When can I safely cut down the foliage from various bulbs?

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CrabgrassCentrl New Milford, CT Jun 07, 2009

I know I have to leave foliage for awhile after they've stopped flowering, but I'm tired of looking at it. Plus for my daffodils, I have to move them so I want to hit them while I can still find them, but not too early so they won't come back next year. I also have grape hyacinth foliage that I'd love to remove so I can plant something else in that space. I'm in CT, zone 5-6. (I swear my house is on the line when I look at zone maps.) Help please?

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Jun 07, 2009

When the foliage is yellowish green, you can safely cut it off, or lift the bulbs. As to your daffodils, when I need to move or divide bulbs, I just put a good sprinkling of gravel or some other marking ground cover/mulch where they are, and when I can safely move them , there is no problem finding the area where the bulbs are.
Try "overplanting" for your grape hyacinths. No need to move or remove them--just put in a shallow rooted plant right over the hyacinths (I like zinnias, but there are a lot of possibilities) which will hide the yellowing foliage and fill in the void.
Bulbs are nice, but they can present a problem in the flower bed. Hiding the yellowing foliage with other plants is the best solution I have found.

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