How to get the best display of daffodils, next stages of the mini wildflower meadow and some easy, thrifty gardening storage ideas in the potting shed. Join us for the spring garden tour and tips.
0:00 Welcome
0:43 Tips on growing daffodils
1:06 To find a garden on the National Garden Scheme (UK): https://ngs.org.uk/find-a-garden/
2:23 Divide your daffodils
3:17 Reasons why your daffodil may not have flowered
4:22 Where to plant daffodils
5:40 Euphorbia robbiae or Mediterranean spurge
6:00 Progress of the mini meadow
7:08 Storage tips in the potting shed
7:31 William Ford (artist) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/w.illiamf.ord/
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42 Comments
Great video. It was reassuring to hear my observations about double daffodils are echoed by your gardening friends. Double daffs don't hold up in the weather, learned that lesson. I love all daffodils but a favorite is Ice Follies. Thanks for the update on your meadow. I think it looks good for it's first spring. Do you also have grape hyacinths in it? I love them and mine self sow. Also seeing Lottie is a joy. Greetings from Albany, NY, USA
Your Meadow garden is such a sweet idea. Well worth the effort and great for the bees 🐝.
I'm so glad to see your updates on the mini meadow. It's an interesting idea that I hadn't ever thought of. I will see how you get along with yours and may end up trying one myself.🙂
Ive gone to growing daffodils because the squirrels eat all my tulip bulbs. Its amazing the variety of daffs that are available now.
Your garden is lovely. I have a small backyard and an L shape small garden bed with bushes, bulbs, trees and perennial plants. I have a golden doodle which is growing bigger every day. She likes to pee on the lawn and run and dig in my small flower bed. A lot of spring bulb leaves are broken already. And young shoots of perennial are breaking. What should I do to keep her out of my flower bed?
Daffodils are the main thing in my early spring garden. I cannot grow tulips or crocus because of the deer.
Last spring I had some daffodils that needed dividing. I dug them up, gathering at least two or three gallons of bulbs. I lost energy planting them al. Because I'm a lazy gardener I took my 2 yr old grandson & the bucket of bulbs. We walked along the wild edges of my yard; along the top of an overgrown ravine & the edge of a woodland & took turns tossing the bulbs into the thickets & leaf piles. I'd decided to just throw them away but hoped a few might root & eventually bloom. This spring, almost every one has sprouted & most of those are blooming! I was amazed. I plan to do the same thing again this spring with another clump that needs dividing.
Love the potting shed with all the creative ways to store things! I had an old over-the-door pocket shoe rack that I use in my garden shed. It works wonderfully!
Just this week I put a metal grid on my garden shed wall after seeing the one behind you. What a great idea! Love your channel and stair forward easy to understand information.
Thank you for the lovely video! Do you know any tips against the narcissus bulb fly which lays its eggs on the foliage and then the larvae eat the bulb. I have to replant daffodils every year!
I have often wondered where your main border ends. I know you have said your garden is L-shaped. Is that hedge the edge of your property, on that side? Thank you for the glimpse of it in the overhead shot today. I never noticed the path there before.
I do love daffodils! Snow drops are exciting, but daffodils are so much brighter and cheerier. I'm trying to get them to spread all over my wooded yard under my trees. I'm getting a little more every year. They are starting to multiply nicely, so I believe this year will be a dig-n-divide year. More FREE plants- so exciting! ☺️
Excellent video, as always!
May you have a blessed and happy Easter. 🌼
What variety is your ground cover clematis? Are certain varieties better to use as a ground cover? I’ve never thought to use clematis that way but would love to try it somewhere in my garden.
Thank you Alexandra. Always love your advice. I planted daffodils, tulips, crocus and hyacinths in pots last fall and they are coming up nicely. When they are done can I just shake them up and keep them in storage or do I have to plant them in the ground? Thank you
I spent hours and hours of planting over 500 bulbs last year, I live in the north west of England, we have so much rain, and wind, what hadn’t rotted have now snapped in half, my Sarah Raven dahlias never flowered last year, and I think most of my salvias haven’t survived our winter, I am THEE most unluckiest gardener, the garden is my greatest pleasure and my biggest frustration! I’ll carry on, just ordered another £150 of dahlias…wish me luck! 😂
Thanks. I've got a lot of inherited daffodils to lift and divide then…
What should I do with the baby bulbs? Can they be planted elsewhere or for the composter?
O ! The light and all the colors, you look just lovely. Must be spring.
I'm always late, 'cause it's only 1:15 pm where i am, whilst it's 7:15 pm in Kent.
I know you say not to tie the leaves of daffodils etc, but is there any harm in doing so? I do it because it makes them look neater, but I'll stop if it's not good them.
Wonderful!😍
Thank-you another good video 📹 keep well 😊
I love spring and one of the reason are narcissus… and other lovely spring bulbs… Stay safe…
I've never been much of a daffodil fan – until recently. A grower has a roadside stall (on the Trentham to Daylesford Road) and I stopped and bought a couple of bunches. They were King Alfreds I'd say and I cannot tell you how much they brightened up my house! They were just adorable, so I'm getting a heap of bulbs for my own garden. Thanks for all the tips here Alexandra!
I love your mini meadow! I am sure it’s gonna work out very well, just need to wait a bit longer. I would like to plant something similar in my front yard 🙂
We planted 250 daffs this past year and most are coming up. We did Dutch Masters and Pueblos. They seem to be rather slow coming up. Your dog made me laugh zooming across the yard. Whatever happened in the corner where the old pergola came down?
Always a wealth of inspiration! Thank you, Alexandria!
My understanding is that it takes a few years for a wildflower meadow to become established. But they say in the first few years, weeding is essential, to remove annual and especially perennial weeds. I had one long ago and did not keep it up, so I am looking forward to seeing yours progress.
Great Tips thanks for sharing
Happy Easter Alexandria! My Brecks order arrived today and it felt like Christmas! I had to hide it from my husband 🤣 I've posted a brief video on my page of my first blooms in my rose garden if you’re interested. Thanks for the lovely and informative video💕
Daffodils are my favorite spring flower and so nice under deciduous trees as you said. Loved the shed tour! It's a great backdrop for your videos, thank you for showing us the rest of it and explaining the repurposing of materials. 💚
Thank you 👍
Top vid as always. I am planning on planting tete-a-tete this yr as I prefer their compact neatness . I was in my local park on Saturday and I caught a whiff of my favourite flower scent … hyacinth… so may plant some of them too .
How lovely and green you garden looks already and I love your Daffs. The front is comming along too , even if it is not as you wanted it. Just think, it is not yet as you want it, next year it will be stunning. Hope you will have nice easter days and take care. 🙋🏼♀️🌷
Many good ideas for me here. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hi, love your videos.
Would you consider making a video on underplanting e.g. trees, shrubs etc.?
Hello Alexandre, I am from France, and in the same zone as you. This is the second year that I have planted my daffodils and its the second year that they have failed to bloom, the buds just dry out. Would you please have an explication as to why they might not bloom please? Mxx
We've got a long expanse of property along our dirt road. The slope is just too steep to mow, it requires a weed-eater. Eventually, I'd like to plant some big, low maintenance perennials but cost is a consideration. I've transplanted tons of natives from roadway spots that threatened their survival. It's definitely a work in progress, I'm hoping there will be lots of aster, goldenrod, liatris, asclepias, monarda etc this year. It's a 5 year plan unless I win the Lottery 😂
You have a wonderful channel and I love how you explain things and show examples.
Always love your channel that is so beautifully done , Thank you for all the beautiful photos you always share, and of course your Cottage gardening so pretty and of course all the gardening tips thank you so much hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy
This is a great organizing ideas thank you so much for sharing them with us I am not a brunette
Daffodils. New world to me! Looks like a great time.
Lots of great information about harvesting your daffodils!
Thank you so much. You captivate the listener.
I hope this project will continue.
I don't like AstroTurf, I don't think we need more plastic in the world. We should not encourage use of AstroTurf ever!
Hello Alexandra I'm fairly new to your channel but I do love it! I wanted to ask you about growing Ivy up trees. I notice in this video your Silver Birch has some Ivy on it, and yet I recall people with good intentions in the past tripping through hedgerows and woodlands, snipping the rising growth of Ivy to prevent it choking a tree. Can you give some tips about this and if it's really harmful to trees? I love your channel and I love how timely many of the videos are as the seasons change. Thanks for such great advice!
I have a question for you. Last year I dug up some daffodils after they finished flowering and I kept the leaves attached to the bulbs, what I found was when I planted them back into the ground again, the leaves turned completely yellow after 2 or 3 days, where as the rest of the daffodils (that I didn't dig up) stayed green for many weeks. Was this normal? I think they did flower again this year, but I couldn't remember exactly which where the ones I dug up.
Last year I was so fed up with the sight of dying daffodil leaves that I pulled all the bulbs out of the ground in the fall—or so I thought. This spring we've had a bumper crop of daffodils. I'm so glad I missed so many of them during my fall "harvest"; I sure would have missed those lovely flowers this spring.