Bulbs: This thread is for you Dahlianut!, 1 by dmj1218

dmj1218 wrote:
no weeds today--sorry

Actually that was where one of those horrid, invasive vitex trees had been for 15 years--after Ike, and with the back fence down, I dug it out and planted daff's. Had I bothered to mulch back there--no weeds would be.

Here's another idea to keep the weeds at bay--underplant with alyssum. A peach tree used to be here, it snapped during Ike (the only tree I lost) so I hacked it out and planted bulbs from the Cincinnati Daff Society. I bought every tall and extra-early blooming variety they had and planted them in this long bed 3 landscape timbers high--they should shake and bake real well there this summer, just like they like it. Hopefully, they will actually bloom before the alyssum goes completely to seed--but I did plant the seeds on Halloween and they've been blooming solid since December.

This one is Home Fires--hopefully it'll bloom in April.