Narcissus - a symbol of spring and freshness. White and yellow flowers adorn the gardens shortly after the snow melts completely and come the long-awaited spring days.
Why do not bloom daffodils
Grow daffodils simple: they are unpretentious bulbous perennials that are resistant to late frosts, which often make themselves felt in the beginning of spring.
However, it happens that lovers of daffodils notice that the plants are not released in the spring flower. The main reason for this situation is most often associated with errors in care. To find the cause of this behavior daffodils, should be familiar with the rules of their cultivation and care, affecting flowering.
The soil
Daffodils are not too picky about soil, but often sandy soils lead to freezing of bulbs, especially during the cold and a long spring. I am very sensitive to frost terry varieties of daffodils. Also for planting of daffodils is not suitable airtight heavy soil with a long stagnation of the water.
Delayed transplantation or close planting
The main method of reproduction of daffodils - bulbous. Each clove has strong roots branched type. Not rassazhennaya time a group of bulbs for a few seasons strongly twist around each other's back, in whereby bulbs loses nutrients, and oxygen necessary for complete development of moisture. Form a green mass of leaves Narcissus is possible, but for flowering potential is not enough.
Power plant
To please others daffodils delicate flowering, it is recommended to conduct an annual fertilizing land with nitrogen fertilizers. The main thing - do not overdo it, because the excess nitrogen stimulates excessive growth of only leaves. You can also use the phosphate and potash fertilizers, which should be accompanied by a loosening of earth and abundant watering. Good flowering daffodils and respond to the introduction into the soil of chalk and dolomite.
Watering
Daffodils like watering even after flowering and during the withering leaves. It was during this period laid the new bulbs and there is beneficial nutrients drain into adult and emerging bulbs. Watering daffodils recommended until mid-July, after which colors go into a resting phase.
Trim leaves
Some novice growers rush to trim the leaves of the plant as soon as the flower loses its appeal. Doing this can not be - it leaves helps the plant to bloom the following year. They can be carefully removed only after the natural yellowing and fading.
sunlight
Daffodils bloom longer if you do not get enough sunlight. In a shady location they will be given only to the abundant foliage.
Also narcissus bulb, diseased or pest will not be able to give a beautiful flower spike.