On 09/05/2014 13:45, Andrew May wrote:
On 09/05/2014 13:32, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 09/05/2014 12:26, Andrew May wrote:

I should have been a sack of just the yellow ones - but I wouldn't
guarantee it.

Was the sack sealed when you bought it, or was it open? If open and
bought from a garden centre, it's not unusual for people (particularly
of the young variety...), to pick up bulbs and put them back in the
wrong place!

Nope. It was a complete and unopened sack of traditional yellow daffodil
bulbs from a reputable garden centre.

If you buy enough then you invariably get the odd volunteer. My last big
batch of red tulips had a couple of black Queen of the Night in.

(and they certainly didn't come from reversion)

I suspect what has happened is that the yellow ones are now too crowded
to flower and the more nearly species ones that have always been there
have taken over since they tolerate the conditions better.

In 10 years you will certainly have some seedlings grown up to flowering
size unless you religiously dead head them all. I think the yellow ones
all come pretty much to type though but smaller flowers.

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Martin Brown