Can I plant on top of spring bulbs.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

I have an L shaped garden. So for most of the time I can’t see one half of it.

So I have decided to plant my spring flowers on the section I can see during the colder months. So I can see them while eating breakfast etc.

I’m talking tulips , snowdrops etc.

But when the spring flowers have gone. Can I plant other plants above them? So I can have flowers in these planters for the rest of the year.
Or maybe add some bedding annual
plants every year or will that interfere with the bulbs.
Basically can I use it as a dual space. Or will I kill off the spring bulbs.

Have you already planted the bulbs? If so, the snowdrops are over and the tulips are on their way? If you are really worried about disturbing the bulbs you could throw some seeds over the bed, this won't disturb the bulbs and will bloom in summer. But you could also plant summer flowering things without worrying about the bulbs, it's not a problem!

If you haven't planted the bulbs yet then you will be doing that next autumn. In the meantime you can plant anything you like for the summer and then put the bulbs in later.

Shouldn’t be a problem, many herbaceous plants have a dormant season overwinter when you can’t really see any growth at all so you you will really enjoy the bulbs, as the bulbs finish the herbaceous stuff comes into growth and takes over. What you do need to be wary of is cutting back the leaves of the bulbs as the flowers go over, the bulbs need the leaves to feed the bulb for the following years flowers so irritating as it can be don’t cut them off, or tie them up , they will eventually die back. If I don’t want the bulbs to set seed then I take off the flower stalk very low down as I find a sticking up flower stalk more annoying than flopped over leaves. Eventually you will find that you dig up dormant bulbs every time you put a new plant in, just pop them back in remembering to put them at a depth at least twice the height of the bulb.

And as a previous poster said, most annual plants you grow from seed or plug plants have a shallow root system, and a limited life span, so they won’t bother bulbs at all.

This is really helpful. I haven’t planted anything yet. Just trying to mark out where everything is going to go. And was worried I would sit and eat breakfast during the summer and look at empty beds.
But I will just plant some on top and be careful. Thanks for the help !