Planting bulbs offers us the glimmer of hope that we all need

Spring bulbs can be planted within existing perennial beds. Pairings with spring-flowering perennials can be particularly effective. Here, Dutch garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet has produced a hot color scheme with daffodils, tulips, wallflowers and spurges.

Adrian Higgins, Philadelphia Inquirer

Bulb-planting in the fall is always an act of hope. This year, it becomes a form of therapy. When the crocuses, daffodils, and tulips next flower, we will be assured of at least one thing: It won’t be 2020.
From a practical standpoint, it’s difficult to mess up with bulbs; they are little packages programmed to grow and bloom. All they need is some moisture and the enduring cold soil of winter to shoot up and flower early next year. The next few weeks are the prime bulb-planting season, but these wee packets of spring can go in anytime before the ground freezes. I’d get to this sooner rather than later, though. In the hyper-domestic pandemic paradigm, many people are jumping on bulb-planting as a way of doing something for and around their homes, and varieties are selling out.

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