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Taking the plunge
Hi all, what a lovely Summer it has been. My garden certainly has benefited from it!
But I have a dilemma 
I have all my spring bulbs ready to go in the ground but I do not want to destroy the lovely plants that myself and the bees still enjoy.
My bulbs are in the cupboard in the downstairs loo which is unheated and stays below room temperature (if only by a few degrees)
What are peoples opinions?
Should I leave my garden be until we get some frost or should I dig it out and get my bulbs in?
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I'd try and get some planted Matt. The weather changes so suddenly, it's doing it right now here in East Anglia, temperature dropping, wind getting up. Once that happens the insects start to disappear, the summer flowers don't look so good any more and you're out there in a cold wind planting bulbs.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Maybe I'll have to try planting right near them :P
The garden still looks so incredible.
But it is getting cold, just went outside and temp says 9c and the wind is icy cold
I cannot plant until Saturday at the earliest anyway, lets see what the garden looks like then
Some of my garden still looks too good to destroy. So I'm planting the bulbs where it doesn't look so good
In the sticks near Peterborough
I wish I had a big enough garden to have other places to plant them
Once you have got the repeat bulbs in - daffs., crocus and so on, the other plants you love will continue to grow over them until the cold takes its natural toll. It is surprising how close you can dig a little deep hole to drop a bulb in, without the overground plant making any problem of it - in future years of course you won't have the problem as the bulbs will already be there. Daffs especially need to get in now or they will not flower next Spring, tulips can wait a good while yet, and the small ones -scillas, chionodoxias etc. wont mind much either way.
Yes, I have mine all potted up too, some 3,200 bulbs bought recently! Hope to keep about 20% of these which will give me a supply for next year and so on while hope to recover some of the outlay with sales at car boot sales and fares next year.