anyone else got bulbs which have grown but not flowered yet?

[Escallonia]

everywhere round here there are daffodils and hyacinths blooming, except in my garden! only moved here in the summer so don't know how the sun catches the garden yet, but it is pretty shady - north facing but gets east and west sun (well it did in the summer!).

will they come out? do they need direct sunlight - they get light, just not sunshine direct.

They may either need the light, because they will be later in the shade, or last year somebody cut them down immediately after they had flowered and gave them no time to store enough energy to make this years flower.

Only time will tell but I should think they are just late.

thanks - I planted them so hoping they are just late! have moved one pot to the front step to see if a bit of direct sunshine will prompt them.

I have a load of hyacinths in pots which just will not bloody flower. I'm getting quite obsessed by them. The couple I brought inside have flowered, so it's not like they're incapable.

None of my bulbs in pots are flowering yet, but they were planted late because of the snow and frost and so I'm expecting them to be a bit slow.

Providing bulbs are planted early enough to make a good root system they will flower eventually but it will be dependent on some extent to light and warmth levels.
I've got some tulips which I couldn't plant until last month as the ground was frozen here from late November to Mid Feb, I don't expect them to flower until next year but I needed to plant them or the bulbs would probably have rotted.

Just on this subject, I have some daffodils of a particular variety planted in 2 spots in my border. One of the bunches has flowers about to open, and the other bunch just has leaves and is definitely not going to flower this year. If I fertilise them will they make a comeback next year?

Sorry, just to add, I planted these 2 or 3 years ago and both bunches have both flowered each year so far.

Fertiliser will help bulbs, however it seems odd that one lot is flowering and the other isn't. Usually daffs continue to flower providing their tops aren't cut off too early.