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KateNY said:[quote="stone"] What do you mean by vinca?


I have no idea. Vinca minor maybe? 6-8" evergreen ground cover. Everyone here has some because bedrock comes to the surface all over the place and it's hard to do a real garden or even a lawn. The stuff my mom had for 30 years did not spread a lot, just needed to be thinned out once in a while.

Gravel is robin egg sized stones, mostly smooth, not the very white angular quartz. I guess I'll just add some composted soil and bone meal (somebody said....) to the holes and hope for the best.

Somebody else is going to have to do the digging 😁 I have neither the tools nor the strength to get through all this rock. My little trowel barely made a dent.

Vinca with the pretty blue flowers that always escapes cultivation and then... crowds out all the wonderful understory native plants that are needed by the wildlife...

Do you know how people "force" bulbs in the winter?
They fill a bowl with those round pebbles... balance the bulbs on top of the rocks, and then add a little water being careful that the bulbs aren't setting in standing water...

the bulbs send roots through the pebbles, and grow leaves, and eventual blooms.

Those round pebbles will be just fine as a bulb bed... shouldn't be any need to amend the planting holes for daffodil.

Rather than trying to plant bulbs with a trowel, use a digging shovel.