Can anyone advise me?

[earlgrey]

Just got really into gardening, and I've got some plants that would look really nice around the pond. The daffodil stuff is still there, minus the daffodils, but how do you plant stuff without disturbing your daffs for the following year?

I remember about 15 years ago, out on the razz with some work colleagues,(God knows why we were talking about gardening, it must have become very late!) someone saying you ought to plait them. Is that a load of old rubbish? TIA

life is too short to plait daffs - my neighbour folds them over and puts an elastic band round them - I chop em.

Thanks, FB! Choppin' em works ok, then?

dont tie them, stops them drawing the nutrients for next years flowers.... dont chop them till the leaves are mainly yellow as this does the same... bulbs need to reabsorb nutrients etc from their leaves in order to flowers well the following year, just deadhead them then cut them when leaves are yellow.

I rip mine out every year LOL
Plant them again end of summer.
they have come back year after year despite my neglectful care of them I'm sorry but to dedicate that much ground to a flower that only lives 3 weeks
Pah

Spinach does sound much more knowledgable than me, but like Piffle's me daffs bloom every year regardless of their mistreatment.

Piffle, do you mean you buy new bulbs each autumn? Or just go for it, rip out the leaves and hope it works?

In a fit of peak last night I plaited them, can I just chop them off to make room instead?

no I dig out the entire bulb underground and overlpant with whichever plants I feel like that year!
Store the bulbs in paper bag, in dark cool garage.