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Lasagne planting

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 11:43

I've gone a bit mad with bulbs this year. Smile Looking forward to them coming up in the spring will get me through the winter I think. 🌷🌹🌺🌸🌼

I am a bit of a novice so it's all quite an experiement! I wondered if anybody else is doing the same and would like to join a thread so that we can share some photos when the flowers arrive?

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 16:19

@HuckleberryJam

Just ordered some white ranunculus from Farmer gracy. It's free postage til Sunday and discounted
Huckleberry don't tempt me to look at their website again! 😂🙈
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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 17:20

@bigbluebus

I've bought lots of bulbs but my summer plants are still flowering in my pots! I do, however, want to lasagne plant a new pot to give to a friend for her birthday next week but as I've never done this before I've been putting it off. What sort of compost have you used?
This is such a lovely idea! I might do the same for my friend whose birthday is in Jan, then the crocuses will start to appear soon afterwards.
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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 20:20

@bigbluebus I've ordered some more to make a pot for my friend! Thank you for the idea. I had no idea what to get for her birthday this year. On the lookout now for a nice terracotta planter for them to go in.

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MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 14/10/2021 20:27

I did lasagne planting for the first time last year. I am a notoriously slapdash gardener, but it was easy and worked really well. I used all tulips, with different layers, depending on flowering time.

Burgerqueenbee · 14/10/2021 20:49

Ha I thought lasagne planting was going to be tomato plants, courgettes, peppers, and onions Grin
Have had a Google and may now be itching to get on the actual lasagne planting bandwagon, my neighbour gave me some bulbs for an anniversary gift so have a starting point.

Gladioli23 · 14/10/2021 21:02

I have some planting (not in pots) that I think probably should be classed as lasagne planting - crocuses first, then grape hyacinths mixed with loads of tulips, them they go over and up come some irises instead.

I've also gone mad and bought (cheaply) but think maybe another hundred bulbs, and then have a load of divided up summer irises to add to the collection.

I bought the ones I've got from Wilko and B and M. My bulbs from Asda and Wilko were very successful last year, yougarden was another cheap punt but less so. Might try to do some lasagne planting in the pots I did summer bulbs in this year - I had some freesias that I reckon I could plant around.

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 21:07

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

I did lasagne planting for the first time last year. I am a notoriously slapdash gardener, but it was easy and worked really well. I used all tulips, with different layers, depending on flowering time.
That's good to hear as I am also slapdash with things! Like with cooking - I love it but I'm a "chuck stuff in and see what happens" person; not a baker who can be bothered to measure how much of what is added when. 😆 Fingers crossed that at least some of my bulbs survive my approach!
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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 21:09

@Burgerqueenbee

Ha I thought lasagne planting was going to be tomato plants, courgettes, peppers, and onions Grin Have had a Google and may now be itching to get on the actual lasagne planting bandwagon, my neighbour gave me some bulbs for an anniversary gift so have a starting point.
Ha! I wonder if that would work, to actually plant a lasagne?! 🤣 Maybe some durum wheat also. And I guess we'd need a cow for some milk?

Oooh lovely, what did your neighbour give to you?

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 21:12

@Gladioli23

I have some planting (not in pots) that I think probably should be classed as lasagne planting - crocuses first, then grape hyacinths mixed with loads of tulips, them they go over and up come some irises instead.

I've also gone mad and bought (cheaply) but think maybe another hundred bulbs, and then have a load of divided up summer irises to add to the collection.

I bought the ones I've got from Wilko and B and M. My bulbs from Asda and Wilko were very successful last year, yougarden was another cheap punt but less so. Might try to do some lasagne planting in the pots I did summer bulbs in this year - I had some freesias that I reckon I could plant around.

That sounds lovely! I've done some of mine in beds also. I'm even more nervous how that will work out than the pots but you sound like you know what you're doing! Smile

I had forgotten fresias. So wonderful and fragrant also. I think I tried to plant some last year but not in the right place so none came up. 😕

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Gladioli23 · 14/10/2021 21:20

I definitely don't know what I'm doing! It's really just been luck. I read the back of the bulb packets and hope for the best! I figure with cheap bulbs, I can spend maybe a tenner on a hundred, and then even if only 70% come up, that becomes a pretty lovely collection over a few years.

The problem I have is stopping myself from planting random mixtures everywhere. In the front I have a collection of all the same colours and it looks fantastic. The back is a total mishmash.

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 21:24

Totally agree, I have been trying to think about colours - whether in beds or pots - and make sure each area of the garden has a colour scheme not just randomness!

I can't wait to see everybody's photos! I hope you will all be here in the spring to share what you've done, be it one pot or a huge garden, it doesn't matter. Flowers are so beautiful. 🌷

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 21:31

@afaloren

I’ve done a few tubs like this! Layers of tulips, daffs and crocus with cyclamen on top to enjoy for now 🌸
Oh lovely idea to put the cyclamen in, too, that you can plant shallowly and then not just a bare pot until spring. Great idea!
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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 21:32

@Dizzywizz

This is great, Opened the thread read thinking it would be a typo of some kind! I’m definitely going to give this a go
Yay! The bees will be very happy with us all I hope. 🐝
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ErrolTheDragon · 14/10/2021 21:37

I do lasagne pots. Usually tulips at the bottom, then daffs, then muscari and iris reticulata and crocus at the top. The 'cheese' on top is usually violas but I've got small cyclamen on the ones I did at the weekend. I was relying on the local garden centre which always used to have a good selection but it changed hands this year and didn't have what I really wanted so I've just ordered some more online ... white tulips, Thalia narcissus and crocus, blue iris reticulata and muscari.

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 22:27

That sounds so pretty. Blue and/ or white crocuses too, to match the other flowers?

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ErrolTheDragon · 14/10/2021 22:30

Just white crocuses - I don't think I've ever seen a true blue crocus. (I'm a bit pedantic re purples and lilacs versus blue.Grin)

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TheEvilPea · 14/10/2021 22:47

I totally get that! I hate it when purple flowers are described as blue. Not that there's anything wrong with purple, but don't call it blue if it isn't! I don't get it. ConfusedHmm

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WellTidy · 14/10/2021 23:05

I bought a load of bulbs from farmer Gracy back in May, which I had Very Firm Ideas about what I wanted from my bulbs. About a fortnight ago, they arrived. I seem to have ordered about 200 - I have no idea how I thought I would have enough pots for all of them, so I am going to have to do lasagne planting. I’m very excited about it though, they could look absolutely amazing.

I bought loads of ranunculus from farmer Gracy a few years ago and they’ve been brilliant. Very reliable indeed. I am very pleased.

Robin233 · 15/10/2021 01:05

I did this about 2 weeks ago.
Tulips, daffodils, crocus , snowdrops with viola in the top.
First time so fingers crossed
Also set some bulbs in a large glass vase on a 3" bed of pebbles -!water topped so roots are wet

Mymapuddlington · 15/10/2021 01:07

I thought you were planting ingredients for lasagne lol

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TheEvilPea · 15/10/2021 10:03

@WellTidy

I bought a load of bulbs from farmer Gracy back in May, which I had Very Firm Ideas about what I wanted from my bulbs. About a fortnight ago, they arrived. I seem to have ordered about 200 - I have no idea how I thought I would have enough pots for all of them, so I am going to have to do lasagne planting. I’m very excited about it though, they could look absolutely amazing.

I bought loads of ranunculus from farmer Gracy a few years ago and they’ve been brilliant. Very reliable indeed. I am very pleased.

Oh wow, the rununculus came back? I didn't think they were perennial! I have planted a few white and red ones this year for the first time.
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TheEvilPea · 15/10/2021 10:05

@Robin233

I did this about 2 weeks ago. Tulips, daffodils, crocus , snowdrops with viola in the top. First time so fingers crossed Also set some bulbs in a large glass vase on a 3" bed of pebbles -!water topped so roots are wet
That's clever, I didn't know you could do that!
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mildlymiffed · 15/10/2021 10:24

Just had an email that my bulbs are being delivered today! So I'm going to aim to plant on Sunday! Whoooop! ☺️

WellTidy · 15/10/2021 10:46

Yes - ranunculus come back! As do anemones. You could buy both and then you’ll have bulbs that are in flower throughout May and maybe a little into June. I have a very narrow bed at the edge of my patio, and I have (in order of flowering) hellebores (the flower will fade on them and the foliage will be there all year round), snowdrops, crocus, tete a tete daffodils, ranunculus, anemones and then I have super low maintenance ground cover perennial geraniums which go through to September.

Robin233 · 15/10/2021 11:14

Let's see what happens

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