Here are a few tricks for hiding the evidence:

Yellowing daffodil foliage can be ugly, but cutting it off steals energy from next year’s blooms. And it gives you the chance to mix it up with different colours every year. Using annuals instead of perennials allows for continuous color and control over how much of the foliage is covered immediately. I'll definitely give the geranium a try. Using metal snips, she cut the corners of the hanger on both sides to make two metal u-shapes. You will notice them less as the garden fills with green and color. After they finish blooming so beautifully, spring bulbs, such as crocuses, daffodils, tulips and hyacinths, go through an ugly duckling stage. Yellowing daffodil foliage can be ugly, but cutting it off steals energy from next year’s blooms. That would mean simply chopping them to the base after they finish flowering. Sure enough, they eventually decompose entirely, but in between, they don’t look that great.The usual advice is to leave the leaves intact as long as they are green (after all, you do want them to “charge their batteries” for next year’s bloom), but then to cut them off when they turn yellow. If you've interplanted bulbs in a mixed border, perennial plants will start sprouting and shrubs will begin filling in at about the same time the bulbs are fading, slowly hiding them from view.

Hide Bulb Leaves in Decline.

I've seen that Princess Irene tulip elsewhere this spring, and it's a beauty! We'll see what happens with the Prinses. Drop that trowel & please add your comments! How to Hide Fading Bulb Leaves . All Rights Reserved. Thanks for the suggestion!MHM, even a mound-forming geranium would be a good choice.Toronto Gardens is from the muddy hands of Helen Battersby and Sarah Battersby, sisters and neighbours who come from long lines of English gardeners. I mostly mix them with deciduous perennials, ones that come up later in the spring, such as hostas, daylilies, grasses, yarrows, delphiniums, ferns, phlox, asters, brunneras, and my favorite, giant fleeceflower (You can use deciduous shrubs, especially those with arching stems, in much the same way: plant bulbs so they’re perfectly visible during their flowering, but where their yellowing foliage will be hidden from view as the shrub fills in with leaves.Don’t braid daffodils! One trick I didn't include comes indirectly from Elizabeth Licata of Gardening While Intoxicated and Garden Rant – she treats her tulips as annuals (often in pots).

The Grounded Gardener: Don't remove dying bulb foliage, disguise it. Every spring we wait eagerly for our spring bulbs to put on a dazzling show, but once the blooms have faded and fallen, we are left with yellowing foliage. Fading Bulb Foliage. My tulips are all species tulips, mainly because I don't want to have to plant them over and over. Here are some supplies and tools we find essential in our everyday work in the garden.

Good posting Dave.

Next Post → 7 thoughts on “Hiding Spent Foliage” Hocking Hills Gardener. By MARTY WINGATE, SPECIAL TO THE P-I. I didn't even realize that the dying-back leaves would be narrower, so that's a plus too. It's too upright, perhaps. I never plant bulbs all on their own.
Hide. Roberta Cerniglia of New York uses wire hangers to help her garden look better while she's letting the bulb foliage ripen. How to Hide Fading Bulb Leaves .

Every spring finds me wishing I could turn back the clock to fall – to plant more bulbs.


Never miss a post with our weekly roundup from Toronto Gardens, right in your inbox. Who ever thought that was a good idea?! Instead, try hiding the foliage with other plants. But, in a small garden, how do you deal with the necessary (and unsightly) evil of ripening foliage afterwards? It only draws attention to what should be obscured.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: March 28, 2010 at 5:50 pm. Excellent points, Helen. We may receive a commission from sales referred by our links; however, we I have to smack my fingers every summer to keep from cutting them off. I find that the dying bulb foliage is more effective at spoiling the sight of the emerging perennial foliage than the perennial foliage is at hiding the bulbs. I like them planted with hostas but need to mix things up with some taller groundcovers. My species tulips have turned into clumps, like a daylily.

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