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Old 28-06-2009, 10:04 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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David in Normandy writes
Sacha wrote:
If there's plenty of space, grow them 'wild' under trees and let the
grass and leaves of the dying daffs take over for a few weeks.


Our daffs are under trees and a few in one of the lawns. They look
lovely there. Much better than those regimented into clumps / rows in
formal borders. Same with crocus bulbs. I love those, and planted lots
in random places in the daff lawn.

Ours are everywhere. There's wild daffs and tenby daffs in the lawn,
then big blousy things under the pergola where the apple trees are, so
we have a double border of daffs, then when that's over, a tunnel of
apple blossom. Then they're along the base of the hedge, and scattered
around in the borders, and they keep appearing in the pots. I'm now
focusing on daffodils not more than about 8 inches high, and as early
flowering as possible (and the small ones don't have the same huge
wilting leaves). They make me really happy in spring, in those dreary
days of March when the greyness of winter has gone on just a bit too
long.

Memories of wild daffodils - along stream banks in Gloucestershire, and
a prehistoric fortification in Portugal, now just a barren shingle bank
appearing out of the lush undergrowth, and in spring a several hundred
yard long mass of petticoat-hoop daffodils.
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Kay