Best Positions To Plant

   The best place to plant your bulbs

1. Bulbs you can plant in sunny positions

The bulbs below thrive being planted in such spots in a cool to temperate climate and they also tolerate shade for a couple of hours each day. In warmer climates they tolerate greater levels of shade:

• Anemones 
• Freesias
• Alliums
• Hyacinths
• Brodiaea
• Ranunculi
• Dutch Iris
• Daffodils
• Lachenalias
• Spring Star Flowers
• Ixias
• Grape Hyacinths
• Sparaxis Species
• Gladioli

2. Bulbs you can plant in shady positions

These bulbs tolerate 2 - 3 hours of full sun each day or filtered light all day:

• Anemones
• Lachenalias
• Dutch Crocus
• Tulips
• Daffodils
• Bluebells
• Cuban Lilies
• Hyacinths
• Grape Hyacinths

3. Bulbs to plant in rockeries

These smaller bulbs are ideal:

• Blue bells
• Dutch Iris
• Daffodils
• Rock Tulips
• Rain Lilies
• Babiana
• Lachenalias
• Cuban Liles
• Grape Hyacinths
• Spring Star Flowers

4. Bulbs for naturalising

These bulbs can be left to flower happily by themselves:

• Anemones
• Ixias
• Blue bells
• Daffodils
• Dutch Iris
• Freesias
• Sparaxis
• Watsonias
• Lachenalias
• Grape Hyacinths

Refer to climate guides and bulb guides for further infomation

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