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bulbs ideal are ideal "fillers" in the garden, and are useful for providing seasonal splashes of color before disappearing into the soil to make way for other plants. Easy-to-grow favorites include crocuses, grape hyacinth, snowdrops, winter aconites and tulips. Some bulbs ideal are also suitable for naturalizing in large patches, notably daffodils and bluebells.

THESE CONTAINERS vary widely in shape and size and the types of plant that suit them. Large Tubs are ideal for shrubs as well as summer-flowering bedding plants and spring-flowering bulbs ideal. Urns are smaller and hold less compost. They are usually more decorative in character and so are perhaps best devoted to summer-flowering plants and displays of bulbs ideal in spring.

One of the most popular ways of growing bulbs ideal—snowdrops, daffodils and crocuses, in particular—is to naturalize them in drifts so they spread at will. This is usually done in grass, but those bulbs ideal preferring shady woodland conditions can be naturalized in soil under trees and shrubs. It is also possible to establish bulbs ideal beneath a planting of ground cover like scrambling ivies.