Tulips and daffodils in a wave are deservedly considered one of the most beloved spring flowers. Due to the huge number of shapes and unimaginable colors and color combinations, they look unusually beautiful and spring-like elegant in single plantings. But they are even better combined with other plants - with their help you can create whole floral arrangements that will become the highlight of any landscape design.

Planting Ideas

The main guarantee of a beautiful flowerbed can be safely called high-quality and healthy planting material, planted on a good site. Tulips grow well in areas with a lot of sunlight, but a small partial shade will not harm them. Light and fertile sandy loam or loam is considered optimal soil.

Bulb planting in flower beds is recommended to be done in autumn, but site preparation should be done a little earlier. A couple of months before this, the soil needs to be dug up (to a depth of 40 cm), after which it is necessary to thoroughly get rid of weeds, treat the area from pathogens and introduce complex fertilizers. Flower beds with tulips and daffodils can be placed throughout the garden.

Important! Tulips do not respond well to moisture stagnation (the bulb rots easily). Based on this, one should avoid planting these flowers in lowlands and on slopes.

Each of them can be made original and unusual:

• near the gazebo;
• near shrubs or near-tree trunks of deciduous trees;
• along the tracks;
• on the lawn;
• on the lawn;
• near the fence.

So that the work was not in vain and the spring favorites pleased with a long and spectacular flowering, it is very important to choose the right varieties. Attention should be paid not only to external characteristics, such as the color of the buds and the shape of the petals, the height of the plant and the shape of the leaves, but also the timing of the appearance of the buds.

Important! Try not to plant tulips in the area where other bulb plants grew last year — this can lead to pests and diseases.

Near the fence

Many housewives plant tulips and daffodils along the fence. However, this is not the most favorable place for high-quality growth, development and flowering of these plants. This is due to the fact that any fence gives a shadow, which these flowers do not like. In addition, there is a high probability of moisture stagnation during heavy rainfall, which can ultimately destroy the bulb.

If you decide to plant a flower under the fence, it is recommended to choose the highest varieties. It is worth noting that, according to landscape designers, all representatives of the onion family look stylish and elegant against the background of a forged fence.

On the flowerbed

A flower bed is a limitless field for imagination, because there are many original unique schemes according to which tulips can be planted there.Of course, you can buy a couple of dozen bulbs and randomly place them on a flower bed. However, such a method will not allow to reveal all the beauty and grandeur of these spring beauties - they will be lost among other plants, and even the most luxurious varieties will look inconspicuous and inconspicuous, so professionals strongly recommend planting tulips in flower beds in groups.

Did you know? The tulip petals are edible and can be consumed instead of onions.

There are several simple methods for this:

1. Group landing. In this option, you can plant a large number of identical tulips or create a floral arrangement (with a smooth transition from pale to the most saturated color or from contrasting colors). A combination of red, yellow and white buds can be called successful. Also recently, flowerbeds with flowers of the same color, but of different varieties, have become increasingly popular. According to experts, they look best together: rounded with terry; narrowed with pion-shaped; fringed with lilac-colored.
2. To make a group of the same color appear thick and voluminous, it is recommended to plant at least 15–20 bulbs at a distance of 3 to 5 cm.
3. Landing in height. If you perform the landing work correctly and as carefully as possible, the final result will amaze everyone around. The main principle of this method is to plant dwarf and stunted varieties in the foreground, medium-sized species in the middle and highest in the background. This option is suitable for even flower beds. Inattention can lead to the fact that a lot of effort, time and, probably, finance will be spent, and in the front garden there will be just chaos.
4. Planting by flowering time. Unfortunately, spring flowers please with their beauty for a very short time. So that the flowerbed is not empty and has a springy elegant look, you can choose tulip varieties in such a way that as soon as some begin to bloom, others will only begin to bloom. The assortment of early, medium and late varieties is very extensive. As a rule, terry and round ones are the first to blossom, followed by Darwin hybrids and late varieties close the tulip season.

In pots

Tulips, like many other bulbs, perform well when grown in pots. In this form, they will perfectly fit into any landscape design - they will dilute it with bright colors, emphasize the necessary details, and hide the errors.

Important! The method of wintering tulips needs to be chosen so that they do not freeze at the place of their storage, but also do not germinate. If the bulbs wake up prematurely, there will be no beautiful and magnificent flowering on time.

Almost any variety of tulips is suitable for planting in pots. The containers where the flowers are planned to be planted should be deep enough and provided with drainage holes. At the bottom of the pot you need to put drainage (expanded clay or even the remains of clay pots will do). Next, fill the pot to the top with a suitable substrate and plant the bulbs there at the same depth as in the open ground, but reduce the distance between them.

For pots with plants to be wintered safely, they must either be buried in the ground (directly with a container) and covered with branches of any coniferous tree, or wrapped in a bubble wrap and installed on a foam backing.

Design of the landing site

In addition to the above, designers also offer several original solutions for planting tulips and daffodils:

• planting under trees (preferably fruit). You can create a hedge from almost any variety of tulips. Preferably, the varieties are harmoniously combined in color and height. According to experts, the best option would be Kaufman hybrids;
• Container garden - a chic design option for a terrace or a place to relax in the yard. In the autumn, plant as many bulbs as possible in large or medium pots, and in the spring they need to be placed in the desired area or placed in a beautiful flower pot;
• in a wheel from a car or cart;
• alpine hill. To create a rocky garden, undersized species are better suited. It is better that the rock garden is located in a place that will fall under the first spring sunshine. Designers recommend placing it near evergreen bushes;
• daffodils in garden modules look incredibly impressive. These modules should be considered at the stage of flooring.

Using a duet with different colors

Tulips can coexist peacefully on the same flower bed with other plants, moreover, even the most unexpected duos at first glance give an excellent result and create stylish and original compositions. The main criterion for selecting potential neighbors of this bulb is the similarity in the requirements for lighting, moisture, and also the composition and structure of the soil.

Did you know? Cut tulips do not stop growing. Being in a vase with water, they can grow by about 3 cm.

Most often, tulips are planted on the same site as other bulbs. This makes it possible to dig bulbs after flowering, and to grow annuals on the liberated territory. Tulips with daffodils look romantic and at the same time elegantly on the same flowerbed. A combination of crocuses and hyacinths looks very tender and spring-like.

It is also recommended to place tulips in flower beds with annual flowers with bright and abundant flowering (zinnias, petunias, asters, pansies). It is important that the roots of annuals are loose and shallow - so they will not interfere with the development of bulbs. For many years, tulip neighbors can be hosts, peonies, gypsophila, ferns. You can also plant tulips in the foreground, when in the background - ornamental shrubs, such as weigela, rhododendron.

Tulips are amazing spring flowers. Despite such a short period of flowering, many admire their beauty and variety. With the right approach on your site, you can create a real masterpiece of landscape design.