How to Choose the Right Bulbs for Your Spring Flower Garden

 


Article by: Linda Jenkinson

Choosing the right bulbs , Garden Makeover On A Budget involves more than just selecting colors , Growing Tea Herbs for Fun or Profit and cultivars. Timing, bulb , How to Reduce Pollution Using a Robotic Lawn Mower size, and most importantly, bulb , How Vacuum Formed Molds Are Made health are equally significant factors in designing your spring garden. , Selecting the Right Roses for Your

Before purchasing any bulbs, , How Vacuum Formed Molds Are Made know the differences in bulb , Abatement Failure and Aborting Protocols types. Along with true bulbs, , Landscape Problems - Things To Look Out For several types of flowers, , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden sold as bulbs, , Using Snow Roof Rakes grow , Abatement Failure and Aborting Protocols from the underground stem growth of rhizomes, tubers, and corms.
  • True bulbs , Viburnum are rounded, self-sufficient, underground storage organs. True bulbs , Landscape Problems - Things To Look Out For are an incubator for a flower , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 5) Plant Growth bud embryo already inside. , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden
  • Many perennial flowers , Using Snow Roof Rakes grow from tubers, which are flat , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner underground stems that store food , Garden Makeover On A Budget and plant , Introducting KOI-Cam! energy.
  • Corms are thick underground stems that produce the new roots, , Tomatoes: History, Origin, Facts... or Fiction? leaves and flowers , Choosing Healthy Plants for Your Garden of their cultivars.
  • Rhizomes are modified plant , Sprucing Up Your Garden With Solar stems that grow , Chickens in Your Backyard for Fun or Profit horizontally under the surface of the soil. , Landscape Problems - Things To Look Out For New growth emerges from several different points along each rhizome.
Bulb Health

The first part in selecting healthy , Outdoor Furniture: Exploring the Benefits of Teak bulbs is knowing the bulb , Outdoor Furniture: Exploring the Benefits of Teak parts.
  1. The tunic of a bulb , Texas Drought Well Documented in the Past is the paper-like outside , Coneflower or Echinacea - the Best Thing in Your Bed of the bulb , Texas Drought Well Documented in the Past that protects it from damage and keeps it from drying out.
  2. The scale leaves are under the tunic and hold all the nutrients needed to grow , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner the cultivar.
  3. The first parts of the plant , Garden Makeover On A Budget to push through the soil , Selecting the Right Roses for Your Garden are the immature leaves, closely followed (or so we hope) by the flower , Bird Feeders: Look Who's Coming to Dinner bud and the stem.
  5. The roots , Selecting the Right Roses for Your Garden of bulb , Coneflower or Echinacea - the Best Thing in Your Bed cultivars grow , Zucchini: A Power House of Nutrition from the basal plate, which lies at the bottom of each bulb. , Snow Blowers


    6. Healthy bulbs , 3 Hillside Landscaping Tips For A Beautiful And Healthy Garden are firm, well rounded, and heavy for their size. Although bulbs , Wicker Patio Furniture - Buying and Maintenance Tips come in a range of colors, , Shed Kits some even with distinctive patterns, color , Shed Kits should be uniform with no dark patches or light , To Salt or Not to Salt Your Pond splotches. Discard any bulbs , Wicker Patio Furniture - Buying and Maintenance Tips with weak spots or spongy area, which are signs of rot caused by disease , How Vacuum Formed Molds Are Made or other damage.

    Bulb Size

    A double-edged tip , Flowers For U for selecting bulbs , How Vacuum Formed Molds Are Made is "the bigger the bulb, , The Flower Garden in August the bigger the bloom".

    First, it helps you select cultivars and decide where to place , Safe Pest Control Tips them in your spring , How Vacuum Formed Molds Are Made flower garden. , Caring For Bamboo For instance, crocus and anemone bulbs , Tips about Flower Care are tiny imps that beg a front row or outside , Choosing Healthy Plants for Your Garden border seat, while giant tulip , Shed Kits or daffodil bulbs , Wicker Patio Furniture - Buying and Maintenance Tips stand tall in back rows or keep watch over the center of your garden. , 3 Hillside Landscaping Tips For A Beautiful And Healthy Second, larger bulbs, , Snow Blowers within a particular cultivar, are generally more robust than smaller bulbs , Outdoor Furniture: Exploring the Benefits of Teak and produce stronger, healthier plants , Shed Kits and blooms.

    Timing

    When choosing bulbs , Bird Feeders: Look Who's Coming to Dinner for a spring , Compost Tumblers - Gardeners Love Them flower garden, , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner consider both when they need to be planted as well as when you want them to appear. Most spring , 3 Hillside Landscaping Tips For A Beautiful And Healthy Garden bulbs need to be planted in late summer , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner or autumn. , Sprucing Up Your Garden With Solar However, the reasons for the timing in planting spring , Abatement Failure and Aborting Protocols bulbs usually aren't relative to when the bulbs , Using Snow Roof Rakes sprout in the spring. , Bird Feeders: Look Who's Coming to Dinner Rather, bulbs , New Uses For Old Plants usually need to be planted when it is cool enough to keep them from sprouting, but warm enough to allow roots , Landscape Problems - Things To Look Out For to become established before winter. , 3 Hillside Landscaping Tips For A Beautiful And Healthy Garden

    All spring , FREE: How You Can Make a Hypertufa Flowerpot bulbs need a cool weather , Sprucing Up Your Garden With Solar rest period below 50°F in order to sprout successfully. If your climate , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden is warm, you'll need to provide them with a simulated winter , Selecting the Right Roses for Your Garden before planting them.

    "¢ Tulips "” 14 weeks
    "¢ Hyacinths "” 12 weeks
    "¢ Snowdrops and scilla "” 6 weeks
    "¢ Crocus "” 4 weeks

    Although crocuses and windflowers are tiny, they are brave little imps and often the first heralds of spring. , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner Generally, they'll be followed by smaller tulip , Choosing Healthy Plants for Your Garden cultivars and narcissus. Still, even some of the larger daffodils and giant tulip , How to Decorate your Outdoor Space without Breaking the Bank hybrids may surprise you with an early appearance.

    The best way to try to synchronize bulb , Landscape Problems - Things To Look Out For growth with your garden , Growing Tea Herbs for Fun or Profit plan is to check the growth patterns of each individual cultivar before purchasing and planting the bulbs. , Snow Blowers
    Linda is an enthusiastic gardener, researcher and author of  http://www.gardening-guides.com  at this site you find heaps of information , A Touch of Feng Shui in the Garden and the solution to most gardening , Tulip Bulbs - Fall is the Time to Prepare the Perfect Spring Flower Garden issues. She did a lot of work on our extensive "How To" section.

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