Bulbs For Every Garden

Bulbs give you a rainbow of of dazzling colors with very little work. You can find some for every garden situation including borders, bedding displays, rock gardens, and raised beds.

They can bloom in the spring, summer, and fall depending on what variety you buy.

We especially like spring flowering daffodils, and we have over a hundred different varieties. If you buy different varieties that bloom at different intervals during the spring, you will be able to stretch the spring season out by a few weeks.

Yellow daffodil are excellent for brightening up a shady area and provide a nice burst of color, while others like cyclamens are ideal for more subdued planting with their pastel colors.

Tulips are also beautiful and now are so hybridized that you may not even recognize them as tulips.

Tulips here in the Mid-South are planted as annuals. It just does not get cold enough for them to come back well year after year. Below you can see how nice it is to plant them in a container.

You may want to try your hand at growing some bulbs indoors such as amaryllis, hyacinths, and narcissus (paperwhites). Or, you may chose to plant them in a container near a door or under a window.

My favorite use for is using them as cut flowers. Evidence shows that having cut flowers in a room actually boosts peoples moods.

Planting Time

If you are planting native woodland varieties, give them rich organic soil and fairly dry conditions and dappled shade of trees and shrubs.

Be sure and check to see if the varieties you want will grow in the area you want to plant them. Nursery centers and online resources have this information.

Research for this article was obtained from an excellent book that we highly recommend called The Complete Book of Bulbs, Corms, Tubers, and Rhizomes by Brian Mathew and Philip Swindells.