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Layer your plants to create stunning springtime scenes. Here, low groundhugging annuals step up to mid-level tulips and beyond that to blossom trees, like flowering cherries and plums.

You don’t need tons of outdoor space to achieve fabulous effects, just borrow pockets of ideas. A weeping cherry in a pot, surrounded by tulips, will create an exquisite spring vignette in miniature.

Contrast formal row plantings of bulbs with organically shaped beds edged by flowing curved lines.

Jump start spring in your garden by planting sweeps of early blooming bulbs, like jonquils – which start in August – round the base of deciduous trees. This way, the trees come to life long before their leaves sprout.