Flower bulbs add life to the garden

Gardengates | Mar 10, 2010 |

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Flower bulbs add life to the garden.

Because bulbs store energy in the swollen root, much of the year the plants are dormant. This means this is a whole category of garden flower that can easily be overlooked at planting time. Yet bulbs produce some of the showiest blooms in the garden and can add life to the garden when other annuals and perennials are still in winter sleep or simply looking dull.

Small bulbs can grow into large colonies and carpet hillsides, naturalize into lawns, edge gardens or burst into bloom between out-of-flower neighboring plants. Here is a video of some early, low-growing bulbs that are coming into bloom in late winter.

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There are so many bulbs you can design into the landscape garden. You can choose from low-growers, bouquets of color or even towering giants. Some have showy foliage. Some magnificent flowers. Some bulbs have unusual forms or flowers. If you plant bulbs at different times of the year you can choreograph your blooms to add life to the garden throughout your growing season. Feel free to tuck them between other plants so you can hide their spent blooms and dying foliage when they finish blooming. And early blooming bulbs naturalized at the edges of your lawn will have finished displaying their flowers by the time the lawn needs mowing.

So keep in mind using flower bulbs to add life to your garden. Most are easy to grow and bulbs come in an amazing assortment of colors, forms and growth habits so you can work them into almost any design.