How to create an easy spring bulb lasagne

If you want lots of beautiful spring flowers dotted around your garden next spring, November is the perfect time to get planting. You can plant in the ground while it remains warm (and unfrozen) but a bulb lasagne – layers of spring bulbs that appear at different times – can add a real pop of colour to anywhere in your garden.

What you need:

A clean frost proof pot (or two)
Grit (not compulsory if you don’t have it)
Compost
Successional bulbs … we went with early crocus (Jan-Feb), narcissus (March)
and late tulips (April)
Chicken wire or rose cut-offs (something to protect your pot from squirrels!)

What you do:

Put a layer of grit followed by a layer of compost
Place your latest flowering bulbs – tulips – cover with about 20cm of compost
Next place your narcissus and cover with another 20cm of compost
Place your crocus bulbs and top up with compost
Protect your lasagne from squirrels and other garden visitors you can use chicken wire, long rose stem cut-offs bent over, or a pretty obelisk or wire cloche
Put it in the place that needs a pop of spring colour and water
Wait until spring and enjoy!