On 09/05/2014 11:47, Andrew May wrote:
About ten years ago when relaying a section of lawn I planted a whole
sack of yellow daffodils in the hope that they would naturalise. The
first couple of years they provided a glorious display but over the
years less and less have flowered.

Then this year a lot more flowered but they were white with small orange
centres. Is this normal? Is there anything that I can do (or shoud have
done) to maintain a full display of the big yellows daffs that I planted?

Andrew

Just as a follow-up to this. I had the opportunity last weekend to talk
to someone from the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens at their
Festival of Plants.

Their theory is that the original yellow daffodils were hybrids and have
seeded but also died back - possibly due to the wet conditions. The
seeds have grown as white daffodils, that being the dominant strain,
they have come up blind for several years and have now matured enough to
produce flowers. Certainly seems to fit the facts.

Andrew