How to Plant Almost Anything

Store them in a cool, dry, dark location, like a basement, until you are ready to plant.

Alliums, Hyacinthus, Muscari, Narcissus, Nectaroscordum and Leucojum are all noted as deer resistant in their guides. Fritillaria Imperialis is deer and rodent resistant and will also keep rodents away from other bulbs planted around it.

After flowering, the leaves should be allowed to die down. The leaves gather sunlight and provide nourishment for next year’s show.

Most tulips should be treated as annuals. Some Fosteriana, Greigii and species tulips are suitable for naturalizing and will return.

It covers what happens after flowering finishes. For hardy bulbs that usually means letting the foliage die down and leaving them in the ground. For tender bulbs it means lifting them before the first frost, drying them, and storing them somewhere cool and dark until spring.

Each guide gives its own depth and spacing in centimetres with inches alongside. Where a guide is not available, planting roughly three times as deep as the bulb is tall is the general rule these guides follow.