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Alan Titchmarsh’s May Tip to Keep Daffodils Blooming Next Year

The TV gardener points to post-flowering care as the key to next spring’s display.

Overview

  • UK outlets, which published Thursday, relayed his YouTube advice with Waitrose & Partners as the daffodil season winds down.
  • He urges waiting six weeks after flowering before removing spent blooms to let leaves keep working.
  • After that wait, gardeners can cut foliage to soil level to tidy beds without sapping the bulbs.
  • He recommends one or two handfuls of blood, fish and bone around the plants, an organic feed that supplies nitrogen, phosphate and potash.
  • He says removing seed heads, allowing leaves to photosynthesise, and feeding now helps store energy and can guarantee flowers next year, with blind bulbs best lifted and replanted in autumn.