Hi all, I am not sure which forum is the right place to post this, so I am putting it in several. I am in a dilemma about what types of bulbs to put in my year old landscape. We have a deer problem, so I have decided to only put tulips in pots and then to spray them. I also don't like how tulips diminish after the first year and don't come back so nice. I do love tulips though.

I have purchased large bags of assorted double types of daffodils, a large amount of assorted grape muscari, and also gladiator and purple rain allium. I planted the gladiator allium yesterday in a large island bed at the back that has a large boulder in it. I have purple rain allium that I am considering for the middle of the bed, and am unsure of what to put at the forefront of the island.

The front of our house has foundation plantings that are still pretty small. Each end of the beds on either side of the front walk has a false cypress at the ends. The rest of the beds have bobo hydrangea that are now bare, wee willy boxwood in the front, some japanese grasses that are a bright green in the summer, and on the right ends side, a flowering crab with 9 rosebud azaleas under it. I was looking for a very monochromatic look in bulbs for the spring. I purchased MANY grape hyacinths, 800, and about 60 assorted blue hyacinths. I will put lots of purple triumph tulips in tall, narrow black modern looking pots. I plan to start bulbs in pots in the garage and then bring the out in the spring and pop them into the pots. I realize that they will have to be sprayed.

This is my dillemma- I am now reading that if you plant grape hyacinths, they will not stay in the neat large clumps that I planned. I am reading that they naturalize and spread like crazy. I am reading that you cannot even plant them in certain areas, because it is prohibited. Can anyone shed some light on this? I never heard of such a thing.I am considering returning all of the grape hyacinths because of this. Now my plan is totally changed, and I have enough of the assorted double daffodils for the front, but daffodils sort of look casual to me and not the look I was after. I would love tulips planted in the ground, but again, we have the deer and tulips do not naturalize well and go down in quality pretty fast after the first year. Does anyone have any thoughts that could help me with my choices? Costco still has bags of bulbs I think, so I may be able to change around what I am doing if I can come up with a plan I like. I still like the monochromatic blue/purple look in the front of the house, but am afraid of the grape hyacinths looking wild and untamed. And not sure how long their foiliage hangs around. Thanks to anyone who can weigh in on this.