Bulbsare a great decoration for garden beds in the spring. However, their flowers fade quickly, and drying shoots, leaves and stems remain in the bedding.What to plant next to the bulbsso that the bed would still sparkle with colorful flowers? Here are the best plants todecorate your flowerbed when the bulbs bloom !
What to plant next to the onion flowers?Fig. depositphotos.com
Spring has come to our gardens for good. This most beautiful season of the year charmed all the owners of plots and gardens with the wonderful colors of the bulbs.Daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, scrubs and cannions are in full bloom, and checkers and desert plants are already lining up in the line. This 'colorful fair' lasts a short time, about a month, but for many gardeners it is still the most beautiful time of the year.
Bulbs have one big disadvantage- after flowering, leaves are not very decorative in the bed. We cannot remove them under any circumstances, because photosynthesis is still going on in them. Thanks to this, the bulbs can get stronger and bloom beautifully again next year.
In May, some of the leaves are already half-dried, and in Junethe onion spots are empty . In order to prevent such a situation, it is necessary to consider now what to plant the flower beds, so that there is no break in flowering and that it lasts until autumn frosts.
In my garden I try toplant early spring flowering bulbs in the vicinity of perennialsTulips that need to be dug up annually I place at such a distance from the root ball of other plants that when digging up the bulbs in June, I do not damage the neighboring plants species.On the other hand, I plant botanical tulips and narcissi between clumps of colorful thyme, thyme, binder or garden cranberry. After two or three years, when the turf perennials cover the entire surface of the flowerbed, the onion perennials overgrow such a 'rug', giving the impression that they grew directly from the tufts of ground cover species.
Colorful cranberry leaves fill the empty spaces on the bed.Fig. depositphotos.com
Another way tomask the drying leaves of narcissus or tulips that are not very pleasing to the eyeis to plant perennials with magnificent leaves near them, which will successfully cover the empty bulb spots. It should be remembered here to choose species that have poorly developed leaves during the flowering of bulbs or are just sprouting them, and they grow strongly only when the leaves of tulips or daffodils begin to dry out.
Daylilies, cranberries, tongues, long-lasting lupins and garden lupins are perfect for this task, as they tightly cover every free space with leaves.
A beautiful and proven pair are narcissi and perennial linen with azure, small, but captivating flowers. Delicate linen leaves perfectly harmonize with the narrow and long leaves of narcissus, and when they dry, the perennial is already in full bloom, effectively distracting attention with its beautiful flowers.
In the case ofbulbs growing for several years on one site , sowing seeds of annual species is a good way to quickly fill the places left after their drying aboveground parts. Remember that we cannot do it too early, because the seedlings will not have enough light, which will inhibit their development, and in extreme cases most of the plants may dry out.
The problem may arise when we grow a desert house in our garden, often called 'Cleopatra's Needle'. Well, in the case of this species , the leaves start to dry up when it is in full flower , and after that, the plant very quickly goes into dormancy until next spring.In this situation, the best solution to fill the empty space seems to be to plant seedlings of annual plants with a weak root system, so that when removing them from the bed in autumn, you do not accidentally damage the root of the desert house.
Pustynnik in the bed with other plantsFig. Donkum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
If we want a quick effect, and there is not enough money for a grown seedling, we can as well sow the seeds of Californian Echolica, nasturtium, bitter garments or maciejka in mid-April, which will delight us with its intoxicating scent during flowering.
In May, we can plant seedlings of flower beds between the bulb species ending their vegetation. The best for this purpose are: mexican sage, shiny sage, marigolds (narrow-leaved and scattered) and Cape lobelia. During this period, the seedlings of the annuals are still small and will not shade the growing bulbous ones that are still assimilating.
This method works well whenbulbs are placed quite rarely in the bed , because otherwise strongly developed roots of annuals may entangle the bulbs and there is a risk that during the autumn plucking of the frozen remnants of sage and marigold we will also remove small-boule species from the discount.
