Spring Flowering Bulbs

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Spring Flowering Bulbs

Aug 9, 2016 Posted by Admin In Contractor Center, 0 Comments

Fall Bulb Planting for Spring Blooms

It’s been a long hot summer. Are you thinking spring? Become inspired to start your landscape project now for a colorful display this coming spring.

Planting bulbs is a simple task and we have all the supplies needed to get it done. Assorted bulbs are in stock now at Northeast Nursery. Select from tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, alliums, amaryllis bulbs and more. Plant bulbs in masses for the best color show. Now is the time to start planting. Call us today.

Remember: Bulbs must go in the ground before the ground freezes and while bulbs are still firm and without prominent sprouts.

Forced Bulbs

Indoor Forcing is a process that stimulates bulbs to bloom out of season. Of all the flower bulbs available in autumn, Hyacinths, Paperwhites, Narcissus (Daffodils), Tulips, Crocus and Amaryllis are the easiest to bring into flower and perfect for indoor growing. Many other bulb varieties may also be suitable for your indoor garden.

Bulbs for Naturalizing

The following bulbs are the easiest to “plant” so they look like you didn’t: Alliums, Crocus, Tulips, Iris reticulata, Scillas, Muscari Armeniacum, Daffodils and Camassia.

Selecting Bulbs For Fall Planting Beds

Determine the location, the amounf of sunlight and the size of planting bed wanted. Then look at height and color. Here are some questions that can be asked for planning out a beautiful looking garden:

Does your customer want flowers for cutting or fragrance?

Perhaps you need deer resistant flowers?

Preparing the Soil

To prepare the bed you will want to add organic material such as peat moss, cow manure, or compost adn a good bulb fertilizer to the soil. Mulching the bed after planting will help keep the soil temperature stable over the winter. Remember to fertilize and mulch established beds too.

When installing the bulbs we have some other items you should use:

Espoma Bulb Tone or Bone Meal

Bulb Planters

Augers for planting bulbs

With all of the moles and voles around apply Shotgun Repels-All Animal Repellent to the bulbs. It’s natural protection will keep these critters from eating the bulbs.

Here are some varieties available at our Garden Center today:

	Crocus large flowering ‘Remembrance' Height: Up to 8”		Crocus large flowering 'Golden Yellow’ Height: Up to 8"
	Crocus large flowering 'Mixed' Height: Up to 8”		Crocus large flowering 'Flower Record' Height: Up to 6"
	Crocus large flowering 'Pickwick' Height: Up to 5”		Crocus large flowering 'Flower Record' Height: VS Qty/Box: 150
	Crocus large flowering 'Peter Pan' Height: VS Qty/Box: 150		Daffodil "Delnashaugh" Height: 16"
	Daffodil "Sir Winston Churchill" Height: 14 to 16”		Daffodil "Suada" Height: 12 to 18”
	Tulip "Roi du Midi" Height: 24 to 30"		Tulip "World's Favorite" Height: 18 to 24"
	Narcissi miniature 'Tete-a-Tete' Height: 10" - 14”		Narcissi large cupped 'Ice Follies' Height: 16" - 20”
	Narcissi trumpet 'Dutch Master' Height: 16" - 20”		Narcissi trumpet 'Las Vegas' Height: 16" - 20”
	Narcissi trumpet 'Mount Hood' Height: 16" - 20”		Narcissi large cupped 'Fortune' Height: 16" - 20”
	Narcissi small-cupped 'Barrett Browning' Height: 16" - 20”		Narcissi large cupped 'Salome' Height: 16" - 20”
	Narcissi double 'Tahiti' Height: 16" - 20”		Narcissi large cupped 'Mix' Height: 16" - 20”
	Tulipa fosteriana 'Golden Emperor' Height: 14" - 16"		Tulipa fosteriana 'Red Emperor' Height: 14" - 16"
	Tulipa fosteriana 'Purissima' (White Emperor) Height: 14" - 16”		Tulipa greigii 'Red Riding Hood' Height: 14" - 16”
	Tulipa kaufmanniana 'Stresa' Height: 10" - 14”		Daffodil "Scarlet O'Hara" Height: 12 to 16”
	Daffodil "Sempre Avanti" Height 16”		Tulip "Mrs. JT Scheepers" Height: 22 to 24”
	Tulip "Strawberry Triumph Mixture" Height" 18 to 24”		Tulip "Fire Glow Mixture" Height" 18 to 24”
	Tulip "Sweet Pink Mixture" Height: 18 to 24”		Tulip "Yokohama" Height: 16”
	Calla 'Aethiopica' Height: 14 to 16"		Tulipa single early 'Princess Irene' Height: 14" - 16"
	Tulipa single early 'Apricot Beauty' Height: 14" - 16”		Tulipa double early 'Monte Carlo' Height: 14" - 16”
	Tulipa double early 'Abba' Height: 14" - 16”		Tulipa darwin hybrid 'Banja Luka' Height: 22" +
	Tulipa darwin hybrid 'Apeldoorn' Height: 22" +		Tulipa darwin hybrid 'Pink Impression' Height: 22" +
	Tulipa darwin hybrid 'Ivory Floradale' Height: 22" +		Tulipa triumph 'Ile de France' Height: 16" - 20”
	Tulipa triumph 'Kees Nelis' Height: 16" - 20”		Tulipa triumph 'Lucky Strike' Height: 16" - 20”
	Tulipa triumph 'Inzell' Height: 16" - 20”		Tulipa triumph 'Yellow Present' Height: 16" - 20”
	Tulipa triumph 'Don Quichotte' Height: 16" - 20”		Hyacinthus orientalis 'Carnegie' Height: 10" - 14”
	Tulipa triumph 'Passionale' Height: 16" - 20”		Hyacinthus orientalis 'Delft Blue' Height: 10" - 14"
	Hyacinthus orientalis 'Pink Pearl' Height: 10" - 14”		Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' Height: 5”+
	Hyacinthus orientalis 'Jan Bos' Height: 10" - 14”		Anemone blanda 'White Splendour' Height: 5”+
	Anemone blanda 'Mixed' Height: 5”+		Muscari Armeniacum Height: 10" - 14”
	Scilla siberica Height: Up to 8"		Daffodil "St. Keverne" Height" 18”
	Daffodil "Accent" Height: 12 to 14”		Hyacinth "Gypsy Queen" Height: 10 to 12”
	Narcissus "Red Devon" Height: 16”		Tulip "Van Eijk" Height: 22 to 26”
	Tulip "Gudoshnik" Height: 24”		Tulip "Angelique" Height: 14 to 20”
	Tulip "Bastogne" Height: 18 to 20”		Tulip "Blue Ribbon Mixture" Height: 18 to 24”
	Tulip "Darwin Hybrid Mixture" Height: 20 to 22”		Tulip "Jimmy" Height: 16 to 18”
	Tulip "Hot Pants" Height: 18 to 22”		Tulip "Negrita" Height: 18 to 20"
	Tulip "Kikomachi" Height: 16 to 18”		Tulip "Purple Flag" Height: 14 to 20”
	Tulip "Maureen" Height: 28”		Tulip "Washington" Height: 18”
	Tulip "Parade" Height: 26”		Tulip "Francoise" Height: 24”
	Tulip "Tequila Sunrise" Height" 18 to 20”		Tulip "Golden Oxford" Height: 20 to 24”
	Tulip "Daydream" Height: 20 to 24”		Tulip "Grand Style" Height: 18 to 20”
	Tulip "Golden Apeldoorn" Height: 20 to 24”		Tulip "Mistress" Height: 20”
	Tulip "Golden Parade" Height: 24”		Tulip "Oxford" Height: 22”
	Tulip "Red Impression" Height: 22”		Tulip "Strong Gold" Height: 17”
	Tulip "Monsella" Height: 10 to 12”

Late Season

	Tulipa single late 'Blue Aimable' Height: 22”+		Tulipa single late 'Menton' Height: 22"+
	Tulipa single late 'Queen of Night' Height: 22”+		Allium giant 'Gladiator' Height: 22”+
	Allium tall 'Purple Sensation' Height: 16" - 20”		Daffodil "Cheerfulness" Height: 14 to 16”
	Daffodil "Apotheose" Height: 14”		Tulip "Dordgone" Height: 18 to 24”
	Tulip "Avignon" Height" 24 to 26”		Tulip "Big Smile" Height: 24 to 26”
	Tulip "Blushing Beauty" Height: 28 to 30”		Tulip "Kingsblood" Height: 24 to 26”
	Tulip "La Courtine" Height: 18 to 20”		Tulip "Renown" Height: 20 to 24”
	Tulip "Ollioules" Height: 22”		Tulip "Temple of Beauty" Height: 28 to 30"

Tulips 12+, 500 p/tray with pict.

	Tulipa fosteriana 'Red Emperor’		Tulipa fosteriana 'Golden Emperor'
	Tulipa fosteriana 'Purissima' (White Emperor)		Tulipa triumph 'Ile de France’
	Tulipa triumph 'Yellow Present’		Tulipa triumph 'Kees Nelis’
	Tulipa triumph 'Don Quichotte’		Tulipa darwin hybrid 'Pink Impression’
	Tulipa triumph ‘Passionale'		Tulipa darwin hybrid 'Banja Luka’
	Tulipa darwin hybrid ‘Apeldoorn'		Narcissi bunch flowering “Geranium"
	Narcissi trumpet 'Dutch Master’		Narcissi large cupped ‘Magnet'
	Narcissi large cupped 'Ice Follies’		Narcissi trumpet 'Mount Hood’
	Narcissi large cupped ‘Mix'		Narcissi double 'White Lion’
	Narcissi double 'Tahiti'

Healthy Start 3-4-3 is great for bulbs!

Your tulips know how to grow, but why not create optimal conditions for growth. Healthy Start 3-4-3 is the ultimate starter fertilizer and soil conditioner.

It’s N-P-K is derived from organic plant and animal proteins like bone meal, blood meal, and feather meal. Natural humic acids are added to increase nutrient absorption.

Finally, nitrogen fixing and phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria are included to promote biological fertility in the soil.

For planting bulbs, add 1 teaspoon per plant and mix with the soil in the planting hole.

Click here for directions for use, application rates and a complete list of ingredients for Healthy Start 3-4-3.