Bulbs: Ready to bloom!, 1 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
GOOD question!

Last year I placed a large Angel's Trumpet in the middle and filled the rest of the center with chartreuse sweet potato, but the rabbits had a field day at my sweet potato 'buffet'! The Angel's Trumpet had been in full sun on the patio the previous summer (photo below) and was WAY too big to put back on the patio (I let it go dormant in the basement over the winter and brought it back out to plant in the garden in May)

The sweet potato vines got chewed up by rabbits and there was too much shade in this bed for the Angel's Trumpet to bloom properly, so I considered that experiment a failure. This bed only gets 2-3 hours of sun in the summer. The Red Canada Cherry trees (on the east side of the bed, along a creek) block the morning sun and the huge oak trees in my yard shade it from about noon on.

I'm contemplating forming a knot garden with Winter Gem boxwood and then planting clusters of begonias in the openings in the knot - then this fall I would plant tulips in the holes.

I'm open to suggestions!