Beginner Gardening: It's December - let's celebrate our gardens , 1 by stormyla

stormyla wrote:
Carolyn, That Elodie Lily is very pretty. Is that an Asiatic? Is it more pink or peach?

2000 of those little mixed blue bulbs didn't even put a dent in underplanting all of the tulips and daffs. But it will put spots of color through out the beds. I will have to keep adding more each year.

SallyG gave me the idea of planting 1 or 2 Muscari in with every tulip or daff planting to be able to use the reemerged fall foliage as a marker for the other bulbs. I plan on planting muscari in the spring too, so I can cover a lot of the bulbs that have lost their markers.

Ge, The anemones are very nice too. I had some come up for the first time this past spring. I'm waiting to see how they look this spring before adding more. I was able to buy white ones individually, but the other colors all came in mixes. Mixes don't appeal to me, but I tried a few.

That tulip bed is 150 x 30'. It takes a lot of bulbs to fill it. This year I added bulbs on the outside of the tree line and mixed in a lot of red & white striped tulips through out the bed and added more daffs to prolong their season.