April showers bring May flowers, which brings June work. Spring is almost over, summer is approaching and there's this period where everything is dying off... what do you do?

Building garden layers helps you achieve garden beauty all season long.

There's nothing quite as cheery as Spring flowers, as they signal the end of a harsh winter and the beginning of another beautiful Canadian summer. But there's always this one period.. between Spring's glory and Summer's bounty, when all you have are dying tulip stalks and limp daffodils.

Although you may be tempted to pull up dying tulip stalks, resist that temptation. Tulips need the dying back process in order to "feed" the bulb for future years.

However, by staging or "layering" your garden with flowers that bloom at different times, you can enjoy floral colorals from the first thaw to the last leaf falls onto the ground.

This mix should include early and late blooming bulbs, perennials, flowering shrubs and annuals that can be used to "hide" the sping plants as they complete their necessary dying-back cycle.