I've planted forget me nots with tulips in pots. What should I do with the forget me nots when the tulips have finished their display? Will they die or keep living? Should I dig out the finished tulips and put other plants alongside?
Do you have ground to plant it in ? This will free your pot for something else as tulips can be stored if you wish or planted out. Forgetmenots will spread as @didyw mentions. If you have lots growing in the garden you can simply pull them out when they have gone to seed and they will be back the following spring.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
I did exactly the same thing this year with my tulip bulbs. My forget me nots came from self sown seedlings around the garden and from between paving. I treat tulips as annuals as they rarely do anything in their 2nd year so I put them on the compost heap. The forget me nots I will do the same as I have zillions of forget me not seedlings each year from some planted before I owned the garden. My tulips are yellow and orange, under planted with sky blue forget me nots. Which has pleased me no end. My mother used to grow pink Darwin tulips underplanted with forget me nots. A really old fashioned combination, but still lovely.
@MOrgana Most Tulips are best grown as annuals. @Joyce Goldenlily mentions the Darwins and also the Appeldorn tulips, these are more likely to come back year two in well drained soil and sun. In my clay soil I always buy just a few and start again each year.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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I treat tulips as annuals as they rarely do anything in their 2nd year so I put them on the compost heap. The forget me nots I will do the same as I have zillions of forget me not seedlings each year from some planted before I owned the garden.
My tulips are yellow and orange, under planted with sky blue forget me nots. Which has pleased me no end.
My mother used to grow pink Darwin tulips underplanted with forget me nots. A really old fashioned combination, but still lovely.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I think I'll move the forget me nots into ground once the tulips are done to free the pots up