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I’m going to plant my bulbs earlier this year, to avoid disturbing any hibernating creatures in colder weather. I've just bought 20 winter aconites, 20 Nectaroscordum siculum, and the Gardeners’ World magazine offers: 100 free alliums and 160

into food to help the bulb flower the following year.I've planted most of my bulbs in pots for now, as my 'garden' is currently a series of concrete slabs. I plan to lift the slabs and replant the bulbs after they've flowered. But, seeing as I've run out

cover before the other plants grow into the gaps. My frogs benefit, as they prefer sheltered ‘corridors’ of dense foliage to move undetected around the garden. Newly planted pots of spring bulbs get the same sprinkling of clover – I like to think its

.I recently discovered what happens to spent municipal plantings in my area. Tucked behind an advertising billboard, I found an enormous pile of discarded daffodils bulbs left by parks gardeners, it was taller than me. The bulbs had been dumped