Direct Bulbs Gardening Blog

Well, the Spring bulbs are almost over and flowering is almost at an end.  We have just a few Alliums left with a splash of purple around the garden however our Summer bulbs have literally just started to make an appearance.

We have 2 varieties of lily just coming through, Montenegro (left) and Tigrinium.

We still have an awful lot of bulbs which are still in early stages  - all the dahlias are doing well (as long as we keep the slugs at bay) as well as the begonias.

Our border is also becoming much more established.  The planting pots directly into the ground theory has worked really well, as it kept it much more tidy.  As soon as the pots had finished flowering, they were removed so there was no untidy dying foliage around and we just replaced them with newly planted containers.  We now have several varieties of dahlias in there at present and they will provide a stunning display right through to the first frosts of Autumn when they start to flower.

Well at last, despite the amazingly changeable weather we have been having, we have a fantastic display of spring flowering bulbs. These tulips below are a variety called Foxtrot and are a lovely baby pink colour. We have them in a pot on the patio and along with the other varieties such as Sir Winston Churchill and Candy Club, they brighten up the garden when the sun decides to shine!

The border has also blossomed with colour with my blue and white them coming through. Here  you can see muscari, chinodoxia and miniature daffodils.

Some of our other pots are shown below. Below is Tulip Apricot Impression and Muscari Latifolium, a fantastic bicolour variety. 

My other favourite pots are these below. I themed them blue and white as these colours are my favourite.

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