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WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO BURY YOUR TREASURES THIS AUTUMN?
Lesley always refers to spring flowering bulbs like crocus, daffodils and tulips as ‘buried treasure’. You bury them in September and then in the spring up pop your little treasures to delight and surprise you with their flowers!
Lesley has a large bed full of picking flowers in the potager and this display of tulips was planted five years ago and reliably reappears each spring. The great thing about the picking bed is it isn’t part of the garden display so we can pick as much as we like without spoiling the displays in our borders.‘life’ back now!
Where are you going to bury your choice of Treasures this autumn?
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Tulips in the picking garden
Many varieties of tulip don’t reliably flower again year after year but there are some tall ones that are great for picking and come back every year. The orange Ballerina is very striking, also try the green/white Spring Green, the purple Queen of the Night and Black Parrot with feathery edges to the dark petals, only showing green buds in the main picture.
Tulip pots on steps & Recipe of bulbs
Tulip ballerina in vase
If you are going to bury your bulbs in a border why not try some Spring flowering bulbs to brighten up the border before later plants take over the starring role. Here in the St John’s Avenue bed tulips Spring Green and Queen of the Night are taking over from the Winter Flowering Heather before the Catmint
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Bulbs in St John’s Avenue bed
You can’t beat the surprise of your buried treasure performing in pots on your patio or on the steps to the front door for every visitor to enjoy. Use a container compost and plant in different layers with the biggest bulbs lowest down. Here we have an early white Chionodoxa, Pink Hyacinths performing now, white Daffodil Thalia coming along and a pink Tulip to come later. Move your pots around as the flowers fade and new treasures appear in another pot.
AUTUMN IS NATURE’S TIME
22 BLACK BITCH ISSUE 92 AUGUST 2022
Dougal Philip
and Lesley Watson New Hopetoun Gardens
FOR PLANTING AND BURYING
NEXT SPRING’S TREASURES
COME ALONG NOW AND BE TEMPTED BY OUR HUGE SELECTION OF BULBS!