#floweringbulbs

[plantogallery]

[easterncurvegarden]

It’s bulb-planting time at Dalston Curve Garden! Every Autumn we plant thousands of bulbs to bring colour and scent and nectar for bees in the Spring. After several weeks of planning and getting very excited about our choices, we started the first of our planting sessions with our hard-working volunteers early in September. We will continue with this marathon task every week until the end of November. 

We try to have flowering bulbs popping up in the Garden every month from January until the end of May and we also fill containers for inspiration, even if you are limited to a window-box. 

We wrote about some of our favourite bulbs in a previous post earlier this year but we can’t get enough of Sandra Keating’s beautiful photos, so if you are still planning to plant your own bulbs, here are more to inspire you. You can continue to plant right through until the end of November or even later, if the weather is not too cold and wet.  

One of our favourites is Leucojum aestivum ‘Gravetye Giant’, Summer Snowflake, which last year we planted under trees, on banks and in beds.  

We loved our continuous display of Narcissi (Daffodils) every month from February until early May with varieties ‘Pipit’, ‘Tete a Tete’ ‘Thalia’ ‘Hawera’ ‘Pheasant’s Eye’ and ‘Baby Moon’ under trees, in beds and in pots, tins and boxes. 

Muscari latifolium (Grape Hyancinth) is always popular with bees and every May visitors and bees love the drifts of giant purple Allium ‘Purple Sensation’. 

‘Abu Hassan’ is one of our all time favourite tulips, but every year we also like to try out new varieties. We plant thousands of tulips in pots throughout November and will be sharing some of our other favourites in a blog post coming soon...!

[columbinellc]

Hello Snowdrops! Unseasonably warm weather may be fun but it worries me. Most bulbs will be fine, it’s the swelling buds of flowering woody plants that will likely get blasted this year. #horticulture #climatechange #snowdrops #galanthus #springinfebruary #gardening #professionalhorticulturist #gardendesign #floweringbulbs #latewinter

[easterncurvegarden]

We loved all the colour that our annual display of tulip brought to the Garden for so much longer than usual this year, because of the cold Spring. 

We’re sharing just a few of the late-flowering varieties here, including old favourites which we grow year after year, as well as introducing some that are new to us, like ‘Slawa’ and ‘Mariette’.

Many thanks to Alex Bogdan and Sandra Keating for their beautiful tulip photos, which feature these late varieties:

Photo 1: ‘Amber Glow’

Photo 2: ‘Mariette’ 

Photo 3: ‘Spring Green’

Photo 4 and 6: ‘Ballerina’

Photo 7: ‘Menton’

Photo 8: ‘Slawa’ (with ‘Acuminata’ and ‘Finola’ in background) 

Photo 9: ‘Amazing Parrot’

Photo 10: ‘Finola’ 

Thanks to the Garden volunteers who worked hard last Autumn planting hundreds of bulbs and to our Gardener Dean Young who has made sure that the ever-changing display of tulips and Spring flowering bulbs has looked stunning for so long.

[easterncurvegarden]

Late Flowering Tulips, May 2022

This year’s display of tulips in containers at the Garden has been just glorious!

We always feel a little bit sad when the late-flowering varieties start to drop their last petals and we move all the pots and containers away until next year...

We’re cheering ourselves up by taking a moment to celebrate our tulips, thanks to Erola Arcalis and Alex Bogdan who have recorded them so beautifully in their photos.

The tulip varieties pictured here include: 

Tulip ‘Amazing Parrot ’ (frilly edges)

Tulip ‘Angelique’ (sugar pink)

Tulip ‘Ballerina’ (orange) 

Tulip ‘Dutch Dancer’ (Tomato Red)

Tulip ‘Menton’ (Sherbert Pink)

Tulip ‘Queen of the Night’

Tulip ‘Spring Green’

Thanks to the Garden volunteers who worked hard last Autumn to plant hundreds of Spring-flowering bulbs in the ground and in pots and containers, including tulips and to our Gardener Dean Young who has worked with the volunteers to keep this year’s every-changing display of Tulips looking stunning.

[wdcgardener]

Spring has sprung in my garden this week! The daffodil is ‘February Gold’ and made it just in time. 🌼#gardendc #flowerfriday #fridayflowers #flowers #floweringbulbs #dmv #picoftheday #nofilter (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaZ1NCQujVW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[davidwfloydart]

#springflowers #springtime #crocusflowers #floweringbulbs #naturebrilliance #rebirth #hopeishere #flowerphotography #flowerpower (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmrDHWJgnQrv6xt6q4cJpP71_6d-Us3X-5Jrw0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[somepinkflowers]

{{ oh sweet #paperwhites 🤍🤍🤍 just believing in #yourmagic 💫 makes this damp day doable 💕 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 My heart belongs to #flowers of every color 🌺🌸🌻🌹🌸🌸🌼🌼🌺🌸 #floweringbulbs 💕 #indoorblooms 🌸🤍 #onmykitchentable 🤍 #howichasethegloomyweather #winterinflorida 🌸 Do you garden on your kitchen table ?? (at Saint Augustine, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZMv_TrOh0C/?utm_medium=tumblr