Brighten Up Your Garden With Flowering Bulbs

Spring Time Splender

Nothing says spring more than a bulb garden! Flower bulbs are an easy way to add splashes of color to your garden and bulbs are among the most anticipated flowers — their appearance signals a new garden season and the return of color to the bleak late-winter landscape.

Bulbs For Your Flower Beds

Flowering bulbs have an important advantage over regular plants, they can store energy from one growing season to the next. When a bulb starts to grow, it uses these stored reserves to develop roots, shoots, leaves and flowers. Being so self-sufficient means that flower bulbs don’t have to wait for perfect weather or ideal soil conditions. By nature, they already have what they need to thrive.  

Spring-Blooming Flower Bulbs

Spring-blooming bulbs are planted in mid to late fall. Once they are in the ground, the bulbs will quickly develop roots before going to sleep until spring.  If you want to try something that isn’t ideal for your climate zone, consider growing bulbs in containers, where you can provide for specific needs, and as annuals.
No matter what type of bulb you’re growing or where you’re growing it, the basic instructions for getting bulbs into the ground are much the same.
 

5 Steps To Grow Flower Bulbs

Fall is the best time to plant the majority of spring- and summer-blooming bulbs, although some can handle being planted at other times of the year.
  1. Choose a spot in your garden
  2. Determine the required depth for the flower bulb
  3. Plan your layout before you start
  4. Dig holes with a a bulb planter
  5. Fertilize and water the newly planted bulbs  

Flowering Bulbs For All Seasons

Each type of flower bulb blooms at a particular time of year and has its own proper planting time. If you want to grow spring-blooming tulips, daffodils or alliums, the bulbs need to be planted in the fall for flowers the next spring. Summer-blooming bulbs, such as dahlias, calla lilies and gladiolas are planted in spring for flowers in summer and fall. Amaryllis and paperwhite bulbs are planted in early winter for indoor flowers in midwinter. Flowering bulbs can provide color, fragrance and beauty almost every month of the year.
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