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Complete novice gardener, can you please identify this flower for me?

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twinsetandpearls · 18/04/2009 15:00

It is on my profile.

Also what do you do to daffodils once they have flowered?

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Sam100 · 18/04/2009 15:05

I'm afraid I don't know what the flower is but it is very pretty!

I was taught to tie down the daffs after they had flowered to get goodness back into the bulbs. That is bend over stalks and leaves kind of in half and tie a bit of string round. I have no idea if this is what you are supposed to do but does not seem to kill them off.

PheasantPlucker · 18/04/2009 15:11

dh says possibly some kind of euphorbia (my spelling, not his!). (He has a botany degree)

twinsetandpearls · 18/04/2009 15:12

Thanks Sam. I have about a dozen of those flowers in a patch with some large ornamanetal type thistles. I cant remember seeing the red ones there last summer but the cows do like to have a munch there so they may have ate them.

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twinsetandpearls · 18/04/2009 15:12

I will listen to a man with a botany degree off to google,

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PheasantPlucker · 18/04/2009 15:13

Let me know if you find it....

twinsetandpearls · 18/04/2009 15:15

they do look a bit like this Euphorbia, Spurge

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PheasantPlucker · 18/04/2009 15:20

Oh I'll have to tell him, he will be pleased to have succeeded on Mumsnet!!!!

He's a Landscape Architect, and a big fan of all things horticultural! Are you going to kep them?

twinsetandpearls · 18/04/2009 15:42

yes as long as they dont get eaten.

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