Daylilies are not an option as my husband is very allergic to them. My turn: I love the poor unused terrace to the right of the front door. We have many dozens of different kinds of daffodils that leave a mass of dying foliage all the way into mid-June. Best Companion Plants for Daffodils. Anon, E-mail Yes, removing the dead moss will give your new lawn seed a better chance of taking root. Marianne Binetti is the author of “Easy Answers for Great Gardens” and eight other gardening books.
Oftentimes your extension office will actually have fact sheets recommending plants for specific purposes like this. (Sorry ladies, postal carrier, not mailman.) Here are a few tricks for hiding the evidence: Plant large-leaf bulbs behind spreaders like Hosta, whose leaves will emerge just in time to conceal the dying foliage. Perhaps, if you found another home for the light green thingies, and filled in between the darker green cubes with the identical species, you would have a neat hedge, which you could then ignore so that it attains its natural beauty and height. While their leaves remain green and healthy for a few weeks, they then start to yellow and die, not so nice to see. That would mean simply chopping them to the base after they finish flowering.

And then make sure the paint on the box in in great repair and matches your lawn closely.

I was surprised how far apart they were planted. She has hyacinths, followed by daffodils, then masses of colorful tulips. I have used nicotiana, salvias, and floss flowers, and others I can't think of right now. I mostly use annuals: larkspur, silene and various poppies followed by periwinkles and melampodium for summer and fall. I like your idea of not massing bulbs together. http://www.ebmud.com/files/9914/1997/9613/Plant-Book-Cover.jpg This award-winning book contains more than 525 beautiful color photographs and features 650 Californian and Mediterranean plants well suited to summer-dry climates of the Bay Area and beyond. For example, plant perennial plants that will hide the dying foliage as they grow in spring. Give yourself and your visitors something else, much prettier and more striking, to look at....like flowering tree(s), rose arbor, planting bed, rock garden, stone wall, rose bushes on fence, or just great landscaping with all detail placed AWAY from the utility box. I plant my bulbs closely around perennials firstly so I wont dig up the bulbs by accident when planting something else and secondly so that the perennial's leaves hide the dying foliage of the bulb. Do I have to remove all this dead moss before I replant the lawn? Anything can change.Perennials: The New York Botanical Garden set the standard with the Daylily/Daffodil Walk. They will also bloom for pretty much the rest of the summer and they attract butterflies. Instead, consider ways to camouflage the leaves. By Marianne Binetti Tacoma There must be 50 ways to leave your foliage cover, but the easiest is to just cut all ugly foliage to ground level immediately and then buy fresh new bulbs each fall. That certainly hides the foliage! Enprov's fences are what would suit you well, out by the street, paralleling your property line. Iberis is fair as a companion. Standard. She plants perennials, such as columbine, dianthus, coneflowers, coreopsis and sedum, around the bulbs so that those plants can cover the dying leaves. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. As the foliage fades on spring bulbs, the energy is sent to the bulb for next year’s flowers.

Water rhododendrons and azaleas so they form flowers for spring now.Marianne Binetti is the author of "Easy Answers And it gives you the chance to mix it up with different colours every year. Berberis aquifolium) Common names: Oregon grape, Oregon grape holly, hollyleaved barberry Origin: California; some regions in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia and northern Mexico; prohibited in Michigan due to black stem rust Natural habitat: Slopes, canyons, coniferous forests, oak woodlands, chaparral; below 6,500 feet elevation Where it will grow: Easily hardy to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (USDA zones 5 to 9; find your zone) Water requirement: Drought tolerant to needing occasional water Light requirement: Full sun along the coast; partial shade inland Soil: Adaptable; prefers acidic, well-drained soil Mature size: 3 to 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide; spreads slowly Benefits and tolerances: Benefits birds and butterflies; tolerates coastal conditions, clay, drought and desert; good with oaks; deer resistant; edible Seasonal interest: Year-round interest, with spring flowers, bronze new foliage and fall colors, without dropping leaves; summer berries follow the bloom, ripening to dark purple in summer to fall When to plant: Late fall is ideal; winter works well; Botanical name: Sambucus nigra ssp.