How to Choose the Right Bulbs for Your Spring Flower Garden

 


Article by: Linda Jenkinson

Choosing the right bulbs , Garden Ponds involves more than just selecting colors , Design Your Own Rose Garden and cultivars. Timing, bulb , Take Another Look at Those Wild Surreptitious Weeds size, and most importantly, bulb , Tips On Caring For Your Cut Flowers health are equally significant factors in designing your spring garden. , Design Your Own Rose

Before purchasing any bulbs, , Wildlife in Winter Ponds know the differences in bulb , Books About Landscaping types. Along with true bulbs, , A Guide for Servicing Your Chainsaw several types of flowers, , Design Your Own Rose Garden sold as bulbs, , Landscape Design - Well Balanced Home Landscaping grow , Recycling Carwash Wash Water for Landscape and Toilets from the underground stem growth of rhizomes, tubers, and corms.
  • True bulbs , Wild Flower Garden - Yours to Design and Plan are rounded, self-sufficient, underground storage organs. True bulbs , Wildlife in Winter Ponds are an incubator for a flower , Do You Know About A Bamboo Orchid bud embryo already inside. , How To Design And Build A Fish Pond
  • Many perennial flowers , Take Another Look at Those Wild Surreptitious Weeds grow from tubers, which are flat , The Flower Drying Game - Part 1: Air, Sand, and Sources underground stems that store food , Gardening - Plumeria Plant Care and plant , Grey Water- Not Drinking Water- For Your Garden energy.
  • Corms are thick underground stems that produce the new roots, , Bottle Gardening or Terrarium - Design and Maintenance leaves and flowers , Tips on Outdoor Patio Heaters of their cultivars.
  • Rhizomes are modified plant , Tips on Outdoor Patio Heaters stems that grow , How To Design And Build A Fish Pond horizontally under the surface of the soil. , Buying or Building Your Own Water Fountain New growth emerges from several different points along each rhizome.
Bulb Health

The first part in selecting healthy , Attracting Birds To Your Garden bulbs is knowing the bulb , Landscape Design - Well Balanced Home Landscaping parts.
  1. The tunic of a bulb , Shade Gardening When You Have No Shade is the paper-like outside , Growing African Violets in Natural Light of the bulb , Lawnmower Maintenance Tips That Help Produce The Best Lawns 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 , Gardening - Plumeria Plant Care the cultivar.
  3. The first parts of the plant , Landscape Wallpaper to push through the soil , What Type of Gazebo is Right for You? Top Questions You Need to Ask are the immature leaves, closely followed (or so we hope) by the flower , A Guide To Japanese Gardens bud and the stem.
  5. The roots , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner of bulb , Buying or Building Your Own Water Fountain cultivars grow , Home and Garden Decor from the basal plate, which lies at the bottom of each bulb. , Garden Success in Southcentral Alaska Part 1 of 3


    6. Healthy bulbs , Growing African Violets in Natural Light are firm, well rounded, and heavy for their size. Although bulbs , Growing African Violets in Natural Light come in a range of colors, , Tips on Outdoor Patio Heaters some even with distinctive patterns, color , Growing African Violets in Natural Light should be uniform with no dark patches or light , Controlling Spider Mites splotches. Discard any bulbs , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm with weak spots or spongy area, which are signs of rot caused by disease , Spruce Budworm or other damage.

    Bulb Size

    A double-edged tip , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner for selecting bulbs , Home and Garden Decor is "the bigger the bulb, , Garden Ponds the bigger the bloom"Âť.

    First, it helps you select cultivars and decide where to place , Tips on Outdoor Patio Heaters them in your spring , Landscape Design - Well Balanced Home Landscaping flower garden. , The Flower Drying Game - Part 1: Air, Sand, and Sources For instance, crocus and anemone bulbs , Patio Heaters: A Way To A Comfortable Outdoor Gatherings are tiny imps that beg a front row or outside , Grey Water- Not Drinking Water- For Your Garden border seat, while giant tulip , Bottle Gardening or Terrarium - Design and Maintenance or daffodil bulbs , Fountains of Refreshment stand tall in back rows or keep watch over the center of your garden. , Tips for Buying Plants Online Second, larger bulbs, , Winterizing Your Roses within a particular cultivar, are generally more robust than smaller bulbs , Multi Purpose Tree – Sugar Palm and produce stronger, healthier plants , Gardening - Plumeria Care and blooms.

    Timing

    When choosing bulbs , To Repot - or Not! for a spring , Take Another Look at Those Wild Surreptitious Weeds flower garden, , Tips on Outdoor Patio Heaters consider both when they need to be planted as well as when you want them to appear. Most spring , What Type of Gazebo is Right for You? Top Questions You Need to Ask bulbs need to be planted in late summer , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner or autumn. , Tips for Buying Plants Online However, the reasons for the timing in planting spring , Controlling Spider Mites bulbs usually aren't relative to when the bulbs , Home and Garden Decor sprout in the spring. , Garden Success in Southcentral Alaska Part 1 of 3 Rather, bulbs , Recycling Carwash Wash Water for Landscape and Toilets usually need to be planted when it is cool enough to keep them from sprouting, but warm enough to allow roots , Patio Heaters: A Way To A Comfortable Outdoor Gatherings to become established before winter. , Teak Furniture - The Proper Way to Care For & Clean It

    All spring , Growing African Violets in Natural Light bulbs need a cool weather , Garden Ponds rest period below 50°F in order to sprout successfully. If your climate , How to Prune Lilac Shrubs is warm, you'll need to provide them with a simulated winter , Gardening - Plumeria Plant Care 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. , Starting A Container Garden Generally, they'll be followed by smaller tulip , Teak Furniture - The Proper Way to Care For & Clean It cultivars and narcissus. Still, even some of the larger daffodils and giant tulip , Wood Fences: Installing Wood Fences for the Homeowner hybrids may surprise you with an early appearance.

    The best way to try to synchronize bulb , Books About Landscaping growth with your garden , The Flower Drying Game - Part 1: Air, Sand, and Sources plan is to check the growth patterns of each individual cultivar before purchasing and planting the bulbs. , A Guide for Servicing Your Chainsaw
    Linda is an enthusiastic gardener, researcher and author of  http://www.gardening-guides.com  at this site you find heaps of information , Winterizing Your Roses and the solution to most gardening , Grey Water- Not Drinking Water- For Your Garden issues. She did a lot of work on our extensive "How To" section.

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