Naturalising bulbs

‘Wild Garlic’ prefers a sunny or semi-shady spot in moist, calcareous soil. This allium produces a strong garlic-like smell during the flowering. Plant bulbs immediately upon arrival.

Colchicums mainly grow in woodland and in wet meadows. They love a sunny to partial shaded place. They can also be used for indoor flowering, without soil or water.

Ornithogalum nutans has broad leaves and prefers a sunny to semishaded location. The ‘Drooping Star-of-Bethlehem’ prefers a moist, limy soil.

Arum italicum performs best in damp soil in shade or semi-shade and can easily be combined with ferns, ivy and hostas. The redorange berries appear in August.

‘Star-of-Bethlehem’ likes a sunny to slightly shaded place on moderately moist and moderately nutrient-rich soil.

The winter aconite is one of the earliest flowering bulbs. Eranthis celicica does well under deciduous trees and shrubs.