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| Bulb layering, April 2012, Lesley Beeton |
So, it's back to the garden, again, for my beautiful post this week. I guess I'm really enjoying the garden this year because it was sadly neglected last year when Mom was ill.
I don't quite know how I got myself organised, but somehow I did. I planted two lovely blue glazed terracotta pots with bulb layering. My husband mocked me. He said it would never work, but I knew better. I had watched Alan Titchmarsh and read Gardener's World. Both had explained how it could be done. A (not so) quick trip to the garden centre for bulbs and potting soil, and they were all planted up on a warm afternoon in late October. I left them on the summerhouse deck until January, when the first crocus started showing. Followed by the fragrant narcissus tete-a-tete, the rather grand tulip orange emperor and now the stunning tulip yellow flame.
These hurriedly planted pots have kept the colour at our front door, throughout the winter. Welcoming visitors with their sunny faces, and drawing admiring glances from neighbours. Bulb layering - you're beautiful. I'm going to do it all again in the autumn.
So, I'm linking up with Jenny at Cheetahs In My Shoes and You're Beautiful. Pop over there to see what Jenny and the Cheetah Keeper have been up to this week. And have a look at the other blogs linked up too.
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| Early crocus, bulb layering, February 2012 |
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| Daffodils, bulb layering, March 2012 |
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| Tulip, close up, bulb layering, April 2012 |
