9 Unique Bulbs You Should Consider Planting This Fall

Start planning a beautiful garden next spring now.

Summer is in full swing, but it’s not Also early to start planning your fall bulb order. Some bulbs should be planted during the fall months because they need cool soil to begin to germinate and establish their roots. They will then be strong and ready to flower in spring.

However, when you’re flipping through your bulb catalog, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, especially when it comes to choosing between two dozen different daffodils and a sea of ​​tulips. So we asked four gardening experts to share their favorite bulbs to plant in the fall. Here are their choices.

Advice

Plant the bulbs in the ground before the first frost! This ensures that your bulbs can establish roots and grow before the ground freezes.

Tulip ‘Ollioules’

Don’t sleep on the hyacinths, which should experience a revival. Raven suggests two with unique coloring. “We had a good pot of Muscari latifolium and a very dark indigo blue hyacinth ‘Dark Distinction’ this spring, and I’m repeating it for planting this fall,” Raven says. “It smelled great and lasted over six weeks between blooms.”

Tulipa ‘Queen of the Night’

Koether calls the allium “millenium”, which is a particularly compact and clumpy allium, “incredibly reliable as a deer resistant”. The little purple globes appear in late summer when the garden begins to feel tired as summer ends. Koether notes that this bulb prefers full sun.

Lily flower tulips

Pearsoll included several lily-flowered tulips, which have pointed petals that flare out similarly to lilies, in his display garden. Her choices of lily-flowered tulips include Tulip “Ballerina”, a tangerine flower with pink and magenta reflections; Tulip ‘Elegant Lady’, which has creamy flowers edged with soft purple-red that mature to pink; And Tulip “Purple Heart,” which, as the name suggests, is a purple-brown.

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