Oh no Bet! I am so sorry!
Almost all of the spring-blooming/summer-dormant bulbs need relative dryness when they are dormant (some of the shade lovers don't like to totally dry out, but even they don't like drowning)
--many can handle quite a bit of summer water in very well drained soil and some can handle less well drained soil if there are lots of thirsty roots to take up the water such that the dormant bulbs are never soggy. Big deep, drinkers like trees and shrubs work well.
I know many folks succeed with annuals over perennial bulbs--if you don't have very well drained soil there I suppose that you could dig the bulbs up and store them dry when you plant the annuals and then replant in the fall. (I can't be disciplined enough for that kinda thing--but it works) I find also that planting them deeper than suggested seems to help me too, but I also have that winter thing going on every year.
Alliums--some are like weeds for me, I can't eradicate them and I wonder what I was thinking when I planted them--others, I have given my best drained soil and still they still won't cooperate
