We need to know which Daphne you have as the different species have different habits and requirements. Do you have D mezereum, D bholua, D odora or what?

As a general rule you don't need to fertilise shrubs unless there is a specific identified problem. Fertilising an unhealthy shrub with a general purpose product probably won't help it.

Dear victoriajeanne Oregon,
If you're growing _Daphne odora_, the winter daphne, you're probably aware that it is a temperamental plant, known to keel over dead, at almost any time, for no apparent reason. If your plant suffered winter injury, it is probably contemplating death and, thus, may well be on the verge of keeling over dead. If I were you, I would hold off on fertilizing the plant, especially this late in the growing season. A sudden flush of succulent growth would be susceptible to frost.

If _Daphne odora_ is sited well, it thrives on neglect. We have five daphnes in different locations. Each plant is growing in well-drained, fertile soil, in semi-shade. Four are happy. The fifth one, _Daphne odora alba_, is, however, unhappy and is trying to decide whether to live or to die. I'm tempted to go ahead and put it out of its misery but am going to give it a little more time to make its own life or death decision. That's what I'd recommend as far as your daphne is concerned. Leave it alone for awhile and let it to make its own life or death decision. If it keels over, don't be surprised. It can be replaced. But remember, winter daphne is like Marlene Dietrich in wanting to be left alone.

Thank you, i seem to always pick the flowers and the plants that are the hardest to grow, lol

Sigh. How can I be such an idiot? It is Greta Garbo, not Marlene Dietrich, who wanted to be left alone; and I quote: "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference." My ignorance notwithstanding, that is winter daphne's mantra.