Get your Garden Blooming: Our Top 10 Flowering Bulbs

Flowering bulbs are the unsung heroes of the garden, adding swathes of colour, ornamental appeal and phenomenal fragrance. In addition to this, they are cost-effective, versatile and easy to grow. Bulb season is in full swing and now is the perfect time to plant these springtime delights.

Here are our top 10 bulb varieties to create dazzling springtime displays:

Best for cut flowers: Narcissus ‘June Allyson’

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This magnificent and long-lasting daffodil has large ivory flower heads and a vibrant orange cup. It will brighten your beds and borders or can be enjoyed as the perfect cut flower to enjoy around the home.

Best for early flowering: Narcissus ‘Tete a Tete’

Narcissus ‘Tête à Tête’ (10 bulbs)

This award-winning dwarf daffodil is a gardeners’ favourite, and it’s easy to see why. It’s one of the earliest flowering daffodils, it is robust and reliable to grow and will naturalise easily to create displays that get better, year after year. Being one of the shortest narcissus, it is perfect for pots and rockeries, as well as beds and borders, filling your garden with sunshine shades.

Best for large blooms: Tulip ‘Angelique’

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Easily mistaken for a peony, this magnificent tulip has soft pink double blooms that will extend your flowering season through to May. It has received the prestigious Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, so you also have peace of mind that this beauty won’t be blighted by pests and disease.

Best for combination planting: Tulip ‘Queen of Night’

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Among the best of the near black tulips, the petals look black until the sun illuminates them and turns them purple. Its long-lasting flowers look superb in a small cluster as a single variety, but we love planting them alongside orange tulips, such as Tulips Orange Emperor, for a stylish display.

Best for fragrant flowers: Crocus tommasinianus ‘Ruby Giant’

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Flowering from as early as February, this crocus has masses of large dazzling blooms with an incredible scent. Not only that, but they naturalise easily so you will soon have a carpet of colour to admire each spring.

Best for container planting: Allium Carolinianum ‘Rosy Dream’

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Delightful fluffy headed blooms, these Alliums stand out for their wonderful, neat and upright habit. They look magnificent planted in large groups at the front of your flower beds, but we love adding them to pots and containers to admire the intricacy and symmetry of its charming pompom-like spheres.

Best for indoor displays: Hyacinth ‘Jan Bos’

Hyacinth 'Jan Bos' (3 prepared bulbs)

Clusters of star-shaped, highly fragrant dark pink flowers make these Hyacinth prepared bulbs perfect for adding uplifting colour and scent to your home. This unfussy and easy to grow bloom has been through a series of cold treatments and is perfect for elevating your indoor festive displays.

Best for reliability: Fritillary ‘Snakes Head Fritillary’

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Unmatched for its incredible markings among the Fritillaria genus, this award-winning wildflower gem is surprisingly hardy and trouble-free to grow. Admire its incredible chequerboard markings and delicate pendant shape in a wildflower meadow or add them to containers, and these blooms will delight for many years to come.

Best for shaded areas: English Bluebells ‘Hyacinthoides Non-Scripta’

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No one can resist the timeless appeal of an English Bluebell, and we love this classic variety. Reliability, vibrant colour and wonderful fragrance combine with its tolerance of shade, to make it perfect for underplanting shrubs and trees, or for enhancing dark areas.

Best for effortless colour: Lasagna Planting Bulb Mix ‘Red & Purple’

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The ultimate in effortless gardening, our lasagna bulb sets combine the perfect floral partners with layers of flowers that take you through to summer. We love Lasagna Planting Bulb Mix ‘Red & Purple’ for its vibrant colour combination. If you are looking for even more inspiration, then shop our extensive range of spring flowering bulbs.

If you’re looking for even more inspiration, then shop our extensive range of spring flowering bulbs.

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