Why haven't my flowers bloomed this year?

Legacy_user

I don't have alot of flowers around the garden, but this year we had pleanty of leaf but nothing else

In sping had a few tulips and daffodils, we had pleanty of leaf but not 1 flower in site.

At the min I have a few sunflowers, they are about 4-5ft high, again with pleanty of leaf but not a flower in sight, infact they have been like this for the past 5-6 weeks, this time last year they where up bloomed and had died by this stage.

The only thing I did different this year was apply lawn feed in the spring, I suppose our summer this year has been awful.

Anyone any ideas as to why I have had a garden full of non bloomers this year?

peter_the_piper

Did you put lawn feed on the flower bed? If so thats the source of the problem. Lawn feed if mainly a nitrogen feed to make the grass grow and stay green, you don't want grass to flower. A water with a balanced feed like Miracle Grow will possibly have time to allow some flowers this year. If not make sure the flowers are fed next year as per the instructions on the packet.
By the way, down here the weather has been quite reasonable and certainly nothing to complain about, now if only I had some time off to enjoy it.

valk_scot

Yes, lawn feed is leaf feed ie nitrogen based.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I have'nt had that many flowers up to now although strangely enough the bedding plants I put in are all starting to flourish now,when they should be starting to die off a bit.
They did'nt seem to budge for weeks.
I've just found it a funny year all round for my garden.
Nothing's grown true to form for some reason although I've done everything the same.