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Instant Garden
We are teased by creation of a high maintenance garden when low maintenance is more logical and certainly more practical.
However, we’ve learned that one or three carefully sited big pots filled with spring bulbs and summer annuals can go a long way toward providing the impression that a whole garden is filled with bloom (and are a lot less effort than a big bed).
An explosion of tulips, with 20-30 bulbs crammed into one oversized pot works really well for filling a space and can bloom above rabbits’ reach. The inconvenience is that the tulips do better in winter if the pot is buried to the tulips’ soil level ( soil temperature is buffered), but it’s an effort to bury large pots. Huge pots are more handsome and buffer root temperatures better than small pots but it may be possible to dig in multiple small lightweight pots and transplant their contents within a large pot in early April when the bulbs a just starting to grow.
Instant Garden
We are teased by creation of a high maintenance garden when low maintenance is more logical and certainly more practical.
However, we’ve learned that one or three carefully sited big pots filled with spring bulbs and summer annuals can go a long way toward providing the impression that a whole garden is filled with bloom (and are a lot less effort than a big bed).
An explosion of tulips, with 20-30 bulbs crammed into one oversized pot works really well for filling a space and can bloom above rabbits’ reach. The inconvenience is that the tulips do better in winter if the pot is buried to the tulips’ soil level ( soil temperature is buffered), but it’s an effort to bury large pots. Huge pots are more handsome and buffer root temperatures better than small pots but it may be possible to dig in multiple small lightweight pots and transplant their contents within a large pot in early April when the bulbs a just starting to grow.