Flower Bulb Planting Combinations

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A field of one type of bulb can be a bit...blase. Learn a few favorite bulb combinations from our guests. Connect With Peggy, Dan, and Summer: Peggy Anne Montgomery is a horticulturist and works with FlowerBulbs.com, Dan Benarcik is a horticulturist at Chanticleer Gardens, and Summer Rayne Oakes of Homestead Brooklyn recently started a new project called Flock up in the Finger Lakes of New York. FlowerBulbs.com Flower Bulbs on Facebook Flower Bulbs on Instagram Chanticleer Gardens Dan Benarcik’s Website Homestead Brooklyn on Instagram Flock Finger Lakes on YouTube Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Bulb Week here on the Epic Gardening Podcast, my friends.
0:17.8	I hope you're inspired to plant them.
0:19.1	I certainly am, as we've listened, I'm going to have to, you know, change up my selection
0:23.8	strategy for where I live here, but we're joined again by Peggy Ann Montgomery and Dan
0:28.1	Arsac, both proficient bulb growers, horticulturists, and then summer rain oaks of homestead
0:34.0	Brooklyn and her new project, Flock.
0:36.4	So guys, we've talked about now how to plant them, which is fantastic.
0:39.6	So we got, you know, the classic, you know, call it the basic Gardener method that I'm
0:44.0	probably going to be doing in a container.
0:45.3	And then we have summer over here with a bulb machine, dropping thousands of bulbs in
0:49.0	the ground.
0:50.0	So there's a, you know, there's a, say, suffice to say there's a range of methods available.
0:53.9	But what about just some, some combos, because I would imagine summer you're not going
0:57.3	to want to have, you know, 40,000 daffodils in a row, right?
1:01.9	And so how are, how are you guys thinking about combining these?
1:05.4	And I know we kind of got into it a little bit in the spring episode with the succession
1:08.9	planting ideas.
1:09.9	But I don't know, I mean, what are some combinations you guys like?
1:14.1	Well, you know, I, I'm really attracted to the color and I didn't want anything that
1:18.8	was like too like splashy in the sense that I don't want to be like, let's, here's the
1:25.5	rainbow.
1:26.5	So we really stuck with plants that are more like blues and purples and whites and some,
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