Best Summer Bulbs
Summer bulbs can make your garden look beautiful with color and scent. The best thing about summer bulbs is that they will keep on coming back year after year. Summer bulbs can pick up where your spring bulbs drop off. Spring and summer bulbs not only add color and scents to your garden but they are vital for the bees. They will attract to the flowers helping with pollination of fruit and vegetables in the garden and allotment.
Here in this article we will help you find the best bulbs for a summer display of color in your garden. As well as flowering your garden you can also grow summer bulbs for cut flowers in the house so you can enjoy the benefits indoors as well.
Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book
Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-
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Agapanthus
These are flowers that will look amazing in your borders. They produce a large flower hear of flower like the Allium. These come in a beautiful shade of blue. So varieties are hardy and some are not. Check what variety you grow. If they are not hardy you are best growing these in pots and storing in the greenhouse over winter.
Allium
These are a fantastic bulb to grow for the summer to add lots of colour to your borders. The bees will love these flowers. They are extremely easy to grow. You can plant the bulbs in spring and they will flower by summer with a fantastic display. Alliums also make great cut flowers for the vase in the house. Alliums come in different shades of purple and white.
Begonias
These are often used when selecting your bedding plants and hanging basket plants. You are guaranteed plenty of colour and flowers from begonias. They will last until the first frost hits which will then kill them off. Begonoias are extremely easy to grow and car for through the summer months. Just make sure that they are kept watered. You can lift the tubers after the first frost and store till the next year.
Calla Lilies
This lily the Calla variety requires to be grown in wet growing conditions to remain healthy. You can grow this indoors and outdoors. These will ten to flower from June to July adding beautiful flowers to your gardens and filling space nicely. If you store the plants indoors they will flower right from spring until autumn if they are kept at the right temperature.
Cannas
These you can grow either in containers or in the ground in borders in your garden. Add some fire to your garden with these fantastic colourful flowers. They come in shades of red, orange, yellow and pink. You can even grow these indoors add add some colour to inside your house.
Cyclamen Hederifolium
These are tuberous perennials which will grow back year on year. They have a lovely pink flower – some are fragrant. It does not grow tall so is ideal for a ground covering. These have ivy shaped leaves. They will look great in the garden and bring extra colour.
Dahlias
These are one of the best flowers you can grow in your garden and allotment they will add so much colour with little work needed to get them growing well. All you have to do is keep deheading them to keep them looking there best. Store the tubers through winter then replant when the cold has passed for another year of flowering. You can certainly add plenty of colour to your borders with these.
Day Lilies
The flowers on the day lily get it’s name from the flower only lasting one day unfortunately. They will continue to flower from may to august though so will add colour for quite a few months. You can get these in different colours. They come in yellow, red and orange. Why not add a mixture to your garden and bring some vibrant colour.
Dierama
This is often called Angel’s fishing rod for how it looks once it is out in bloom. The dierama is grown in sunny borders and in containers. These are semi-evergreen but you can cut away any old foliage in spring.
Eucomis
These are often called pineapple flowers for the way the flowers look with the leaves on top of the flower. They look a very hard flower to grow but they are extremely easy. You can grow these in containers, on the patio or you can even grow them indoors in the conservatory.
Galtonia
These are often called summer hyacinth. They like to be grown in sunny positions. They are slightly fragrant and the bees will love them in your garden. They will flower in late summer in your garden.
Glory Lillie
This type of Lillie is a climbing variety and will grow up to 2 meters tall in height. So make sure you have a structure to fasten them to. These lilies come in a red colour petal with yellow edges.
Gladioli
If you are choosing a bulb for colour this is one that you need to go for. You can even use gladioli flowers as cut flowers in the house. You will only get one flower per bulb but you can buy packs with lots of bulbs in. Add them to your garden border to add lots of colour to your garden.
Freesia
The freesia is a very popular plant for growing for cut flowers. These flowers are smell fantastic with a heavy perfume. To grow these you plant the corms outside in April and then they will flower in the late summer adding beautiful colour to your garden.
Lilies
You can grow lilies for cut flowers to put in your vase or give them as gifts. Just make sure you watch out for the pollen on them as they do stain your clothes. They will certainly add a nice scent to your garden. You can get lilies in lots of different colours and varieties.
Nectaro Scordum
These are also known as Sicilian honey garlic. They are not prone to disease or pests so you are not going to have many issues with growing these in the garden. They have garlic scented leaves and a tall stem which has no leafs.
Peonies
These are ideal for cut flowers with there large flowers which are sometimes double flowers. They will look nice in any flower border bringing lot of colour to it. When planting them make sure that you leave plenty of space for them to flower well. These will grow back each year in the garden just cut off the dead stems in autumn.
These are thought to look like a shaving brush head. They are amazing to see in the garden. They have fantastic looking flower heads. They vary in colour from pink, white and red. Why not add a few of each colour to brighten up your garden. You can even cut these off and add them to your flower display. If you want you can even grow these bulb indoors and have them as a flower in your conservatory.
We hope that these summer bulb flower suggestions has helped you decide which bulbs to plant in your garden for some beautiful colour.
You can find out more about cut flowers here.