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Tempting Choices In addition to tulips and daffodils, you'll also want to plant other exotic Dutch bulbs, such as spring-flowering scilla, puschkinia, muscari, fritillaria, allium, camassia, and eremurus. Your local climate will affect which bulbs you choose to plant. Not all bulbs have the same cold requirements. Ask your bulb supplier to recommend the flower bulbs that do well in your area. Climate zone maps can be found in most gardening books and magazines. Spring-flowering bulbs offer a wide variety of colors, heights and flowering periods. Let your imagination run wild, easy-to-grow bulbs allow you to concentrate on garden design. All you really need to learn about planning your garden is written on the package, or available from your bulb supplier. What you need to know is: the color of the flower what months it will bloom how high it will grow what months to plant, and how deep to plant By cutting out pictures from mail-order catalogues or booklets picked up at your local garden center, you can plan your dream garden on paper right in your own living room! There are just three factors to consider: color, plant height, and flowering time These are the keys to colorful and creative plantings around your home. Here are some professional planting tips: Plant low-growing bulbs, such as grape hyacinths, in front taller flowers, such as tulips, Always plant bulbs in groups, either in small clusters or large beds, a single flower standing alone is not very dramatic, Plant scattered clusters of early-flowering bulbs, such as crocus, throughout your lawn to achieve a "natural" look, Plant clusters of daffodils around the woodpile, or in a meadow area that is not mowed often. These will add a colorful accent to your landscape in spring and, if left on their own to wilt away, will return year after year. Well-selected and mature plantings of naturalized bulbs can add value to your home, just as mature trees and shrubs do, Experiment. You know better than the experts what flowers you fancy. Pick a flower bulb variety on a whim and try a small planting. If it does well for you, add more next year. more… Bulb Uses Site Selection and Design Bulbs Planting Tips Flowers and the Facts of Life What is A Bulb? The Difference Between Bulbs, Corms, Tubers, Roots



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