bunching and bowing

Those who say not to play the Martha Stewart game of making decorative
little packages out of the fading foliage of daffodils etc. are
absolutely right.  If you can't wait for them to brown, at least wait
until they are laying down.  
  At the same time I have learned that daffodils and tulips can take a
great deal of abuse.  A year ago last spring, my son, who lives in
Pennsylvania, decided that he was sick of bulbs because of the
browning off period so as soon as his bulbs finished blooming in May,
he ripped them out and threw them on the compost pile.  I came to
visit him the last week of August, and discovered the bulbs in the
compost pile.  I rescued as many as I could (about 60) and stuck them
in a plastic supermarket bag.  When I returned to Ohio, I threw the
bag in the garage and promptly forgot all about it.  In late October,
I discovered them by accident in the garage and figured "what the
heck..I'll plant them and if they don't bloom, they'll be compost in
the soil".  This spring, every single one of them came up and bloomed
their little hearts out.  
   I don't know what the moral of the story is but I still wouldn't
cut back the foliage too soon.  All the ones I rescued still had their
foliage attached.  He had just grabbed the leaves and yanked the bulbs
up with the leaves still attached.
Jeanne




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