Planting other plants over tulip bed?

Since tulips only bloom in the spring, they will leave the patch looking barren during the summer? If so, can anything be planted over the tulip bed while ensuring the bulbs are intact for next year? Also, I read that tulip beds should be accompanied by something like forget me not but if the tulips are dead then wont that look awkward?? Any help is appreciated. By the way, I am in NJ - zone 6.

Planting other plants over tulip bed?
We plant tulips and daffodils together ....then let them die down ( they can't be cut back because they use the stem to store food for the next year) After the stalks have died down I plant annuals....usually nasturtiums.
Reply:I have always wondered the same thing. What I do is wait until the entire tulip dies back, remove all the dead foliage then I put a large potted container of flowers over the area to fill the void. I have also planted flowers near the tulips that will vine and spread over the area, such as creeping jenny. Good luck, will be watching to see what other answers you get.
Reply:that depends on if you want the same plants every year... you can put down petunias after the tulips die down.. but they wont come back every year... dont put down anything like hostas.. or anything like that because they will come back and take over...you can always put down flowers that will die off at the end of the year... and then you can change them every year.. and keep your tulips intact. good luck!
Reply:What you do is tie the tulip leaves in a loose knot and plant annuals in front of them

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