If your garden in spring has the welcome sight of loud and colourful tulips brightening the place up, then it can feel like an exciting place to be again after the inevitable dull, wet moments of winter. For me, the main feeling is relief. Relief that I actually remembered to plant some. Bulb planting in autumn is one of those jobs that we can have in our minds to do, then before you know it it’s a last minute scramble to find the last bag in the shop, hidden away in a corner to make way for inflatable snowmen and reindeer stuffed to the gunnels with LEDs.
Even when I’m organised, each spring I always wish I’d grown more. Perhaps there is no other group of plants that look as good in repetition as spring bulbs. They are the garden’s very own Pringles. Once you get a taste for them, you can never seem to have enough…
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Hand-picked treasures
When it comes to buying bulbs, nothing beats selecting the bulbs by hand, which means buying them from a nursery or garden centre that sells them loose rather than in bags. It’s a bit like buying oranges. If I had a pound for every net of oranges I’ve casually chucked in my trolley, only to find when I get home that some are mushy, I’d probably have enough to buy an orangery of my own. So it is with bulbs. It pays to make sure that any soft bulbs that have a bit of ‘give’ in them, don’t end up in your garden. Choose the biggest, firmest bulbs and they will do so much of the hard work for you.
Making a layered pot of spring bulbs
In a small space, ‘layering up’ your pots by planting three layers of bulbs in the same container gives the chance to still enjoy lots
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