Last year I planted up some Spring flowering bulbs in the garden for the first time, and I was so pleased I did. The Spring is a wonderful time of the year as you’ve got through the cold and wet Winter, having some lovely times and maybe even some fun in the snow. But Spring brings new life, a bit of warmth, and when the garden starts to slowly come alive again.
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You’re starting to notice little shoots appearing on the trees, flowers reappearing after they died down over the Winter and it brings a bit of excitement for the warmer months ahead. This year I’m planning on planting more Spring flowering bulbs, and now is the perfect time to start buying them and getting ready to plant them.
Start having a look around for tulip bulbs for sale and you will be amazed by the selection of Tulip bulbs you can buy. There are all different shapes of flower heads, and colours to suit your garden.
From simple Tulip heads, but in an array of colours to pick from
A fringed Tulip head with beautiful frilly edges to them.
To Lily flower looking Tulips in striking pinks and greens
Or beautiful classic white with star-shaped flowers
There are so many to pick from and I have my eye on the ones that look like Tulip ice creams this year from Dutch Grown. They sell dutch tulip bulbs directly from Holland and have been running their family business since 1882, with much success and have built up a stunning range of bulbs to bring a shot of colour into our gardens this Spring.
When To Plant Your Tulip Bulbs?
Get ordering your bulbs now and you can keep them stored in a well ventilated dry space until you’re ready to plant them. Tulips like the cold soil, but you don’t want to plant them when the soil has frozen. So start planting your bulbs around October-November and don’t overwater them. Dutch Grown have some great planting guides on their website if you want to learn more about Tulips.
How To Plant Your Tulip Bulbs
You need to dig down around 15cm depth, and I like to plant collections of bulbs together rather than one Tulip dotted about on its own. You can group them up but make sure they are 12-15cm spaced apart. I group in 3’s or 5’s but you never know they might not all come up!
If you research when you’re Tulips flower you can spread out the flowering season of your Tulips throughout the Spring. Some will come up early, and you can plant ones that come up later on in the Spring so you can have another batch of Spring colours later on.
If you have some garden pots or large garden planters, you could fill up a plant pot with bulbs and come to the Spring you will have a planter full of colour. There is a large range of planters over at hpotter.com to pick from, these can be moved then to a place you want and could even move them to a place you can see from the house window.
What To Do With Tulips Once They’ve Finished Flowering?
Once your Tulips have stopped flowering, just deadhead them but leave all the leaves on to go yellow. This allows all the nutrients to go back into the bulbs, and with any luck, you might get the bulbs coming back again next year. I am hoping some of mine come back this year, but I’m adding new ones in as well to make sure I get that shot of Spring colour.
What I love about planning Spring bulbs in the Autumn is that I can dig them down under all the summer flowering plants now, and these will all die back over the winter and will leave my flower planters looking very empty. Tulips need sunshine and love the heat of the Spring sunshine to warm them up, so as the summer flowers have gone and not yet emerging, but my Spring bulbs will have all the access to sunshine and will bloom well. Then when they’ve finished flowering, my Summer flowers will be springing into action ready to give me the next lot of flowers!
Tulips For Pots
You can even plant your Tulips in pots for some colour for spring if you don’t have any flower beds, so you can still get that lovely shot of Spring colour in your garden space without having much room.
I hope I have insprired you to order some Tullips this Autumn ready to give your garden a splash of colour next Spring which is bound to put a smile on your face when they appear. My next job for spring is to look at getting the grass in much better condition after the winter, racking out the old dead grass, adding some top soil, feeding, and then using a reel mower to cut it nicely and using this reel mowers buyer’s guide.
12 Comments
I really love pinks and purples in gardens. Your garden is really beautiful
Thank you, I am please I’ve stuck to a colour theme, pulls all the garden together
I love seeing our garden in bloom. Our roses are still going strong thanks to the mild weather. I love tulips too
I know I can’t believe the roses are still out too!
It’s so lovely to see colourful gardens when I go on my walks during spring. I love tulips they’re so pretty. I think we could do with more in the garden.
You’re be so happy to see them next year when they start flowering!
Tulips are just so pretty. I am really loving those frayed tulips, not seen them before.
All rough around the edges, but lovely aren’t they!
I do love tulips and love when they start to bloom in the garden, you can get so many different types and colours they are definitely a flower of choice in our garden
It’s wonderful when they all start coming out isn’t it, start of spring and warmer months
I love your collection of tulips, especially that purple fringed one. Tulips don’t do well where I live but daffodils do and I have a couple of bags of bulbs to plant this week.
Oh that will be so nice to have blooming next spring