How to make a bulb lasagne

To have beautiful flowery spring pots, you need to layering bulbs in what the Dutch call

Bulbs lasagne.

 

You have to plant the bulbs one on top of another.

The largest and latest flowering bulbs go in deepest, moving to the smallest and earliest in the top layer. 

Example: Bulb lasagna from Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinths and Crocus

Top layer - early Spring flowers (Crocus)

Middle layer - mid Spring flowers (Daffodils, Hyacinths)

Bottom layer - late Spring flowers (Tulips)

Place gravel on the bottom to avoid blocking the drain of the pot with soil.

Mixture used: 3 multi-purpose compost, 1 potting soil, 1 grit or sand (I prefer grit but the sand is also very good). The grit or sand is mandatory to ensure aeration of the soil.

Bottom layer - late Spring flowers (Tulips 20 cm deep)

Middle layer - mid Spring flowers (Daffodils and Hyacinths)

If the pot it's not too tall, you can plant them together.

If the pot allow,s you can plant Hyacinths on top of the Daffodils.

Top layer - early Spring flowers (Crocus 10 cm deep)

The emergent shoots of the lower layer bulbs just bend round anything they hit sitting over their heads and keep on growing. 

Last fall (2019) I made bulb lasagne in the ground. 

The problem was that after the tulip flowers withered, you can't cut their leaves because you have to keep them in the ground until the leaves go dry. 

This makes part of the garden to look bad, without flowers, with some dried leaves.

This year I made bulb lasagne only in pots and containers:

Yellow and Orange (Orca) Tulips, Daffodils, Hyacinths with Crocus on top.

Daffodils, Hyacinths with Crocus on top.

Red dwarf Tulips with Hyacinths on top.

Lilies with Daffodils on top.

I also planted pansies in the top so that the pots would not be empty over the winter.

It is easier to take care of after there are no more flowers, the pot can move to  hidden places until the leaves can be cut.

We'll see what comes out in the spring 😊

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