White Spring Flowers From Bulbs

Pastel colors, including yellow, pink and white. In fact, they'll do it 6 or 8 times during spring, summer and fall! After a dry period, you get some soaking rain, and then when the sun comes out the next day, there they are adding brilliant color wherever...

Four O'Clocks tolerate average-to-poor soils beautifully, making them a favorite for sun and part-sun sites that haven't gotten much attention in the past. Four O'Clocks, sometimes called 'Marvel of Peru', are low-growing, bushy plants with flowers that...

Each cluster of bell-shaped blooms in this Gloxinia Mix struts its stuff for up to ten weeks! With a mix of vibrant purple, magenta, and white-edged bicolor blooms, this spring-planted tuber is suited to pots and borders alike.

The largest of the newly formed bulbs was as big as the original when first planted. From a gardener who's grown it: 'I decided to grow the Peruvian Daffodil for myself. In less than two weeks, the bulb produced plenty of healthy leaves and started to...

A close relative of the iris, these 3-6" wide blooms appear on straight, green blades. Tiger Flowers, also known as Mexican Shellflowers, produce 3-petaled, low-growing blooms in a mix of vibrant colors, with striking spotted centers.

I have small trellises and plant stakes to help them stand and they are so unique as the blooms develop. From a gardener who's grown it: 'I was given some gloriosa tubers two years ago.

Overall, hardy bulbs can remain in the ground during the winter in United States Department of Agriculture zone 8 and above. Bulbs and their counterparts - tubers, rhizomes and corms - enhance the landscape with a variety of form, texture and color.

I also found a few crocus blossoms that had remained unscathed, but it was late in the day and they had already closed for the night. I admit that this feeling may sound a bit fussy, but I'm a senior citizen now, and old garden duffers like me are allowed...

This can be labor-intensive if you have extensive beds, as the mulch has to be removed once temperatures warm up, but it can definitely preserve your blooms! Just be sure to use "clean" straw without weeds or seeds, or your bulbs will be competing with...

The pinwheeled blooms of 'Pennhill Watermelon' Dinner Plate Dahlia are frilly and feminine and oh so fabulous! The pink-a-licious petals twist and twirl, lending a ruffled look to this enormous bloom.

Be sure the bulbs are about half into the planting medium, with the top half sticking up in the clear. The same "magic" happens with these narcissus--bloom takes a bit longer, but the flowers are bigger, with golden yellow petals and brilliant orange...

The always-double flowers are up to 8", sometimes a whopping 10" across, so the name makes sense. There are other groups such as 'Ball Dahlias' and 'Pom Pom Dahlias' with spherical blooms, 'Colarette Dahlias' with uneven rows of petals creating a 'collar'...

Your bulb will produce several flowers. Amaryllis How-To: Ever grown an amaryllis inside the house? Planting Amaryllis: Choose a standard size flower pot, so the large bulb has approx.

In a new or established wildflower meadow, the wildflower plants grow up around the daffodils hiding the fading foliage, so there's no work to do. A real dazzler trumpet daffodil in bloom.

Shades of fuschia, berry red and white paint each petal differently making each bloom unique. Single Late Tulip Flaming Club produces five or more flowers per stem. Every bulb you plant grows a beautiful bouquet of tulips to enjoy either in the garden,...

Experienced gardeners plant these giant Alliums in groups of several bulbs, set very close together. (The word, Allium, means 'onion' in Latin.) Many Allium species are native to Iran, where many tulips also originate, and the edible Alliums have been...

Easy to plant, great in a vase! (Iris hollandica) A true rainbow of beautiful combinations. Dutch Irises are the ones you always see in fabulous spring flower arrangements. Not to be confused with the even larger bearded or German iris that bloom in late...

Then the huge flowers keep coming until frost. Dahlias are native to Mexico, but there's about as much resemblance between the original and the Dutch hybrids as there is between an old toy car and a brand new Mercedes.

As you can see, they come in both solids and bi-colors. Types of Dahlias. They stay short, and are perfect for pots or borders. These tubers produce a magnificent color combination accented by thick, healthy foliage and sturdy stems.

Floating 10-12" above the ground on fern-like foliage, anemones are deer-resistant and make their homes in shade and part shade areas. Be sure it's never too hot, and never too dry.

With some shade, the flowers will last longer than in full sun. The rarest color in flowers makes this hyacinth a stunner. But its the hyacinths that bring the perfume. Many gardeners think they look best in close groups of 3, 5 or more.

Ideal in window boxes, containers or shady beds, plant these colorful beauties to revive dark areas. Scarlet tuberous begonias provide upright color and are grown for their showy doubled petaled flowers.

Purple and orange is a perfect combination to create a show stopping display. Harvest Mix tulips emerge in late spring and offer large colorful blooms on sturdy stems. With stems as long as 20 -24”, the stem length makes these tulips a great cutting...

Each stem produces numerous blooms and the easy-to-grow bulbs bloom just weeks after planting. Almost instantly, the bulbs will sprout, and in just 6-10 weeks, you'll have a flurry of fragrant daffodils right there on the coffee table.

With red, orange and yellow sprays of unfurling blooms, each flowerhead is a graceful piece of one-of-a-kind art. Crocosmia Mix brings a warm-toned blend of unique, hummingbird-attracting flowers on arching stems to the landscape.

They bloom early, are all the same height (shorter than later tulips), and the huge flowers open wide before they fade, almost like huge poppies. About the famous Emperor Tulips: Early in the 20th Century, a talented Dutch hybridizer named Lefeber worked...

Purple Shamrock is a mounding plant that boasts deep, almost black, shamrock-shaped foliage. (Oxalis triangularis) Its contrasting, delicate pink blooms put on a show all summer long! Perfect for containers or a sunny spot in the garden.