Bulbs and Their Kin - Mid-Atlantic

Written by Lois J deVries

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Favorite Bulbs & Their Kin

• Crocus
  
  I like the large-flowered hybrids, particularly in purple and purple and white stripes. I interplant yellow ones among the daffodils in the lawn.
  
  
• Scilla and Puschkinia
  Scilla reseeds everywhere, creating beautiful colonies of blue throughout the garden in spring and are no-care, once planted. Puschkinia is a bit more fragile, but it's pale pale blue color offers an interesting change of pace from the generally strong colors of spring bulbs.

• Daffodils, Narcissus
  Reliable, early-spring flowers. I favor the old-fashioned fragrant, large-cupped types, such as King Alfred, although the most fragrant, multi-flowered types that are later-blooming have an intoxicating scent that isn't to be missed.
  
• Iris
  I caught the Tall-Bearded fever the first year of my garden-scouting career http://loisdevries.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html . In our area, these bloom around Memorial Day and fill the floral void between the spring ephemerals and roses. Easy to grow.

• Asiatic and Oriental Lilies
  Wonderfully fragrant, multiply on their own, lovely colors. Need staking, but otherwise carefree.

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