some questions on bulbs

Hi all,

Can anyone advise on the following:

1) though bulb species that flower in autumn and winter

2) early flowering daffodils, which species should i pick to have a good display early on in the new year?

I am trying to plan bulb arrangement for my newly refurbished garden.

regards

 

Depends whether you want pure yellow daffodils or a mixture of daffs and narcissi........I can recommend 'Carlton' as a good yellow daffodil or King Alfred for a good strong head. Narcissi, my favourites are the multi headed white or yellow 'Cheerfulness' and single headed 'Actea' or 'Pheasant Eye' both similiar if you cannot get one get the other. Usually White back with deep orangey/red tiny trumpet. As I say it depends really whether you want pure yellow daffodils or a mixture of both.

 

Carlton Daffs.King Alfred Daffs
Cheerfulness comes in yellow and white.
























Pheasant Eye
Hope these come out ok.

 

brilliant looking bulbs.

can iyou tell me how you plant these, i mean how much space do you leave between one bulb and the next to produce a thick layer of daffs?

 

Don't forget February Gold daffs which are early and very nice. I plant them close together so they come up in clumps. I thought Pheasant's Eye were rather late ones!

 

Many years ago I got a bulb-planter - the thing that removes a "core" of soil / lawn and you put one bulb at the bottom of the hole. Anyways, it was extremely tedious.

I took a different approach (albeit that this is for naturalising in grass). I removed a square of lawn the same width / length as the width of the spade - i.e. Square. I put our bulbs at the bottom - one at each corner - and it worked just fine.

 

Hi,

If you take a look at Parkers bulbs` website -there is a store in Flixton-you should find hundreds of options there. And the planting depends on which look you are going for-I like a natural and almost tumbly look to gardens and to help acheive this I plant in clumps and drifts, so I put some much closer than is sometimes advised, some of the smaller ones are only an inch or so apart. I don`t really get any problems with this method, I pull mine after a few seasons anyway and replant with something else.

Another good site is broadleigh bulbs as it gives so much information on each flower-admittedly more info on summer flowerers than winter really but worth a look.