Spring flowers ?

I plan to plant Daffodils...in a 6ftx3ft bed in a part of my garden.


When these have finished should I lift the bulbs as I want to plant some more flowers for summer .. or can I leave them in the soil and plant the other flowers around them. Any advice please new to gardening... and what summer flowers should I go for?

Spring flowers ?
You can go either way. We have some we take out and some we leave in, depending on what we are doing with the beds that they are planted in.





Summer flowers can be whatever you like. One choice is to plant other perennials that have different blooming periods in the same bed as the daffodils. You can also plant some annuals such as begonias or impatiens.





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Reply:Ashes from your charcoal grill or sand spread around or in your flower bed will keep slugs away.
Reply:It is less work if you can plant over them and only take the dead leaves off once they have become brown and withered.





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Reply:Daffs dont like to sit in wet soil, make sure you have a nice sunny position, you can put a bit of grit in each hole as you plant them for drainage.After they finish flowering don't chop the leaves down as they will carry on photosynthesising bringing food and energy back down into the bulb which is the storage organ, leave them in the soil. There are so many flowering plants to choose from it just depends on your taste. You could have something evergreen that flowers in summer like Azalea. Or perennials like Aquilegia is very pretty. Poppy, Primula, Geranium Delphinium, Roses. Good luck. x
Reply:leave bulbs in ground they will multi ply over years to come,petunias,bizzy lizzies,geraniums,fushias,begonias beware of marigolds slugs and snails love them,still put slug pellets round plants ,not bulbs tho.hope you have a stunning display next year
Reply:Leave them in but don't cut the foliage down until 6 weeks after the flowers finish. If you snap off the flowers as they die, you will get better daffs next year because they won't use energy making seeds. My favourite easy plants are any hardy geranium and penstemons, they are slugproof and can take any amount of accidental abuse. Geraniums flower mostly in June and penstemons mostly August and later. Also astrantias are good and easy, but take a couple of years to make a nice looking plant. All these will come back every year with no more work than a sprinkling of fertiliser or a shovelful of manure
Reply:Try planting the Daffodils at the back of the bed in a 1' strip.


Then leave them in when replanting in the spring. You can tie the dying foliage in a knot, and mulch over to hide. You can cut the foliage off, but the Daffodils will not reproduce unless you leave the foliage on.


We put tulips under our flowers, because they won't come back here in Ga anyway.
Reply:Leave them and plant other flowers around them. Theyir greenery will eventually die back and then you can cut it off.





What else you plant depends on where you are and what type of look you are going for.
Reply:The daffs will be well over by the time you come to plant with summer bedding plants, plant spring flowering around them.


If you want to you can lift them, clean them off, dry and store them until re planting, a lot of work when not needed.
Reply:I was told to always let the Daffodils leaves to die naturally to allow the nutrients back into the bulb, and by the time you come to do the summer bedding (presuming you are using Annuals) they will be then well rotted enough to take the dead leaves off, or remove the whole bulb and store in dark dry place in paper bags and then plant the bedding, but leaving the bulbs in the ground I think is an easier and better option in my opinion, as they multiply and get more flowers each year if left undisturbed,hope this helps