This is very frustrating. But still we have spring and summer ahead of us, with many more flowers to admire! :-)

I've never grown daffodils so let me ask: if you cut them - before they froze, of course - to take home as cut flowers - would you harm or lose the bulbs?

tell me about it. my lone crocus thought life was simply too painful and keeled over. my daffodils lay flat against the ground. my tulips' leaves are sagging (and they were just about to bloom!) oh cruel, cruel April!

I worry about tulips ever reblooming (next year I mean) if they get killed to the ground. Daffs and crocuses have their center of growth underground and can re-send new leaves. Tulips can only grow from the same bulb once - they have to make a new bulb to regrow next year, and if they haven't had a chance to even bloom yet, I wonder if they can even send out new leaves - I know when you CUT them down, they don't.

Reply to Anna Beth: You can pick the blossom, but leave the leaves until they turn yellow and die naturally. After blooming, the leaves "feed" the bulb for next year.