Bulbs and Co.

Who doesn't love the idea of planting flowers just once and being able to enjoy the most magnificent blooms every year, with their splendor even increasing over time? Sounds tempting, right? With bulb plants, that's no problem.

Especially spring-blooming snowdrops, tulips, daffodils, checkered lilies, and lilies of the valley can comfortably remain in the ground for years after you've pruned back their leaves in the fall. If you cut off the withered blossoms, add compost once more before winter and ideally again in early spring, and separate older bulbs from their offsets every three to four years, you can enjoy your flowers for years to come.

And for the connoisseurs among garden enthusiasts, wild garlic should definitely get a moist and shady spot in the garden. From its leaves, you can make true delicacies like pesto, herb butter, and breads, all without the bothersome odors. Another grateful candidate for the rather unloved shaded zones under deciduous trees is ornamental clover, with which you can bring luck into your garden.

Even though a flower bulb primarily benefits early bloomers, allowing them to begin their vegetation phase before trees have closed their canopy, there are also very attractive summer bulb plants. These are then planted not between September and the start of frost, but from March to early summer.

And with winter-hardy gladiolus varieties, you can expect the first impressive flower spikes every year starting in July.

And what would summer be without ornamental alliums, dahlias, begonias, ranunculus, and lilies?

Plant your bulbs at a depth of about three times the bulb's diameter. If your garden soil is very heavy and clayey, you can mix the soil with sand. This will prevent the bulbs from rotting.

You can plant your bulbs in borders, beds, early bloomers, or even under the lawn. However, you must wait until after flowering for the first lawn mowing. Then, the Easter Bunny can also hide the Easter eggs among the most magnificent blossoms.

Otherwise, the biggest advantage of bulbous plants is that they require very little care.