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/ winter (assuming its not freezing cold or very wet). Ive got about 60 bulbs in all. :-/ Yes, that'll be fine. Sounds like a lot of trouble to go to-I would be more inclined to store the bulbs in a cool dry place for a few weeks and then plant in the soil

to imagine now Thanks nutcutlet I will let you know my flower count tomorrow - sure the bulbs are up early or they were just late last year because of the cold last winter This mild weather has them up early but if we get a cold spell they'll slow down. I

gardeners, or buy them cheaply from open gardens. Japanese anemones are an example. There are bulbs that flower in summer, as well as spring bulbs, and these will usually increase every yeat, such as crocosmias. I grew buddleia from seed, too. They root

been busy on the Canterbury Bells in my garden in the odd few minutes when it is not sheeting with rain! I like the sound of this. I would underplant with bulbs for early spring interest. Your bees would also appreciate a winter flowering plant like

such as hellebores will add winter interest with foliage and flowers in late winter and early spring and there's a whole host of bulbs for spring colour too starting with winter aconites and snowdrops through crocuses and narcissus which can all be naturalised

, so I keep the agapanthus pots outside to enjoy for as long as possible before carrying to the winter shelter of my unheated greenhouse.Many of the tender bulbs I grow outside in pots form attractive seed heads, and patient gardeners may be tempted

, over the winter it has grown again and there seems to be more bulbs there then when I cleared it last year! I have included a couple of pictures linked below.... http://i33.tinypic.com/24ms26q.jpg http://i36.tinypic.com/6jpnw6.jpg Any help with how

I've always been a great fan of bulbs, in all their shapes and sizes. I couldn't get through the winter without snowdrops, and the prospect of daffodils, heralding spring. But right now, in (a rather cold and wet) May, alliums are centre stage

with the smaller kinds. could someone tell me how to plant snowdrops,as i have brought some bulbs last week and my neighbour told me thats its impossible to get them to flower and if they were to flower, the following years they would not flower they would only

outside and see them covered in sparkly frost. Bulb wise, I had hyacinths starting to flower last month and now there are crocuses too. I live in Cambridge, and my garden is not that sheltered. Winter has been very very strange. well the whole year, really