My daffodils are not blooming- The leaves are up but no buds or blooms?

These have only been planted for about 3 years - I have only gotten blooms in year 1 - last year I thought because of the lack of rain they did not bloom but now this year we have had rain and sun but still not blooms.

My daffodils are not blooming- The leaves are up but no buds or blooms?
My johnquils are the same way. They just last week started getting the full light of the sun, and should start to bloom by Easter weekend (this weekend). Mine have been planted about 9 years, and they do this late thing every year. When autumn arrives, you might want to relocate them to a more southern -eastern location.
Reply:Don't give yourself a hard time for this, as the bulb producers give their plants almost near perfect conditions, in order to fatten the bulbs up, ready to produce flowers. Then they fall into our hands...



Daffodils benefit from being divided every 3 or 4 years, as they readily divide, and become overcrowded.



Do this this year, after feeding them whilst growing, especially if you have a fertilizer with a high Potassium - K, within its mix. Or potentially add a top dressing of something like Sulphate of Potash, Potassium Sulphate. Fertilizers sold will generally show their N:P:K ratio, on their containers.



Potassium is the mineral needed by plants in order to form flowers, and will often nudge plants that haven't flowered into forming them - bulbs or otherwise.



After feeding them, leave them to die down naturally, divide them and replant, or else allow them to dry off, keeping them somewhere safe and dry, like a garden shed, where rodents etc. won't eat them.



Add some humous, like garden compost, and potentially a good all round plant fertliser into their hole, before planting too. Give them a good site, with reasonable sunlight, as this will help strengthem them, when they grow next year. With a bit of luck, you could get flowers next year, but it may need them to grow with less competition for a season or two before they're back in flower.



Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob
Reply:Did you cut the leaves off after they bloomed last time? If you did not wait until they yellowed, they may not have gotten enough energy to bloom.
Reply:may need fertilizer, or just not ready to bloom. they will have flags for a time before stalk with bloom comes.