Seasonal Color

A spring burst of Seasonal Color for Easter is what this bed provided this year. Last year this extensive and large landscaped bed underwent a complete transformation during a septic system install during which we planted masses of daffodil bulbs for Spring Seasonal Color. These bulbs planted in organic soil mediums provided a spectacular display of bright colors and hues.

When naturalized spring bulb flowers come up and bloom each spring, you begin to think of them as more than seasonal markers. You wait for them. They come back as “friends.” Spring-blooming bulb flowers – including daffodils, species tulips, grape hyacinths, crocus, scilla, and more – can be planted to naturalize in beds providing a magnficent display of color year after year.

There’s nothing quite so welcome after a long, bleak winter as small crocuses pushing up through the newly thawed earth, bright yellow daffodils defying late frosts, or proud tulips bursting forth throwing living rainbows across the sleeping landscape. And all of these delightful harbingers of spring (plus many more) can reward any gardener who plants those remarkable storehouses of beauty: flowering bulbs.

These thick, modified stems or roots (the group actually comprises corms, tubers, tuberous roots, and rhizomes as well as true bulbs) allow their plants to be food self-sufficient while the feeder roots have time to develop. Therefore, even no-luck gardeners who try growing bulbs can to produce a beautiful flower crop at least for one season. However, if you take the time to cultivate bulbs with care, you’ll be delighted at the wonderful ease with which you can make your yard continue to burst forth in ever-multiplying blooms, year after year.