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Three Gardens With Daffodils

© Clay Higgins

This is the start of a three article feature series tittled "Three Gardens" and brings a new bulb garden each week featuring daffodils.

You want to personalize your gardens! Go ahead, it's easy and it fun to design a personal garden to enhance your home. The key to having a eye pleasing garden display is to plant bulbs in "clumps" and to mix and match colors.

The sidewalk to my favorite place.

The Backyard Walkway Garden

The backyard walkway garden is a terrific way to accent the path to your door. It makes no difference if your walkway leads to your back gate, garage or just to your favorite spot in the backyard. Use bulbs with different heights and that bloom at different times to make the garden last a long time. Shorter bulbs should be planted closest to the walkway to avoid both hiding them from view, and having the taller flowers falling down across the path. Repeat plantings on both sides of the sidewalk, and at different locations along the sidewalk can be very pleasing to the eye.

The below list of bulbs will provide for a planting that is two foot wide along your sidewalk and 12 foot long. Prepare the bed well, dug to at least 8 inches deep and mix in a high percentage of organic matter, and decomposed manure. A similar planting on the other side of the sidewalk would give a dual spectacular display.

• Chionodoxa (pink) Spaced 3" apart. Height 3" and about 20 bulbs to a clump - 2 clumps 40 bulbs
• Crocus (white) Spaced 4" apart. Height 6" and about 20 bulbs to a clump-2 clumps 40 bulbs
• Crocus (yellow) Spaced 4" apart. Height 6" and about 12 bulbs to a clump-2 clumps 24 bulbs
• Daffodils (yellow)Spaced 6" apart. Height 18" and about 10 bulbs to a clump - 2 clumps 20 bulbs
• Daffodils (mixed) Spaced 6" apart. Height 18" and about 20 bulbs to a clump - 2 clumps 40 bulbs
• Daffodils (Pink) Spaced 6" apart. Height 18" and about 9 bulbs to a clump - 1 clumps 9 bulbs
• Hyacinths (purple) Spaced 6" apart. Height 8" and about 10 bulbs to a clump - 1 clump 10 bulbs
• Tulips (yellow) Spaced 4" apart. Height 16" and about 16 bulbs to a clump-2 clumps 32 bulbs
• Tulips (pink) Spaced 4" apart. Height 16" and about 9 bulbs to a clump-1 clump 9 bulbs
• TOTAL BULBS 224

Lay out the plantings by using the clump method. Plant the taller bulbs away from the sidewalk with a companion shorter bulb between the taller, and the edge of the walk. The mixed daffodil clumps will be large and can be the exception by being planted across the entire 2 feet width of the bed. For repeating the clumps, use the 2/3 method, as in if you put a clump of tulips at one end of the bed, repeat that clump no closer than 2/3rds the length of the bed away. Try not to put clumps at the same location, meaning at the start and end of the same bed. Make sure to mix the colors for the best effect.

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