Plant summer bulbs for quick beautiful results!
Summer bulbs release your creativity and get you eager to add colour to your outdoor environment! For quick beautiful results, use summer bulbs. They are available everywhere, and you can choose from a wide range of colours: from pure white to red, from orange to deep purple. The advantage of these bulb flowers is that they are already bursting with their own supply of nutrients. That makes gardening a snap.
Four steps to enjoying summer bulbs
Everyone’s acquainted with them, right? Calla lilies, dahlias and lilies: summer bulbs that light up your garden with gorgeous flowers. Besides these stars of the show, there are also some mysterious strangers like Eucomis and Ixia: interesting, too, and really worth getting to know. Plant all of these unique little jewels in the spring to make your garden glow with colour all summer long. How to do this? It’s easy – just follow the four steps.
The Calla Lily: summer bulb of the year
The Calla Lily has been named the summer bulb of 2015. But this is no wonder when you consider that ‘calla’ means ‘beautiful’ in Greek. Its many colours and elegant shapes make it a beauty in the garden and on the patio.
Bulbs that naturalise make for ‘easy gardening’
Anyone who still doubts the virtues of flower bulbs will be glad to hear about bulbs that naturalise. Bulbs that naturalise make gardening a snap. Once planted, there’s nothing left to do: these bulbs can stay right where they are and produce flowers year after year. What could be better? Well, you even get more flowers year after year! This is because bulbs produce new little bulbs, and many even produce seeds. It’s like getting freebies for your garden.
The art of combining: mix ‘n match!
Imagine this: a picturesque spring border with eye-catching combinations of flower bulbs. Instead of straight little rows, create scenes of elegant artistry! Flower bulbs planted in November mean a springtime full of breathtaking border combinations: paintings bursting with patterns of colour and shape.
Underground treasures…
If you want to enjoy the earliest spring-flowering bulbs in your garden, the time to plant them is autumn.
A contemporary bulb garden
Keys to the contemporary garden are the concepts of simplicity and balance.
Bulb flowers attract buzzing bees and beautiful butterflies
Butterflies and bees add that little extra touch to our enjoyment of life in the garden. And butterflies and bees also tell us something interesting about the place where they are found. If you see a butterfly fluttering around in your garden, this is a good sign that your garden is doing its part in the balance of nature. And that’s nice to know! Bulb flowers are wonderful for attracting these beneficial insects.
Fun in the garden with children
Gardening teaches children useful skills and it’s good for their personal development. Besides that, it gives them a chance to do things outdoors and get their hands in the earth. They see the natural world changing with the seasons and can experience the joy of seeing the results of their own work. Planting bulbs is a little gardening job that’s both fun and easy!
A gift of flowers for later
What could be nicer than a surprise gift? Give yourself a nice little gift for later: while getting your garden or terrace ready for winter, plant some beautiful flower bulbs. By planting bulbs in September, their wonderful flowers in a wide range of colours will give you a delightful surprise next spring. By that time, you probably will have forgotten you planted them. That doesn’t matter, though, because you’ll only truly be surprised unless you suddenly think, ‘Oh, of course! Those were the ones I planted back then. And now I’m enjoying that gift to myself.’
