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Old 13-05-2003, 05:20 PM
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Default cut back daffodils or let them rot?

Let the foliage and flower stems stay until they turn yellow by themselves.

Next years flowers depend on this years foliage to store energy to develop
mature bulbs.

If you remove the foliage prematurely, the bulbs will not reach flowering
size.


clipster wrote in message
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Question whether it is better to let daffs rot after cutting off the spent
flowers or just simply cutting back the entire plant? I have been dead
heading daffs for years and am not impressed with any spectacular regrowth
in the following year. Would simply cutting them back harm them?

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