Bulbs can be a little confusing, especially when you thought they were all perennial and you start hearing terms like naturalize or perennialize. For the gardener, bulbs that will naturalize are those that will multiply and bloom for years in the same location. Traditionally, bulbs were naturalized in the lawn, but they work very well with groundcovers and perennials. In addition to selecting the right bulbs to naturalize, it is important to plant them in well-prepared soil in the right location. Many varieties of bulbs are actually good perennials, but not well suited to naturalize. These bulbs perennialize, living on for many years, but do not multiply very well. There are also hundreds of varieties of bulbs that are magnificent the first season and maybe a second, then they start to fade, but the show they put on makes them well worth planting.

Daffodils
Flower Record ;
Ice Follies
Professor Einstein
Salome
Barrett Browning
Cheerfulness
Yellow Cheerfulness
Flower Drift
Thalia
February Gold
Jet Fire
Geranium
Jonquilla
Cass
Carltonata
Pheasant Eye

Tulips
Species
Greiggii
Darwin Hybrids
Kaufmanniana
Fosteriana

Other Bulbs
Wood Hyacinths
Squill and Scilla
Muscari, Grape Hyacinths
Frittilaria meleagris, Guinea Hen Flower
Allium moly luteum
Allium roseum
Allium sphaerocephalon, Drumstick Allium
Chionodoxa, Glory of the Snow
Large Flowered Crocus
Species Crocus
Galanthus, Snowdrops
Camassia

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