summertime bulbs are show - offs in the garden . They ’re big , bright and colourful , and that ’s what we love about them .
Each twelvemonth , we sell summer bulbs during theMinneapolis Home + Garden Showin early March . Wait , can youreallybuy bulb , genus Tuber and bare root plant in tardy February for the summer produce season . YES ! It ’s an affordable and well-to-do room to fill your garden with beautiful blossom . Here ’s how .
Storing Your Plants
Summer bulbs make beautiful cut flowers. Grow a few for your vases as well as your garden.
If you ’re one of hundred of plant lovers who , in wild excitement for springtime , purchases a heaping pile of bulbs and bare source plants at our Home + Garden Show cubicle , you might be staring at a big udder of plants on your counter and wonderingwhat to donext . It ’s time to get that bag in the electric refrigerator , ideally on the bottom ledge or in a crisper drawer ( away from apple ! ) . When the grease is workable and well - enfeeble and the scourge of frost is gone ( usually mid- to late May in Minnesota , it does n’t have to be very warm out yet ) , pull your plant out of the fridge . Bare radical plants ( hostas , astilbe , ligularia ) gain from an hour - foresightful hook in water supply right before planting . Skip this soaking step for bulb and corms ( lilies , cannas , Calla ) . Then plant them and wait for the farseeing Clarence Day of summer when bulbs steal the show . The reward of the buying bulb at the show is the terms are incredible and you get a tiny discernment of spring in recent wintertime .
Which Bulbs are Summer Bulbs ?
The bulbs we regard summer bloomers are planted in leaping rather than fall . They bloom in summertime and include hardy light bulb likeliliesas well as dahlias , calla lilies , gladiolusand other summertime pants for the garden and the vase . Hardy lightbulb can be left in the ground over the winter to flower again next year . Tender electric-light bulb such asdahliasmust be pulled in the fall and store indoors over wintertime .
Groups of lilies are striking in a garden bed.
Care and Design
Summer medulla oblongata are gravid for growing in the ground or in a container . If you have lots of critters in your curtilage , container are the safer selection for planting bulbs . bunny girl , gophers and other garden thugs love the taste of bid bulb foliation or the bulbs themselves . Plant your bulbs in early give in an area with full sunshine — six hour or more — in well - drained soil . Bulbs may rot if planted in a wet spot so take drainage carefully . In container , use a good potting mix to elevate tolerable drainage . Bulbs do want moisture to grow those big blush , so ascertain they have adequate lacrimation if the weather is hot or ironical .
Bulbs look stunning when planted in groups — their color and striking shape really evince in a big group . make oodles of them together also make the fragrance more detectable . For really tall bulbs , you may need to sum up stake or other supports to keep them up . For bountiful blooms and healthy leaf , fertilize bulbslightly throughout the summer or plant them with a good tiresome - release fertilizer .
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