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10 Best Spring Ground Covers
Garden design

10 Best Spring Ground Covers

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Feb 01, 2022

Sometimes individual flowers just aren’t enough. In this blog we present the 10 best ground covering flower bulbs to change your garden from blah to beautiful.

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A Bulb Planting Plan
Garden design

A Bulb Planting Plan

Posted by Michael King on Jun 15, 2021

This planting plan shows just how to go about setting out different types of bulbs throughout an existing mixed border. The aim is to give a continuous display from early...

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What to do with Tulip and Daffodil bulbs after they have finished flowering?
Bulb infoPlanting tips

What to do with Tulip and Daffodil bulbs after they have finished flowering?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on May 06, 2021

Spring has sprung and your bulbs have all bloomed, now what? What should you do with your Spring-flowering daffodils and tulips once they have finished flowering? Well, there are a...

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Garden Bulb Mixtures
Bulb newsGarden design

Garden Bulb Mixtures

Posted by Michael King on Apr 29, 2021

There are two good reasons why you might want to plant mixtures of bulbs in your garden borders. Instead of clumps of a single variety of bulb you may want...

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THE BEST PLACE TO BUY TULIP BULBS
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THE BEST PLACE TO BUY TULIP BULBS

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 19, 2021

Tulips come in myriad shapes, styles and colours and enliven any bed, border, garden, pot or container with their vibrant shades and beautiful forms. Planted alone or alongside other Autumn-planted...

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Tall Tulips
Bulb infoFeatured varieties

Tall Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Tall tulips are the best tulips to use at the end of spring in your garden borders. Nature has been kind to gardeners by coming up with a range of...

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Lily-flowered Group Tulips
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Lily-flowered Group Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Lily-flowered Group tulips are deservedly popular. They are tall and elegant with slim-waisted flowers and elongated petals. If I were only allowed to grow one tulip it would have to...

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Big Bold Bulbs
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Big Bold Bulbs

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

There is a select group of big bulbs that we can use to make a bold statement within our garden borders. Growing tall and flowering in spring or summer they...

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Red Tulips
Featured varietiesGarden design

Red Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Red is the colour of stop lights, emergency buttons and blood and is also to be found in flowers of many dramatic tulips. Red tulips signal the start of spring...

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Black Tulips
Featured varietiesGarden design

Black Tulips

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Black tulips have been the holy grail of tulip breeders for centuries. It is rather like what you don’t have yet is what you want, just like a blue rose...

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Darwinhybrid Group Tulips - Bold And Beautiful
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Darwinhybrid Group Tulips - Bold And Beautiful

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

Darwinhybrids are monster tulips, sometimes with blooms bigger than a clenched fist that are guaranteed to make a bold and dramatically beautiful display anywhere.

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Naturalising Daffodils in Grass
Garden design

Naturalising Daffodils in Grass

Posted by Michael King on Mar 22, 2021

It is easy to grow daffodils in grass; through the lawn or meadow areas of your garden. Naturalised daffodils, in the true sense of the word, are the wild species...

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Meet Ben, our Flower Bulb Specialist

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