Choosing Fall Bulbs for Spring Blooms

It’s fall bulb buying time. (Say that five times fast!) When I moved into my current home just over a year ago, I had no idea what spring flowering bulbs might be hiding in the earth. Now, having witnessed one full growth cycle, I know what is here and I just have to figure out what to add.

This is what popped up this past Spring:

4 white tulips
4 red tulips
1 fragrant pink hyacinth
1 patch of grape hyacinths
3 patches of blue scilla (Siberian Squill)
2 volunteer patches of white snowdrops

As you can tell, there’s plenty of room for improvement. The red tulips have been removed - I’m not a big fan of the red, but everything else is staying.

For fun, I’ve decided to give myself a garden budget of $100. I want to see how far I can go with this amount and what kind of an impact one hundred dollars worth of fall bulbs will make come next spring. Just to be clear, that’s $100 before taxes and any shipping or handling fees for my purchases.

Looking at different websites and through various garden catalogs has me feeling like a kid in a candy store! I could eat everything up. The alliums resemble big purple lollipops on long sticks. The colors draw me in and I can almost smell the delicious fragrance of spring hyacinths. Yummy! There are so many temptations. At first I thought maybe $100 was a large budget, but with all the choices available for spring blooming bulbs, this could be more difficult than anticipated.

Fall Bulb Wish List

This is a list of the fall bulbs I would like to add:

Firefly Snow Crocus
Blue Pearl Crocus
Pickwick Large Flowering Crocus
Jeanne d’arc Crocus

Blue Grape Hyacinths
Blue Ice Fragrant Hyacinths
Queen of the Violets Fragrant Hyacinths

Tulip ‘Rai’ (These are gorgeous!)
White Tulips (not sure yet which variety)

Daffodil ‘New Baby’
Daffodil ‘Lancaster’

Dog Tooth Violets

Blue Drumstick Allium
Allium Purple Sensation

Obviously, I’ll need to do a little editing. My final choices will be made based on color, height and of course price. Let me do a little research and I’ll get back to you with a final shopping list.