Bulbs: Newbie with bulbs looking for help, 1 by DitchLily206

DitchLily206 wrote:
Hi, newbie at bulbs here. I have never posted here before, although I am quite active on the daylily forum.

I just received an order of 150 bulbs from Brent and Becky's Bulbs. It was their Southern Garden Combination for $60. The catalog says "This collection will be filled with bulbs that don't need as much of a winter in order to bloom and don't seem to mind the heat and humidity of our southern summers!"

These were the bulbs that arrived:

10 N. bulbocodium conspicuus
10 N. 'Tete-a-Tete'
10 T. 'Lady Jane'
10 T. sylvestris
50 Anemone coronaris De Caen
10 Chiono forbesii 'Pink Giant'
50 Ipheion uniflorum

The plan is to plant them in front of and among some new daylily beds I put in this spring to give spring color. The beds base soil is heavy AL clay amended with soil conditioner (mostly ground pine bark) and top soil. However, the soil is still rather heavy and holds LOTS of moisture, something that has been really evident with all the rain we had this spring and summer. (In fact, we just got 4" of rain yesterday!) All the reading I have done says that most bulbs like "well-drained" soil, so any suggestions on what else I can add to the soil? There is not a lot of room to dig between the daylilies. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.

None of them look like they are very tall, so I am thinking that they should be planted mostly in front of the daylilies although I am open to other sugestions.

For those interested, here is a link to the thread where I talk about making the beds: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/979370/

Here is a picture of the collection: