MINNEAPOLIS — Spring bulbs are in every garden store right now and it’s time to get them in the ground!
With these planting style ideas from ColorBlends, you’ll find a design that fits your garden personality.
- Bedding: The bedding style of planting spring bulbs is a lot of bulbs in one area planted close together. The Arboretum display is an example of a bedding planting.
- Bouquet: Bulbs are planted in clusters amongst other plants, usually to bring early color to a perennial garden that blooms later in the season.
- Naturalized: Bulbs are scattered and planted in random fashion in a grassy area that is usually only minimally maintained and simply mowed after the bulbs have finished blooming. The bulbs are then allowed to spread naturally.
- Pocket: Bulbs are planted thickly in an open area to draw attention or provide a splash of color.
- Ribbon: Bulbs are planted in a thick line along the edge of a garden bed, hedge, sidewalk or wall.
- Serpentine: Bulbs form a thick, winding path usually through a grassy or wooded area.
- Sprinkled: Bulbs are planted individually amongst other plants to fill in bare spaces between perennials and give early season color.
Whatever your style, now is the time to get spring bulbs in the ground to enjoy after a long winter.