"Trevor" wrote in message
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I planted dozens of Narcissus 'Rijnveld's Early Sensation in the autumn of
2005 around our village monument. They made a splendid show in Feb/March
2006. This year virtually 99% of them haven't come up. I dug up the bulbs
and an odd one has a pathetic green shoot of a few inches and that's it.


Given that the bulbs are still there ...

wild guess

Given that narcissi need a cold stimulus to flower indoors, maybe the
mild weather has meant that they haven't recieved sufficient cold
stimulus to initiate flowering outside either, in that particular situation.
So many hours at x degrees c. This might be localised within feet of
the actual location they're planted in. Depending on the wind direction
those at the foot of the hedge may have been be in a frost\cold pocket
and so got the necessary lower temperatures

/wild guess


michael adams

....

What could have gone wrong? Would it be a mistake to plant more in the
same
place?

I planted them at the same time along the foot of a Lonicera nitida hedge
a
few metres away , and they are flowering OK.