Replanmt hyacinth and daffodils

Lora73

We are having some construction done and I need to move these plants, they are currently in bloom.  Can anyone offer me any advice on doing this?

TIA

j+k

Time to make a container garden.  Get a bunch of empty pots, dig up the flowers, bulb and all - trying to contain as much dirt around them as possible -and put them in flower pots.  You can just leave them outside in a safe area where they will get the typical rain and sun.  Cut back foliage like you normally would when they finish blooming.  When construction is done, replant.

Honestly tho... I'd just get new bulbs in the fall and replant, but it's worth a shot trying to save them.  You've got nothing to lose trying.

TarponMonoxide

Cut 'em and make a bouquet and in the fall, plant more.:)

kyfirewife

If you want to move them, then just replant them in their new location. I did this last year with our daffodils. They were kinda straggly last year, but this year are back to blooming beautifully.

If you eventually are putting them back in the same place, or can't put them in their new location just yet, then put them in pots until you can.

Just know that anytime you move a plant it tends to "struggle" for the first year. So it might be a year or so before the blooms are back to normal.

GL!

Lora73

Thank you ladies.  I should have mentioned that my mother planted the flowers from many years of Easter flowers and she passed in October of 2008 and I want to try to save what I can.  They are coming tomorrow so I have plenty of places for them to move them.  They will replant what I want so that is good to know.