Bulbs: Can anyone suggest something which makes a nice boarded?, 1 by DaleTheGardener

DaleTheGardener wrote:
If you plant both the Lycoris and small daylily the Lycoris will overgrow the daylily in Oct/Nov, when things cool down. There might be a couple weeks that it will look messy but that passes quickly. When daylily starts looking ragged I use a long handle gas hedge trimmer to cut back and then rake up the leaves, it is usually not a long process. I usually top the bed off with compost and mulch at that time too. Then the Lycoris leaves pop up and look good all winter, the leaves go dormant in late spring and are easy to remove by raking them out. The only plant that I know that has no maintenance is Liriope and they are a few types that have nice flowers, but, they are boring most of the time.

There is another grassy bulb called Chinese Chives, with white flowers in summer http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/78502/ It is evergreen here, but, you get some cold weather so it may be semi dormant in the short days of winter in your area. Many folks don't like them because they reseed. I find they aren't as smelly as Society Garlic. In my garden they don't reseed themselves as much as other 'weeds' do. I have a lot more problems with Oxalis and some of the lawn weeds.