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Rescuing Daffodils
If you are beating the bulldozers,
the easiest way to lift the bulbs is to dig them up with a good amount of
dirt and place them directly into a gallon pot and pot up, or put the daffodils
and dirt into a temporary plastic bag to pot up when you get home. When you
get home, put the potted daffodils into the shade. At home, keep watered and
shaded, and just let them do their thing. After the foliage goes down (turns
yellow), place the pots in the garage and dry them out for about three weeks.
If you do not want to add to your garden’s weed population, dump the pots into a box or wheelbarrow. Gently wash the bulbs, dry them quickly and replant immediately. If you don’t care about the dirt, you can plant them directly into your garden. If you do this, you need to make sure the bulbs aren’t crowded. After planting the bulbs, water them in well. Your planting location should have full sun or as close to it as you can get.
The FDS has identified the common species, wild hybrid and old historic daffodils that the early settlers to south Georgia and north Florida left behind. Most of these daffodils at old homesteads and along roadsides do not need “rescuing” unless they are in harm’s way – annual mowing, invasion of deep shade or aggressive plants, change in the water table or the bulldozers. Many bulbs have been in the ground for a hundred years. Even with careful rescuing, most of these old daffodils will take years to acclimate to their new surroundings.