You Can Get Flowers in Your Garden All Year Round by Growing Plants From Bulbs
Human beings have got a close association with bulbs, and indeed growing flowers from bulbs, stretching back to prehistoric times.
The story continues to unfold, as new varieties emerge regularly from an already vast selection of plants.
Up until recently most people would buy bulbs to fill in flower beds or edge a garden border, but today nearly half of the bulbs we buy are planted in containers, which is a place they're quite happy to grow as well.
Also, bulbs would be bought loose from garden centres, but with the increase in popularity they're now primarily sold in bags or sacks from high street stores or mail order companies, accompanied with colourful, informative packaging.
In spite of these changes in marketing, one thing - our buying pattern - has remained largely unchanged throughout the last century.
We still buy and plant bulbs mainly in the autumn months.
Although summer flowering varieties such as Gladioli, Lilies and Dahlia are growing in popularity, around 75% of all bulbs we buy are from the big four varieties; Narcissi, Tulip, Crocus and Hyacinth.
While it may seem a bit of a surprise that such a diverse group of plants as bulbous plants should be dominated by just four groups - imagine your garden shrubs or a herbaceous border being restricted to only four plants - there's a good reason for this.
Spring Colour! Crocuses, including Snowdrops, is without a doubt the plant to let us know about the imminent arrival of spring, and there are no other plants that will provide a show of colour in the months of April and May that Tulips and Narcissi (Daffodils) will.
Another reason for bulbs being so popular with gardeners would be their versatility and ease of cultivation.
Aside from your soil being waterlogged, hardly anything can go wrong with growing plants from bulbs.
All there is to do is to put them in a hole 2-3 times deeper than the size of the bulb, and replace the soil on top.
Job done! You don't need to worry about watering.
Hardly any sap-sucking pests or diseases will pose a threat to your bulbous plants.
You just need to sit back and enjoy a great spring show! Once the flowering is over, and the bulbs return to their dormant state, a quick tidy up will do, until they return to put on the show next year! Growing plants from bulbs, then, should be something every gardener can do with relative ease, though in some cases there's a bit more to it.
There are plenty of resources available, as well as great numbers of plants you can grow from bulbs in your garden, for a year round display of colour in your garden.
The story continues to unfold, as new varieties emerge regularly from an already vast selection of plants.
Up until recently most people would buy bulbs to fill in flower beds or edge a garden border, but today nearly half of the bulbs we buy are planted in containers, which is a place they're quite happy to grow as well.
Also, bulbs would be bought loose from garden centres, but with the increase in popularity they're now primarily sold in bags or sacks from high street stores or mail order companies, accompanied with colourful, informative packaging.
In spite of these changes in marketing, one thing - our buying pattern - has remained largely unchanged throughout the last century.
We still buy and plant bulbs mainly in the autumn months.
Although summer flowering varieties such as Gladioli, Lilies and Dahlia are growing in popularity, around 75% of all bulbs we buy are from the big four varieties; Narcissi, Tulip, Crocus and Hyacinth.
While it may seem a bit of a surprise that such a diverse group of plants as bulbous plants should be dominated by just four groups - imagine your garden shrubs or a herbaceous border being restricted to only four plants - there's a good reason for this.
Spring Colour! Crocuses, including Snowdrops, is without a doubt the plant to let us know about the imminent arrival of spring, and there are no other plants that will provide a show of colour in the months of April and May that Tulips and Narcissi (Daffodils) will.
Another reason for bulbs being so popular with gardeners would be their versatility and ease of cultivation.
Aside from your soil being waterlogged, hardly anything can go wrong with growing plants from bulbs.
All there is to do is to put them in a hole 2-3 times deeper than the size of the bulb, and replace the soil on top.
Job done! You don't need to worry about watering.
Hardly any sap-sucking pests or diseases will pose a threat to your bulbous plants.
You just need to sit back and enjoy a great spring show! Once the flowering is over, and the bulbs return to their dormant state, a quick tidy up will do, until they return to put on the show next year! Growing plants from bulbs, then, should be something every gardener can do with relative ease, though in some cases there's a bit more to it.
There are plenty of resources available, as well as great numbers of plants you can grow from bulbs in your garden, for a year round display of colour in your garden.
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