Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

"pat" wrote in message
m...
Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

Last year, I left all my spring bulbs in their pots (daffs, snowdrops,
tulips, crocus, anemone, etc). All of them are flowering their socks off
right now.

"pat" wrote in message
m...
Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

Last year, I left all my spring bulbs in their pots (daffs, snowdrops,
tulips, crocus, anemone, etc). All of them are flowering their socks off
right now.

"pat" wrote in message
m...
Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

Put everything in one pot so they flower through the year and then you won't
have to move the pots at all. The stuff which is coming up will help hide
the foliage of the things that are dying down. You could have a few siberian
iris then daffodil then tulip then gladioli and have the whole lot growing
up through low greenery such as variegated ivies to give a bit of
all-year-round interest.

I'm not sure why separate pots would be easier for you unless you're
planning on leaving the 'dead' pots next to the 'live' ones.

--
Martin & Anna Sykes
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm

"pat" wrote in message
m...
Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

Put everything in one pot so they flower through the year and then you won't
have to move the pots at all. The stuff which is coming up will help hide
the foliage of the things that are dying down. You could have a few siberian
iris then daffodil then tulip then gladioli and have the whole lot growing
up through low greenery such as variegated ivies to give a bit of
all-year-round interest.

I'm not sure why separate pots would be easier for you unless you're
planning on leaving the 'dead' pots next to the 'live' ones.

--
Martin & Anna Sykes
( Remove x's when replying )
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm

In article , pat
writes
Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

yes, no problem. Feed the daffs from now until they die down - whether
they flower next year depends on them building up the buds now.

The leaves will have died down by midsummer, so you might be able to use
the same pots for a late summer/autumn display.

For several years I kept going a window box mainly planted with heathers
but in the autumn hardy cyclamen would poke their way through the
heathers, and in spring I'd have miniature daffodils (daffodils 8 inches
or less high don't flop around so much in pots)

And I now have a low maintenance box on the toilet window which has
daffodils in the spring, with an underplanting of mixed succulents to
give a vegetative display for the rest of the year.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

In article , pat
writes
Due to my and disability, I am considering keeping separate winter
pots (eg for daffs) and different pots for a whole host of summer
bedding. I plan on leaving the daffs to die off in their pots during
the summer months. Would this be OK?

yes, no problem. Feed the daffs from now until they die down - whether
they flower next year depends on them building up the buds now.

The leaves will have died down by midsummer, so you might be able to use
the same pots for a late summer/autumn display.

For several years I kept going a window box mainly planted with heathers
but in the autumn hardy cyclamen would poke their way through the
heathers, and in spring I'd have miniature daffodils (daffodils 8 inches
or less high don't flop around so much in pots)

And I now have a low maintenance box on the toilet window which has
daffodils in the spring, with an underplanting of mixed succulents to
give a vegetative display for the rest of the year.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm