Bloom Magazine UK

BURIED TREASURES

Think of bulbs and you might bring to mind daffodils lolling by the roadside or jewel-like crocuses among the grass. But bulbs aren’t purely a pleasure for spring. Ornamental bulbs are the greatest joy within my garden all year round and there’s at least one to enjoy in every month of the year.

By bulbs, I also mean their cousins, tubers, corms and rhizomes. In their simplest form, all of these are essentially alike, in so much as that they’re planted during a period of dormancy before growing, swelling and building strength in order to burst forth and reveal the

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