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flowers- how close can they be?
I planted a boat load of bulb flowers last fall and they are sprouting all over the place. BUT I also would like to plant some lillies and other later-blooming flowers too (the dangers of Home Depot!). Unfortunately, my little flower garden area isn't that big. How close can I plant my later blooming flowers to my currently blooming bulbs? TIA!
Re: flowers- how close can they be?
If you are planning on planting lilies, you really need to leave 8-12 inches between bulbs. You can plant them closer, but it'll be hard to divide them. Lilies mulitply astonishingly fast. Each year, one bulb multiplies by 3. I started with just 5 lilies. The second year, I had 15 plants, my 3rd year I had 45 plants. This year, I spent early fall dividing them. I gave away nearly half of my bulbs to keep my beds from being over crowded.
I tend to interplant my daffodils, tulips, and crocus without much problem. They don't seem to multiply as fast as the lilies do.
Just to confirm, that's 8-12 inches between each lilly bulb-- not 8-12 inches between a lilly bulb and my daffodil/tulip/hyacinth bulb?
Yes, 8-12 inches between lily bulbs. Most of my tulip/daffodil bulbs are planted in clumps that aren't close to my lily bulbs. I want to say the daffodils that are planted closest to my lilies are about 6-8 inches apart. What I found was that when I dug up my clumps of lilies to divide them this year, I lost a few daffodil bulbs that were planted too close to the lilies.
Here's a link for spacing for tulip/daffodils/hyacinth/crcous plantings:
http://www.rochestergardening.com/bulbs/spring3p.html
And another link on lilies:
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/dg1112.html
I know the 8-12 inches apart for the lilies seems so sparse, especially when you want a show stopping bloom display, but by year 2, you'll have a massive amount of blooms. I really didn't know they'd multiply so well. My daffodils and tulips don't multiply at the same rate, so you plants a lot of those and not worry - but lilies, they are serious multipliers. For one of my tall asiatic lilies (it's like 4 ft tall!), I found 5 bulblets on ONE plant. The smaller lilies (my 2-3 ft variet), typically, it divides by 3. In fact - I'd almost say if you can plant a bed with just lilies - do that! LOL There are so many varieties, you can have them bloom over the course of late May - August.