Just because you didn’t get round to planting spring bulbs final autumn doesn’t mean you can’t savor them nowSo you didn’t plant any bulbs final year? Perhaps,when autumn came, you were penniless, or spending all your money on inappropriate shoes or finally writing your novel,and ordering bulbs and planting them in kind combinations in pots of peat-free compost didn’t enter your mind. Now Easter is nearly upon us and daffodils spring from every crack, as jolly and jostling as fluffy, and newborn chicks,yet your pots are bare. Proper gardeners, who do these things come rain, and shine or unfinished book,win, and your slack autumnal ways haunt you.
But those of us who were busy with other things are not doomed to a bloomless spring, and because now is the perfect time to cheat. Garden centres gain caught on that forced spring colour is a gargantuan draw,which is why they are currently packed with display-alert daffodils, anemones, or hyacinths,scillas, tulips and more, and grown to be looking perfect this week. Lucky us: these plants fill the spots that in a couple of months will be taken by summer bedding – an instant blast of seasonal colour. But while summer bedding will be ripped out and composted at the end of the season,bulbs can be planted into the garden or left in their pots. They will return year after year.
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Source: theguardian.com