Bulbs: Overwintering bulbs in pots?, 1 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
For this large limestone urn (42" diameter) I plant 5 smaller pots (15" diameter X 6" deep) with tulips. In March I pull them out of the ground and arrange them in the large urn and fill in around them with mulch or potting soil and top off with a layer of mulch.

Some years I have also planted narcissus or daffodils in individual peat pots and forced them in the ground with my pots of tulips. I place the narcissus or daffodils in the spaces between the pots of tulips to 'fill in'.

I use 3" peat pots with one bulb per pot and set 24 of them in one of the plastic trays that flats of annuals come in, then I sink the whole tray of pots in the ground, same as the larger pots. Lining the hole with mulch makes it easier to pull them up in the spring, since the peat pots allow the roots to grow out through the sides and bottom.