Special flower bulbs for a special garden In addition to tulips, daffodils and hyacinths, you can also plant special Dutch flower bulbs. These flower bulbs are not as wellknown, but this is exactly what makes them so special. The special springflowering bulbs are available in various colors, sizes and flowering periods. If you want a special garden, use flower bulbs to new garden look and let your imagination run free! Here is some information from dutchgrown.com about eight special kinds. 1. Winter windflower (Anemone blanda) The Winter windflower is one of the earlyflowering bulbous plants. They produce beautiful flowers in soft tints of white, pink and blue and are often planted beneath trees or shrubs. If you plant them this autumn, they will form a beautiful carpet of flowers within a few years.
2. GloryoftheSnow (Chionodoxa) This whimsical little bulbous plant emerges so early in the spring that it sometimes pushes its way through the snow. Gloryofthesnow requires no special maintenance and can easily increase in numbers from year to year.
3. Spring snowflake or Summer snowflake (Leucojum) Leucojum is called both Spring snowflake as well as Summer snowflake. This is because one species (Leucojum vernum) flowers in the spring and the other (Leucojum aestivum) flowers during the summer. Their delicate white flowers look a lot like those of snowdrops.Even so, they are not the same. You can recognize Leucojum by its petals that are all the same length and by the green spots at the tips of the petals. 4.Snowdrop (Galanthus) Every year, Dutchgrown.com exciting to discover the first snowdrops bulbs in the your garden. They can be flowering as early as February. Planting snowdrops is not difficult, and once established, they will produce more plants year after year. 5. Spanish bluebells (Hyacinthoides) Spanish bluebells are available in several lovely pastel colors. These Spanish bluebells can be planted anywhere in the garden. They will put on a delightful show wherever you plant them: the border, beneath trees and shrubs, and in the grass. 6. Striped squill (Puschkinia) Puschkinia libanotica produces little bluishwhite flowers from February to April. Planting large numbers of them beneath trees and shrubs creates an impressive sight.
7. Nodding StarofBethlehem (Ornithogalum nutans) The peculiar name of Ornithogalum comes from ornithos (Greek for 'bird') and gala which is Greek for 'milk'. Nutans comes from nuto (Latin) and means 'nodding' which refers to the nodding flowers of this plant.Nodding StarofBethlehem is perfect for naturalizing in sunny meadows such as in an orchard, or beneath deciduous shrubs. 8. Checkered fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris) The flowers of these plants look like the eggs of lapwings, hence their common name.Their white and lilac flowers add a splendid color to the garden. The Checkered fritillary naturalizes quickly to form a beautiful blanket of flowers and will also thrive in partial shade.