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Helpful tips on planting bulbs

Bulbs are easy to grow, provided that you stick to some essentials. Probably no other plant group gives as much variety and pleasure to the gardener with so little effort. The unique thing about bulbs is that they need little but water. Bulbs have a self-contained, highly developed food-storage mechanism that has adapted itself to life underground.  Bulbs can spring back to life continuing their species even after lying dormant for months, enduring drought, frost or searing heat. Most bulbs are perennializing and some even naturalizing. Perennializing bulbs will return several years in a row. Naturalizing bulbs will reproduce and come back every year.

Bulbs can be divided in three group

	Spring flowering bulbs should be planted late autumn and can be ordered until mid October. Well-known bulbs are Tulips, Daffodils, Crocuses, Hyacinths and Alliums.
	Summer flowering bulbs should be planted late spring and can be ordered until the early April. Well-known bulbs are Dahlias, Begonias, Lilies, Gladiolas and Callas.
	Autumn flowering bulbs should be planted early summer and can be ordered until mid August. Well-known bulbs are Autumn Crocuses and Colchicums.

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