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First year gardening so I'm on a steep learning curve. I was at my local nursery today and saw that they had a whole slew of early to mid-spring flower bulbs out for sale and it got me excited for next year. However, I've never done any planting of bulbs before so I was wondering how I go about laying out a garden bed/border that will use these different blooming spring bulbs. I want to get a consistent flow of new blooms opening up as the year progresses without having to worry too much about additional bedding plants being plugged in.

Will planting snowdrops in close proximity to other later blooming bulbs cause problems or is that okay seeing that the snowdrop should be finished by the time the next bulb is getting ready to bloom or, is the idea that I use one bulb for an area then when they are done fill in with bedding plants?

Is there a website or good book I could be reading to help out with this?

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Okay, just found some material telling me I can do lasagna planting of bulbs which is exactly what I was wanting to do. Layer the later spring bulbs deeper than the earlier spring bulbs working my way up to the crocus bulbs at 2 inch depth. Then fill in with some ground cover plants so the area doesn't look desolate.

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