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Plan Now for Spring Blooms
By Amanda Bashore of Your Home Supply
As you walk outside amidst the cooling air and changing leaves with the holidays looming on the horizon, the last thing on your mind is likely to be the spring season of next year – and why should it be, when there are so many lovely things about the autumn to enjoy? Well, we certainly do not want you to ignore what charms the fall season brings, but if you are looking forward to a great flower garden in the upcoming spring, now is the time to plan for them! Planting bulbs in the fall is a great way to enjoy a beautiful blooming garden in the following spring and summer without putting in a ton of effort. There are several varieties of flowers that do well when planted in the fall in order to bloom in the spring, including early spring bloomers like the crocus, winter aconite, and the snowdrop, and others that bloom later in the spring, like daffodils, tulips and anemones. Here is where the “without putting in a ton of effort” part comes in. If you plan your flowerbeds and plant your bulbs right in the fall, you can have continuous blooming from early spring straight on through summer without having to plant more flowers even one more time. The trick to making this happen is sometimes called “layering” in gardening parlance, and it basically involves choosing bulbs with bloom times that vary, planting them all at the same time in the fall, and sitting back to enjoy the fruits of your labor for two whole seasons come spring and summer. Think back to that quick list above, and choose a couple of your favorites from the early spring bloomers and the mid-spring bloomers. For our purposes, let’s use the winter aconite from the early spring category, and the tulips and daffodils from the mid-spring category (and please bear in mind that these are not the only options available to you – consult your seed catalogs to discover many, many more bulbs). All that is left is to choose some bulbs that will bloom in the summer – try some summer blooming iris varieties or alliums. Once you have chosen your three groups of bulbs, plot out the layering effect. The early spring bloomers category will, obviously, pop up in early spring and show first. When these begin to die off, it will be mid-spring and therefore time for the mid-spring bloomers to begin to show their faces to the world, replacing the fading colors of the early spring flowers. And at the beginning of the summer? Yep, you guessed it – the summer bloomers will pop up to replace the mid-spring flowers, ensuring you have a continuous flower display in your garden for the whole spring and summer with just one concerted effort in the fall to get your bulbs in the ground! It certainly does not get much easier than that, so consider planning and planting now for great spring (and summer) blooms to come.
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Where would strawberry plants fit into a layering plan? Love your selection of floor registers on your website.
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