Getting
flower bulbs to plant and grow is an fascinating experience that starts
in the fall and continues through the spring. Dutch flowering bulbs are
usually delivered to American ports by the month of September for fall
planting. Significant Dutch bulbs offerings contain Dutch Amaryllis and
African Amaryllis; daffodil bulbs and also the well-known, Tulip
MTK Miniature Color Bulbs .
Amaryllis
flower bulbs grow the showiest blooms and are pre-cooled to force quick
flowering in three weeks right after containerizing. Dutch bulb
importers of Amaryllis supply a bigger selection of selections and much
more bulbs to tempt the purchasers. The African growers of Amaryllis
bulbs seem to be enslaved towards the Dutch Amaryllis importers
distribution network, nonetheless, the African flowers that emerge
around the Amaryllis stems are superior in several respects to the Dutch
Amaryllis. The African Amaryllis blooms seem to supply clearer colors,
much more compact flower stalks, leaves that develop as the flowers
seem, and much more numerous flower stalks and develop from smaller
bulbs. The big array of bloom colors from amaryllis includes red, pink,
lavender, orange, yellow, white, green, maroon, red stripe, white
stripe, pink stripe, and bi-color. Double numbers of petals on Amaryllis
flowers are fast growing to become very well-liked options to buy,
because the petal count is improved to 12, instead of six that grow on
most Amaryllis bulb flower stems, seeking very equivalent to a huge
carnation flower.
Daffodil
flower bulbs are important Dutch bulbs for fall planting, because of
their reasonable marketplace cost, the ease of planting, and also the
developing of flower stalks within the Spring in numerous colors of
yellow, white, orange, and the rare pink daffodil. Daffodil bulbs are
easy to naturalize to bloom again every year.
Tulip bulbs are a
native flowering plant of Turkey, but extended ago tulips have been
hybridized on a sizable commercial scale by Dutch bulb growers. The cost
of Dutch tulips has not often been affordable to purchase, but tulip
buyers these days still adore the spring flower colors of red, pink,
orange, yellow, blue, purple, white, and bi-color. Cities and government
organizations anxiously buy tulip bulbs in huge numbers during winter
seasons to grow in stunning landscape displays for the Spring.
The
Canna lily rhizome has been lengthy deemed to be tropical in nature,
with really tiny cold hardy resistance. The early American botanist and
explorer, William Bartram, wrote in his book, Travels, in 1773, the
discovery of Canna indica in Alabama close to Mobile, "Canna indica is
surprising in luxuriance, presenting a glorious show, the stem rises
six, seven, and nine feet high, terminating upwards with spikes of
scarlet flowers." Bartram also found the native Canna flaccida, growing
near Fort Frederica, Georgia, positioned on the Island of St Simon's.
Canna lily colors are broad, red, white, pink, lavender, orange, yellow,
speckled, bi-color and other individuals. Some Canna flower growers
plant cannas with variegated leaf types which can be striped with red,
green, yellow, white, and pink. Dutch distributors of canna rhizomes
nonetheless flood retail box store, garden centers with "Victorian-age"
canna bulbs of poor high quality; varieties that had declined, "run
out", 50 years ago, and they should happen to be discontinued and not
presented to purchasers at a garden center nursery.
Ginger lily
rhizomes grow flowers with fragile, delicate blossoms - many searching
like miniature orchid flowers. The foliage of Ginger lilies is
interestingly variable, developing in colors of green, yellow, maroon,
and stripes of yellow or white. Interest in planting ginger lilies has
surged in 20 years, due to the realization that numerous ginger lilies
are cold hardy, surviving temperatures as cold as zero degrees F. The
foliage and also the flowers are pleasantly aromatic.
Daylilies
are truly not bulbs but rhizomes, but are sold extensively as daylily
bulbs. A large number of named varieties of Daylily bulbs happen to be
easily hybridized by legions of backyard gardeners and also the
selection improvement and flower top quality is absolutely astonishing.
The improvement has resulted in developing double flower daylily,
miniature daylily, cold hardy daylilies, and compact clumping or big
clumping daylily plants. It really is staggering to understand all these
several colors - red, white, yellow, orange, purple, pink, and bi-color
originated from an original native plant -a seedy, yellow daylily
developing wild around the forest edge.
Crinum Lily bulbs supply
to an adventurous hobbiest or gardener an antique garden bulb choice
which has been reintroduced as enhanced crinum clones by the brilliant
inductiveness of chemist, Lester Hannibal of Fair Oaks, California.
Lester Hannibal back crossed and intercrossed many native crinum lily
species to supply the gardener an excellent, cold hardy crinum, an
"interspecific hybrid", that may be grown as far North as Philadelphia,
PA, zone 6, and to survive intense freezes of beneath zero temperatures.
Many of Lester Hannibal's crinum flower hybrids had been a re-creation
of obsolete but well-known commercial crosses that have been made by
Cecil Houdyshel in the 1930's, but largely enhanced upon in the original
"Powellii" forms with clear, white and pink colors, an increase inside
the quantity of flowers within the umbel, extended flowering periods, an
eliminatio of drooping flowers, an intensification of fragrance and
early flowering right after sprouting in the germination from the seed.
The "milk and wine" crinum lilies were named, simply because the flowers
were white (milk) and wine striped colors. Crinum colors are burgundy,
red, pink, white, greenish-yellow, and orange. Crinum bulbs improve by
developing into clumps of numerous offsets in the central mother bulb,
or by planting the seed of some cultivars or species.
-Rare,
Hard-To-Find Flower Bulbs of Merit- Many uncommon minor flower bulbs are
unavailable to purchase anywhere, except by possibly exchanging plants
with collectors and hobbiest. The Amazon lily, Encharist grandiflora,
blooms with six white, daffodil like petals, along with a green or
glowing yellow cup radiating in the center. This delicate flower can be
remembered from days previous for its great charming fragrance. The Bird
of Paradise is known for the two tropical forms, the Strelizia reginae,
essentially the most typical: brilliantly colored flowers with orange,
red, and blue glaring blossoms; and the Strelizia nicholae that grows
huge, showy, white flowers. The Blood Lily, Scadoxus mutliflorus, types
baby-head sized globular flowers with red filamented petals and radiate
fragile threads of red which can be affixed for the to the center from
the bloom, fantastic for container culture. The Red Butterfly lily,
Odontonema strictum, won the perennial plant award from the year in
Florida within the year 2000, and butterflies and hummingbirds flock to
visit the fiery red spikes, beginning in mid-August and continuing till
the initial hard freeze. The Calla lily, Calla palustrus, has been
hybridized with numerous other Calla lily species to grow into numerous
splendid colors, but the new hybrids aren't as well-known because the
white, fragrant, winter-blooming, Calla aethiopica; and the yellow
calla, Calla aethiopica. Clivia lilies, Clivia minata, are option heavy
shade-requiring plants that create gigantic clusters of orange flowers,
cup shaped, having a yellow throat, and often will re-bloom two or three
occasions from huge bulbs.