Gardening mistakes

[Dave2002]

I put some ornamental box "bushes" in pots to go either side of an outside door. Later I found some bulbs, and thought I'd put them round under the box plants. Possibly some of the bulbs were already there - as the pots were inherited.

Everthing fine until eventually daffodils appeared - looked terrible. Once they'd died back, I tried to remove them - which took hours and a lot of digging around in the pot to retrieve the bulbs. Now replanted the box plants, and the bulbs will be put somewhere else for next year.

Don't even think of doing this - keep bulbs well away from plants like that.

[vinteuil]

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... a sad story, that.

And I hope your box won't fall victim to the disease that is blighting so much box :

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=851

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[Serial_Apologist]

I put some ornamental box "bushes" in pots to go either side of an outside door. Later I found some bulbs, and thought I'd put them round under the box plants. Possibly some of the bulbs were already there - as the pots were inherited.

Everthing fine until eventually daffodils appeared - looked terrible. Once they'd died back, I tried to remove them - which took hours and a lot of digging around in the pot to retrieve the bulbs. Now replanted the box plants, and the bulbs will be put somewhere else for next year.

Don't even think of doing this - keep bulbs well away from plants like that.

I would agree that the daffodils would appear over-prominent in such a planting scheme. However, walking past a trendy-looking pub in the Covent Garden area yesterday, I noticed that Aubretia had been planted at the bases of the two potted standard box or bay tree pom-poms outside the main entrance, and thought the look of the trailing purple flower cascades most effective in its minimalist context.

[gradus]

Difficult to know where to start since gardening is almost by definition a series of mistakes from which one occasionally learns something of use, but on the subject of bulbs in pots I've learnt this year that mixing tall narcissi/daffs with late flowering tulips such a Parrot vars. just looks a mess with the exotic looking tulips flowering beautifully but left sitting in a bouquet of dying leaves.

[doversoul1]

One year, I planted tulips (I think they were) in my tubs but peanuts and sunflowers came up instead. I only plant annuals in the tubs these days.