How to care for this bed?

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Hi all,

We recently moved and the garden is lovely. The previous owners obviously (to me) really loved gardening.

I particularly love this bed, it's got things popping up all the time! I'd love to know how to nurture it? Will everything die away so I have to replant things in Autumn etc?

I'd really appreciate some tips!

I’d live with it for a year to see what grows. It looks like some evergreens for winter structure, and lots of spring bulbs which will come back each year. You might find some perennial plants pop up in the next few weeks to give summer interest.

Take photos every two weeks... this will give you a record of whats is already there.. dont depend on your memory! It will help you lear what they are called too
The small pink tulips with the yellow centres are botanical tulips.. possibly Lilac Wonder... and usually live quite a long time.. the other tulips which havent opened yet last 2 maybe 3 years but will exhaust themselves and need replaced.
Lots of surprises to come by the look of it.. treasures I am sure.
Enjoy!

...just to say...you can give them a weekly feed of liquid fertiliser (tomato feed will do.. stick to the dosage on the container) from now until the leaves start to turn ... dont cut back any leaves.. even when the flowers are over... they need to wither and die by themselves... this is when they re-charge the bulb for next year..

Living with it is good advice. It looks like you’ve got some species tulips which should come back year on year, the other tulips I think you’ve got there tend to come through less well every year so this autumn you may want to add some more bulbs. Some tete a tete or minow narcissus would look lovely in this bed and daffodils are very good at returning year after year.

Leave all the bulbs to die down, including the leaves. This is how the bulb makes energy to flower next year. You can cut off the flower heads if they starts to make seed pods.

neaten the edge where it meets the grass and dig out the dandelions before they make seed heads.

Put some small bark chips down on the bare soil.

wait for a year to see what comes up.

post back here with photos of any plants you need identified . Do this before pulling it up unless you are sure it’s a week.

Sundaefraise and Justbetweenus are giving good advice.. there are many scented narcissi too.. see Peter Nyssen catalogue online in the Autumn.

Thank you all, that's great!!