I also have a separate little flower garden I call my spring bulb and summer annual garden. In the center is a riotous mix of mid-spring flowering daffodils (mainly large cups of diffderent color and hues), backed by tall purple spheres of ornasmental onions and bordered on the other 3 sides with short medium-purple grape hyacinth. (last year's pic was lost when this PC crashed. . . I think I MIGHT have missed on getting them to all bloom at the same time. . . I'll see this year!)
I let the daffy fronds etc. ugli-fy this garden for 6 weeks post-spent bloom, which usually works out to be plant out time for the annuals I've grown indoors specifically for this garden. I just mentally shake my head and look the other way when I pass by !! Last year, I put in zinnias the firswt week of June. (I deadheaded so they'd bloom continously until fall/Oct.) This year, I plan on putting in tidal wave petunias.
I used to have a strip of daylilies on the edge of this garden, next to my sidewalk and that I could see easily from my house, but I didn't like the fact that they bloomed for just one day per bloom (they had several buds/blooms each) and then all there was to see were green fronds. The blooms were gorgeous, though!
