As temperatures cool down and September quickly approaches, it’s time to begin thinking about planning your spring bulb planting schemes for 2025.
With the soil readily prepped by the summer sun, autumn is the best time to plant your spring flowering bulbs. Allowing your bulbs to establish themselves into the ground and sprout their roots ahead of the winter chill, planting your bulbs from September until November ensures that they receive the best head start for a beautiful springtime flourish. From the charming delights of Tulipa to statement Allium globes, dive into our step-by-step guide as we show you how easy it is to pick and establish spring bulbs throughout your landscape.
Choosing your bulbs
When deciding what bulbs to include within our designs, our skilled soft landscaping team make a number of considerations, such as desired colour schemes, the best blooms for long-lasting colour and suitable garden locations. If you’re not quite sure about the types of spring bulbs that you want to include within your garden then this is where our specialist soft landscaping team can significantly help you.
Burgeoning beautiful bursts of colour and renowned as the signifier of spring, daffodils are a must-have for every spring garden. Versatile blooms that suit a variety of garden styles, Narcissi boast glorious trumpet-shaped flower heads and make wonderful cut flowers to enhance your interiors. Narcissus ‘Avalanche’ is a particularly beautiful variety that oozes a sweet perfume and can be carefully snipped in the cutting garden to fill your vases throughout the spring months.
Adding a gorgeous touch of elegance and structure to your beds and borders, alliums are a fabulous springtime bloom. Worshippers of the sun, alliums thrive in sunny spaces and are excellent for attracting pollinators into the garden. Flowering throughout spring (and some varieties flourishing throughout summer too), Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’ and Allium stipitatum ‘Mount Everest are two captivating varieties that fill your garden with colour during spring and summer.
Filling your vases with bright and vivid spring shades, tulips are another essential bulb to include throughout your springtime scene. Perfect for enhancing beds, borders and pots too, tulips are glorious cut flowers that adore being planted in full sunshine. Flourishing ivory and lime-tinted petals, Tulipa ‘Spring Green’ is one of our planting designers’ favourites varieties. Diffusing a dreamy cottage garden feel, this hardy variety is a wonderful perennial that can be introduced within the cutting garden to create an idyllic springtime scene.
How to plant bulbs
When planting bulbs, our horticulturalists recommend planting three to four times the height of the bulb and at least twice the bulbs width apart. Try to plant with the ‘nose’ or the shoot of the bulb pointing upwards. Due to the genius of plants or ‘gravitropism’, they respond to environmental cues, in this case, gravity, to find the right way to grow. So, if you do accidentally plant one in the slightly wrong position then the bulb will be able to seek out the surface itself.
Before planting, our team make sure to check over our bulbs for any damage, discolouration or potential mould. If bulbs are soft to the touch then they may not be viable to plant. Always keep bulbs in a cold dark place, preferably hanging up so that any potential pests can’t reach them.
Watch our quick guide below to find out more!
Aftercare
Interested in establishing a series of striking spring bulbs throughout your landscape? Talk to our specialist soft landscaping team today to find out how we craft bespoke planting schemes tailored to your specific tastes and preferences.
