Thank you for the nice compliment about my garden designs. I try to have lots of things blooming. Also I like plants in a large mass, not just one here and there. And I like to put one type of plants in and around other types. Like bulbs around the daylilies. I don't know why everyone doesn't have some type of spring bulbs in the daylily beds.
I do love my daylilies and I have lots of them. But if I had nothing but daylilies for flowers in my garden, I would not be happy. I love color in the garden and that means lots of flowers and I like them to have always something blooming. So I start with spring bulbs. It took me afew years to get my daylily beds planted enough so that I could add the bulbs in back, front and around them but that is what I am doing now. I have the spring bulbs and also, later in the season, I have the lilies from bulbs.
Above picture is a terraced area in my front yard. Picture shows daffs in the two belgium block mini terraces. At each end of those mini terraces I have some daylily plants. Then I plant zinnias there were the daffs are for summer color.
In front of those mini terraces is a flat terrace that is behind a stacked stone wall immediately off the sidewalk. That has two rows of daylilies running accross the front of it all the way. Between the rows are tulips planted and also a row of tulips behind. Behind that are lilies off to one side and tall bearded iris off to the other side. Everything is planted out here with a cottage garden look in mind. At least my version of a cottage garden.
