Description
This collection of summer bulb varieties is our choose of some excellent flowers for your garden. Accordingly we have chosen some summer bulb varieties that will add colour and a spread of flowering during the summer months. In addition these summer bulbs will work well in the garden or in containers. Summer bulbs will produce a huge amount of summer colour and as such are an ideal purchase for you or a friend.
This is a collection of 40 bulbs:
1 Dahlia Sylvia
2 Lilies White Brush
12 Gladioli Maxial
15 Gladioli Callianthus (Acidanthera)
10 Ixia Mixed
Cultivation instructions
Planting Indoors: N/A
Planting Outdoors. Cultivate soils to a depth of 15cms and add grit if drainage is a problem. Dahlias are not frost hardy and therefore should either be started off indoors or in a greenhouse and not planted out until late April/ May or early June depending on your location in the country. In some very mild south coastal locations this date can be brought forward by several weeks. The tubers can be lifted in the late autumn and stored in a frost-free place over winter. Alternatively if your soils are free draining they can be left over winter as long as they are well mulched.
Gladioli, Ixia and Lilies are winter hardy and can be left outside all year long and will flower again the following summer. Follow the planting instructions below for the best results
Lilies are very hardy and can be left in the ground to over winter for a number of years.
Remember to feed them all when they are growing with bone meal or similar
Care Tips:
Dahlias will need to be protected if over wintering in the garden.
Growing Information
Flowering height: Dahlias 40″ (100cm) Lilies 36″ (90cm), Ixia 20″ (50cm), Gladiolus Maxial and Acidanthera 36″ (90cm)
Flowering Period: Summer to first frosts
Soil type: Free draining soils. In heavier soils add humus and or grit to help drainage
Aspect: semi to full sun.
Planting Depth. Dahlias so top of tuber is 5cms below the soil surface, Acidanthera and Ixia 5- 8cm deep and gladioli 10-15cm
Fragrant: Lilies and Acidanthera
Full growing instructions provided. For further growing instructions visit tims tips/dahlias on you tube
