Crocus × cultorum 'Jeanne d'Arc'
Dutch crocus bulbs
- Position: full sun
- Soil: gritty, poor to moderately fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: February and March
- Flower colour: white
- Other features: slender, strap-shaped, mid-green leaves
- Hardiness: fully hardy
- Bulb size: 7/8
Producing a showy display in late winter and early spring, the large, goblet-shaped blooms have white petals, which are stained with purple. - Garden care: Plant bulbs in naturalistic drifts 10cm (4in) deep in September or October.
Cyclamen hederifolium var. hederifolium f. albiflorum
sowbread
Pure white flowers and beautiful leaves
£5.99
9cm pot
within 2-3 days excludes weekends
Crocus × cultorum 'Pickwick'
Dutch crocus bulbs
Larger sized, stripey flowers
£4.99
25 bulbs
available to order from summer 2013
Anemone blanda blue-flowered
winter windflower blue-flowered bulbs
A carpet of bright blue daisy-like flowers
£4.99
25 bulbs
available to order from summer 2013
Plant spring bulbs
Spring bulbs, such as daffodils and hyacinths, can be planted whenever the soil conditions allow. As a rough guide, cover them with about twice as much soil as the bulb is deep: so that a 5cm (2in) deep bulb would need a 15cm...
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Bulbs are ideal for anyone who rates themselves as 'keen-but-clueless' because they are one of the easiest plants to grow. Provided you plant them at the right time of year at more or less the right depth, they will reward...
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