Garden Bulb Planting Time Is Near

Posted by admin on September 1, 2008

Now is the time to purchase those bulbs you want to plant this fall. Our nursery partners will hold
shipments if it’s still too warm in your gardening zone, but the specials and savings you can get on the best selection of bulbs is here. You can plant most bulbs right up until the first hard freeze, but these warm days are perfect for selecting where you have room for bulbs, or which garden corners will need which colors come spring or summer.

Here are some of our favorite garden bulb idea books for you. Of course, the illustrations are inspirational and the lists and varieties will keep dreaming in technicolor all winter long. But…. especially if you’re a new gardener, these books should be ordered now to help you when you’re planting your bulbs this fall. They are jammed with solid information about the care of bulbs, what you need to plant with them to get them off to a great start and so on. They also offer fresh design ideas we also think you’ll find very helpful.

	Bulbs The title says it all. Covering the basics for more than 300 bulb varieties from crocuses to bluebells, each with it’s own photo and tips on how to use it in your garden is a big job, well done in this book. Unique plant guides help make your selection job a little easier too.
	Bulb Expert When a first edition has a print run of 150,000, you know there’s something of value here for nearly every gardener. They take 200 bulbs and help you choose based on which blooms when, what soil types they need, which are best for naturalizing, which work indoors, and so on.
	Garden Bulbs for the South The “historic, neglected, and little-known warm-climate bulbs” are what are highlighted in Scott Ogden’s bestseller. There are more than 130varieties covered including rain lilies, oxblood lilies, crinums and gingers. Of course, the origins, species and culture of all your favorite cannas, cyclamens, grape hyacinths, irises and tulips that work best in these zones are also here.
	Buried Treasures: Finding and Growing the World’s Choicest Bulbs You may want to skim through this one for practical information on “rare” bulbs first, then dive into it on a long, cold winter’s night. It’s part spy novel, part travelogue, and all around great guide to the care and cultivation of most bulbs. The author spent decades seeking out and documenting the care and cultivation of bulbs all over the Soviet Republic and neighborhing states. His stories of how he found them can be woven in to your stories of how they came to be in your garden next summer.