Make Planting Summer Bulbs an Interesting Gardening Activity
If you love to grow flowers in your patio area or garden space, then you can consider planting summer blooming bulbs. They add great texture, height, colour and drama to your outdoor space in a unique way. Even a small garden can achieve an exotic look by growing these beautiful summer bulbs.
The best thing about these flower bulbs is that they need very less space in your garden. The most commonly planted summer bulbs are begonia, lilies, caladium, gladiolus, etc. which are suitable for planting in garden as well as in containers. Planting these bulbs bring out your creative side and allow you to add interesting colours to your outdoor environment.
Make planting summer bulbs, an interesting affair
Gardening is really an educational and good activity, especially for the development of a child. You can involve kids in this outdoor activity. It allows kids to experience how the natural world changes through seasons and also allow them to admire their own efforts of planting.
Watch them grow
Even before you plant them; it is easy to see where the roots emerge from bulb and where the leaves will sprout at later time. But the real excitement lies when summer arrives, when you will be able to notice growth of first little shoots. This is the perfect time when you can keep a track of how the leaves and bud develop and how the flowers open!
Perfect time to plant these bulbs
Timing is a very important factor which you should consider, before planting these bulbs. You should consider planting them in spring after the threat of frost has passed. Why? It gives them some time to establish some roots during the cool spring months and then at late summer their showy flowers will add striking colours to your outdoor environment.
The thumb rule to plant summer bulbs is to bury them twice as deep as possible, with their ‘noses’ pointing in upward direction. After planting them, water them immediately which will allow them to develop roots quickly. Thus, planting these flower bulbs has their own set of benefits.
