Lasagne planting

[TheEvilPea]

I've gone a bit mad with bulbs this year. 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?

@Robin233

Let's see what happens

What kind of bulbs are they?

@WellTidy

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.

That sounds beautiful. My anemones are still flowering now! Maybe because of the strange weather this year.

@mildlymiffed

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

Eeek! Exciting.

So far I've done two beds and maybe 10 pots. Have one more bed and another 10 or so pots to go.

I've done this before and it really is lovely. You need to be quite careful about heights though - one time I had mini narcissus, and the tulip foliage dwarfed them before they had finished flowering, which was a shame.

The narcissi most often used for growing in water/pebbles are narcissi grandiflora 'paperwhite', OP. I'm not sure if they have special treatment like hyacinths for early blooming - they can be grown in water too.

I usually do a bowlful, forgot to get any this year.

Thanks @ErrolTheDragon! I think I have enough on my plate this year with what I've already planned 😂 but I may try that next year!

@TheEvilPea
Narcissus but I've seen it done with tulips and hyacinths.
So maybe possible with most bulbs if you know what you're doing - not saying I do.

Thanks! Really enjoying experimenting with all of this. I hope at least some of it flowers or I'll be very disappointed! 😆

Gorgeous thread! I've just had 165 bulbs from Sarah Raven delivered. I'm a complete novice, but my MIL knows her stuff and is advising me. Am I right that I should wait until it is a bit colder before planting them?

@Alilacat I think daffodils are generally best planted asap, but others can be done later? Am also a novice though so hopefully somebody else can advise!

I do this most years with any spare pots, this year I've gone mad with jewel coloured tulips (mostly oranges, rich pinks and dark ones like 'queen of the night') planted with narcissi. I top them with pansies, cyclamen and primrose/polyanthus for a bit of instant colour.

The mice always get my crocus wherever I plant them, wee horrors, you'll see a wee hole and a pile of earth by the pot, grrrr.

I also have some lilies from Sarah Raven to go in a big pot along with posh tulips. I got the bulbs from Morrisons, Sarah R, Peter nyssen, and local nurseries this year. I stll have lots to plant but DP has given me his grotty cold so I'm having a day off(? hardly as I'm still cooking and cleaning!), despite the only dry day in ages. Hopefully will get it finished later next week.

It's such fun as everything starts to come up and flower.

I did a few layered tubs last year, worked really well.

This year I've left them but also have a new tub with tulip bulbs underneath for spring, a patio rose flowering now and petunias around it.

I've got a load more bulbs and some indoor cyclamen, so I might get another tub, plant the bulbs and put the cyclamen over the top. Thyme makes quite a good green cover for in between bulbs coming up and will have small flowers at some point.

I've got paper whites to grown indoors too.

Having said all that, it's actually still too warm to plant bulbs I think. Should be after frost starts, hopefully early Nov.

I may transplant some of my innumerable self-seeded forget-me-nots onto my blue and white pot.

Oooh I love forget me nots! Send some to me please. 😁

Ooh following, I really want to do this!

I want to do bulbs underneath some winter foliage in a window box. I’m worried that the light will be blocked out by the foliage though. What do you think? I’m very new to gardening

Try it and see...if there are some gaps, and the eventual height of the flowers will be clear of the foliage I'd have thought it would be fine. After all, bulbs can send their shoots up through several inches of soil so I don't see why leaves would stop them.

@ErrolTheDragon

Try it and see...if there are some gaps, and the eventual height of the flowers will be clear of the foliage I'd have thought it would be fine. After all, bulbs can send their shoots up through several inches of soil so I don't see why leaves would stop them.

I have one like that, not sure what the leafy thing is but planted summer last year, leafy thing is light green, looks pretty. Had tulips, pansies and anemones come up through in spring, and now the green leafy thing is back because it's an autumn thingy.

Any chance of a photo of the light green leafy autumn thingy?

Honoured!

Here you go, it was this collection but I may have split it up a bit and mixed the pots around due to different delivery times of various things and me getting over excited and buying loads at once.

www.sarahraven.com/products/mahogany-crimson-and-lime-pot-collection

Ah, heuchera - that's a good idea.

[quote VanGoghsDog]Here you go, it was this collection but I may have split it up a bit and mixed the pots around due to different delivery times of various things and me getting over excited and buying loads at once.

www.sarahraven.com/products/mahogany-crimson-and-lime-pot-collection[/quote]
This looks so pretty!

Aargh no! You made me look at Farmer Gracy and now I have ordered even mire bulbs to go with the hundreds I have ready to plant when it gets colder. The prices are good at FG; I love Sarah Raven but so expensive. Use her catalogue for ideas.

I've done this with plastic pots that fit inside some nice pots - so I can rotate them easily with summer bedding and the spring bulbs can get planted out or see if they come up again.

I'm planning on doing a really big trough this year as have a new extension and the kitchen window looks out on to a blank wall at the moment.

@Pottedpalm

Aargh no! You made me look at Farmer Gracy and now I have ordered even mire bulbs to go with the hundreds I have ready to plant when it gets colder. The prices are good at FG; I love Sarah Raven but so expensive. Use her catalogue for ideas.

Sorry!!