Zone 6-3 Garden blooming Spring 2024
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my first spring bulb container garden in zone 6
Comments (3)For the first time this fall i've planted bulbs in my pots to have bloom for the spring. I usually plant in the ground so I don't have any experience with how the winter will be on the bulbs in the pots. Do you have to protect the pots somehow so they don't freeze??? I'm in Michigan and it gets really cold here. I have planted the bulbs in a 20" in diameter pot, and have put leaves on top along with landscape fabric to hold the leaves in. I have also grouped the 3 pots together in the corner of my house. Hopefully this will be enough to keep them alive for the spring. Any suggestions would be appreciated....See Morecan i transplant peonies in early spring (zone 6/7)?
Comments (9)I gather than you don't have the option to wait til fall, so if it were me, I would try to dig them now before they leaf out, leaving as much soil as I could around them & transplant them into their permanent spot immediately. Of course, if these are really old clumps this would be hard, but I would try to keep as much intact as possible, not dividing them now. I know all the rules say they won't bloom the following year if you move them in the spring, but I have divided them a couple of times-before I knew about the rules-& they bloomed remarkably well the following spring. Keep in mind that some varieties may adapt more easily....See MoreZone 6 Shade Garden plant help!
Comments (21)I'd like to second the hellebores - IF (and this is a pretty big if) the bed is in an area where you're likely to see it in the winter months. I've probably posted about this more than a few times, but I was growing hellebores for 3 or 4 years before I even knew they flowered. This was a very long time ago, when they were relatively unknown in New England, and I'd bought one as a foliage plant for a dark wooded area of my yard - I never ventured into that corner in winter. There are lots of great hellebores - H. foetidus and x hybridus (aka orientalis) are the most forgiving, in my experience, but H niger, the Christmas rose, is also tough as nails where it's happy. You just can't beat them for a) glossy evergreen foliage and b) winter flowers. They self-sow at a perfect rate, at least here on Cape Cod - never aggressive, but they pop up here and there, just when you think you need some more of them....See MoreShould I plant my spring bulbs yet in zone 6?
Comments (4)in my metro detroit .... october is the month.. just get it done ... use sticks or some such to mark area you already planted.. so you dont overplant later .. the general rule for depth is 3 times the height of the bulb ... i dont know what to tell you.. if you have that horrible OH clay ... they will grow roots until the ground freezes.. or the soil cools to the depth of the bulb ... the shallowest bulbs.. like crocus.. are the first to bloom in spring.. because of the converse.. the soil warms to root/bulb depth .. so they get moving very early ... you could have started in mid sept.. no need to wait until frost or freeze ... ken...See Moreforever_a_newbie_VA8
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