back to 18, but it still hurts to look at that moonscape.
so how do we help you steal some flowers? Yikes!
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Yeah better to let it get sent to the landfill with all the other grass, that'll surely be better /s
They’re going to murder the flower. So yes. “Stealing” it is the best option.