Favorite Bulbs Gardening In Pots Advice

Since bulbs are great when grown in boxes or pots, below you can see a few favourites:

Blue Lily of the Nile or Agapanthus.

It's a plant with strap leaves, evergreen, fleshy rooted, that usually grows in urns and tubs on steps and terraces in summer time. They're easy to grow, but they still need a room with no frost, that is well lighted.

The Calla Lily, which is seen in a lot of European gardens, is easy to grow outdoors in regions that are warm, as well as put in pots in Northern regions. The most popular one is the white one, that has leaves in form of a heart.

Put them in pots during February or March, and when the weather is better take them outdoors in large pots. If they're kept in part shade or full sun areas, they will do quite well, but they need a lot of water to grow. After the foliage is ready, rest the bulbs to grow again.

The Dahlias are free flowering and colourful. The varieties that are large and tall can only be put in large boxes or planters. The smaller varieties can easily be put in smaller containers.

They can grow up to one or two feet, so they can be cultivated in tubers, with part shade or average soil. If it's February, they can be raised in seed sown indoors.

If the tubers are kept in sand or peat and the place is frost proof and cool, these plants can be grown for a long time. Make sure to sprinkle the bulbs during winter if they are shrivelling.

The Gladioulus have leaves shaped like spears, hued spikes and they flower during the summer. They can be kept outdoors only after there is no more danger of frost. Keep them four inches to six inches deep and at a six inches apart distance.

It's best to plant several containers at a few weeks in between, so you have a bloom succession.

The stems should be staked before the flowers open. Once the colour of the leaves becomes brown, lift the corms, cut the foliage and after that dust to control thrips. Keep the corms in a place that is dry.

The Gloxinias are flowers that appear during the summer and have tubular and large blooms that have the colour purple, lavender, white, pink or red. The tubers should be started indoors and only taken outside when the weather is good.

They should be kept in a place that is sheltered from rain or wind, so the leaves aren’t injured or broken by them. Pick any place when it comes to houses with low broad eaves, and place your lines of window boxes and pots.

Lilies are hardy and gorgeous flowers, that come in a wide range of colours. And these days, it’s even possible to have a garden full of lilies, from the month of May until the frost arrives. First, the Lilium pumilum variety appears, after that come the Olympic or Golden Chalice Hybrids, Madonnas and the auratums.

If you plant in the fall lilies such as tulips and daffodils, by spring the bulbs will turn into flowers. If you live in a colder region, lilies should be grown the same way as the Dutch bulbs, when it comes to outdoors during the winter. Put a few of them in two feet wide and two feet deep, together.

If their size is small, put them in a small pot, about six or eight inches in size. The larger ones put them in ten inch pots. Once they flower, you can put the pots out of sight and let them be. You can buy during the spring lilies grown in pots, which you can put into containers, without disturbing the roots.

You can put a number of them in the same container, combining for example grape ivy, English ivy, dwarf annuals or vinca. Once they flower, you can take them and put them in your garden.

Tuberose is a summer flower, that has either single or double flowers, it’s white, comes with a narrow foliage and lasts a long time.

If you live somewhere where you have shorter seasons, you should keep the bulbs inside, two months before you plant them outside. Put them in six inch pots and use liquid fertilizer in them.

They need a soil that is well drained, rich and a full sun. You should start from the beginning each year, as these flowers don’t do well the second year.