Collection and Processing of Wild Daffs

I don't really want you to see how manky my spare room was last spring, anyway I suppose it is necessary.

As you can see; I have divided the plants into two piles, those with flowers/seed heads and those without. Daffs seem to grow better and are more likely to flower on the first year after planting, if they are dried out. But if they have a flower or developing seed head, then I think that they should have the chance to set those seeds, so I plant these ones immediately and spread the others out on newspaper to dry out.

I start to collect Wild Daffodils just as the flowers begin to fade and 'Daffodil collecting season' goes on until they have all disappeared completely, back into the ground & I can no longer see them.


Here Sally (cat) guards them fiercely.

All my methods are derived from either common horticultural practice and/or experimentation.

It is possible that some time in the past some creature might have existed, which had formed a symbiotic relationship with our Wild Daffs and aided them in their seed dispersal. As it is they produce many seeds, which germinate very easily, but like little heavy marbles, these little black bead-like balls drop to the ground, rarely more than a metre away from the mother plant. The result of this of course being that you end up with vast colonies of them in one or two parts of a woods and none anywhere Else.
Of course, this is where I come in.