Time to Plan Your Spring Garden
With some good planning, you can have spring bulbs blooming in your garden from late March right through till June. Early, mid-season and late season bulbs planted now will bring you colour and interest throughout next spring.
What would early spring be without crocuses? To me, they are the true harbinger of spring with their sunny faces of yellow, white, lilac and purple. Plant them in clusters of 5-7 to create impact. These crocuses are planted under a magnolia which gets no sun later on in the season but is perfect for early spring bulbs like crocuses, scilla and snowdrops.
A carpet of scilla on a warm sunny morning tells you spring is on it's way. Plant them so they naturalize under a tree or in a shady spot which will be covered by hosts later on in the season.
Grape hyacinths or muscari are a fast multiplying little bulb, perfect for a border like this one in my birdbath garden. Along with daffodils and tulips, they create a gorgeous show mid-season. I just love the yellow daffodils with the dark purple muscari.
Of course, you can't think of spring bulbs without thinking of tulips. And with some careful planning you can have tulips from the earliest of spring (species tulips) right through till late spring (peony tulip varieties). But the main blooming period is mid-season - here you'll get the fullest variety of tulips such as Queen of the Nile (dark purple), Golden Oxford (classic yellow), Spring Green (white with green veining) and the Darwin series.
Mid-season daffodils provide colour throughout late April and into mid-May. Choose varieties like King Alfred, Mount Hood and Tete-a-Tete for a variety of colour, sizes and blooming periods.
Late season bulbs like alliums and anemones bring an added bonus to a late May garden just as the perennials are taking over.
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I am still in denial that Fall is coming, even though the days are shorter and the garden is winding down!
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The first time I have found out your purple Crocuses.
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