Daffodils

Daffodil Day began in Australia in 1986. It is a merchandise based fundraiser for cancer research, education and patient support. Daffodil Day is the 4th Friday in August. The target for 2013 is $8.25 million. The daffodil was choses as a symbol of hope, rebirth and new beginnings. To the Cancer Council, it represents new hope for a cancer-free future.

When the daffodil flower has died, you will notice that the area where flower has attached to the stem swells larger and larger. It is producing seeds.

If you plant the seeds, it can take 3-4 years for the seeds to develop into bulbs which produce the daffodil plants. Bulbs are necessary to store food for the next year's stem, leaves, and flower.

Bulbs can multiply underground, be separated, and you can use the new bulb to start a daffodil plant in a new location.

Yes. In fact, they can actually choke out and kill other Daffodils if they become too numerously dense in one small location.

They also return each year, usually early spring up until the mid summer.

Flowers, were discovered in the 1800's way back then, and probably in the times of the dinosaurs, when the scientists found these weird things that were attached to a natural plant called grass and stems that were and still are bright and colorful, also beautiful and they are just plants that people use today to make their yard look more attractive or for decorations or just pretty much anything and that is what a flower is.

Tulips stems should be cut on a bias. To make them stay fresher for longer, cut them, then roll each stem in newspaper for 2 hours, then cut again.

Well, a daisy is usually yellow. So the most populest colour to us is the petal colour which is most likely, yellow. But to bees it would be a orange type of colour which is the middle, the honey.

According to legend, St. David (the patron saint of Wales) was getting ready for a battle that took place in a leek field. He told his Britons to wear a leek in their caps to reduce casualties from "friendly fire", since their enemy, the Saxons, looked like their brothers. This produced a defining victory for the Britons. Today, on March 1st, Welsh people wear the leeks in remembrance. Some will wear the daffodil, since the common word for leek and daffodil is the same. Daffodil has become the National Flower of Wales.
According to legend, St. David (the patron saint of Wales) was getting ready for a battle that took place in a leek field. He told his Britons to wear a leek in their caps to reduce casualties from "friendly fire", since their enemy, the Saxons, looked like their brothers. This produced a defining victory for the Britons. Today, on March 1st, Welsh people wear the leeks in remembrance. Some will wear the daffodil, since the common word for leek and daffodil is the same. Daffodil has become the National Flower of Wales.

Generally daffodil flowers don't get pollinated, and rarely will you find daffodils from seeds coming up in a garden, unless they have purposely been sown there. If you do want to play around with a daffodil seed (it takes 5-7 years before you'll see the flower), the way daffodil flowers are pollinated is by bees or other flying insects and humans purposely applying pollen to the stigma.

It should take approximately 2 years for the daffodils to begin sprouting petals, and about 9 years for the daffodils to sprout fully. In order to grow, the daffodils should be maintained with low level nitrogen plant food and watered in partly shaded conditions.

Daffodils grow in the spring from a bulb. They do have seeds, but it takes a good five years to get a flower from a daffodil seed, so most people plant the bulbs. They need to be in a well drained area, in sun or partial shade, and the bulb can adapt to most soils. Once the temperature is right, the bulb will send up its one cotyledon and from that leaves will make their way up and out to the light to soak up energy and make food for the bulb and expectant flowers. They last a full month or so, depending on the variety. When the flowers are finished, you leave the leaves in place for about a month. After they have started turning yellow, all of the food that they can make has been sent to the bulb. They they disappear until the next spring. Each year the bulb will multipy to produce new plants. They are very simple plants to have and they need very little tending.

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The daffodil gets its food directly and indirectly through photosynthesis. When the plant has leaves, it is making its food through the interaction between chlorophyll in its leaves and sunlight. It uses this food during the flowering process and stores some of the food in the bulb underground. The following year, the bulb will use this food to send new shoots up through the soil to develop a new green plant.

Currently the research shows that the only way to have a purple daffodil is through genetic manipulation. A purple gene would have to be isolated from another flower type and trasferred into the daffodil genome. However, if you take a white daffodil and place it in a vase of dark purple colored water, then you can turn that one white daffodil a purple color. It won't be a perfect purple flower, but it's as close as you'll get.

Daffodils are natives of southern Spain and Portugal , North Africa and West Asia. They could be found in meadows and woods. Today most of the daffodils are developed, produced and exported from Holland, and the United Kingdom is the leader in using and exporting cut daffodil flowers. They will grow in any temperate climate.

The scientific name of the wild daffodil is Narcissus pseudo-narcissus. With the explosion of cultivars, there may be as many as 200 different species of what people commonly call a daffodil. The word "narcissus" comes from a Greek word meaning "numbness" referring to the alkaloids in the plant which cause a sedative effect. Of course, there is the Greek myth of the beautiful Narkissos, who fell in love with his own reflection and was turned into the flower "narcissus". The first reference to "daffodil" is from the 1590s.

Normally you leave daffodils in the ground from year to year. If the clump is getting too big, and there are not as many blooms as expected, then the clump will need to be split. You can do this when the plant is flowering, but you shouldn't expect them to bloom the next year. For blooms it is best to wait until the flowers are gone and the leaves are beginning to turn yellow. At that point the leaves have sent all the energy to the bulb that they are going to, you can separate the bulbs and replant.

It is not necessary to cut back the daffodil leaves. When they become brown they will detach from the bulb and become leaf litter for the earthworms and other decomposers to utilize. However some gardeners want to use the space for other plants, and thus will want the leaves gone.

After the daffodil flowers have faded, the plant needs to restore the nutrients that were used, so it can bloom the next year. The leaves must remain as stay green for this to happen. It takes about 4 weeks. When the leaves begin to turn yellow, you can cut the leaves off at ground level.

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Daffodils are a bulb and bulbs are good at storing their own water reserves. You shouldn't over water them. Water your little pot with about 1/2 cup of water every 4 or 5 days (or whenever the soil goes dry to the touch). Bulbs are also almost completely oblivious to having more soil around them... they can grow out of practically no soil so repotting isn't entirely necessary and certainly not for this season.

Keep them near a window and cool. Don't loose sight of the fact that daffodils are an early spring flower and do not bloom for very long (maybe 3 weeks at most). The cooler you can keep them the longer they will last. 45-60F (8-14C) is pretty ideal temperatures. Repot them to be outside in a container or garden and overplant them with something else for the summer leaving the bulbs dormant in the soil. They'll pop up year after year in the early spring.

Once the flower dries up and gets crusty on the top of the stem, "dead-head" the stems by snapping the dead flowers off... this will stop the bulb from transferring nutrients and energy into the seed-head and will keep that energy in the bulb where it will go into splitting the bulb into multiple bulbs (and you'll see more rapid multiplication).

Daffodils can be found in what is called the "temperate zone". They need a period of cold for the flowers to bloom properly. They do well in the USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 3-9. They can be growing wild in a meadow, pasture or lakeside, or they can be a cultivated ornamental type grown in gardens both rural and urban.

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Yes. All parts of the daffodil plant are poisonous or toxic to horses. This plant contains alkaloids which affect the nervous system. High amounts can be fatal.

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