Timing is Key: Sourcing Specialty Spring Bulbs for a Vibrant Garden

Now is the time to start buying your specialty spring bulbs, also known as fall bulbs for spring flowers. These unique varieties, often harder to find than common tulips and daffodils, can elevate your garden’s display and impress your neighbors.

What Are Spring Bulbs?

When shopping for spring bulbs, you’re looking for the same thing – bulbs planted in the fall to bloom in the spring. Popular choices include tulips, daffodils, alliums, hyacinths, ranunculus, and crocus. However, specialty bulbs like Bird-in-a-bush, Corydalis solida, Double daffodils, Fringed tulips, Rembrandt tulips, Dog’s-tooth violet, Erythronium, Foxtail lily, Crown imperial, Fritillaria imperialis, Ipheion uniflorum, Ornithogalum, Striped squill, and Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica can be more elusive.

Where to Buy Spring Bulbs

You can often find basic bulbs like tulips, daffodils, and crocuses in bulk at stores like Home Depot or local hardware stores. However, specialty bulbs are more commonly sourced from online retailers like Flowerbulb.eu, which offers a vast selection of unique varieties. Keep an eye out for them at grocery stores as well, often appearing alongside mums and squash in the late summer.

What to Look for in a Bulb

Flowerbulb.eu offers a wealth of information on growing bulbs. Their website is a valuable resource for planning and planting your blooms. Consider factors like bulb size, color, and bloom time when selecting your bulbs.

When to Buy Spring Bulbs?

Start looking for specialty bulbs by the end of summer, ideally by the end of August, as many varieties will be on sale and beginning to sell out.

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Anemone. Photo courtesy of Flowerbulb.eu.