Alliums, Snowdrops, and Anemone Complete the Bulbs for Planting Now

Besides tulips, daffodils, crocus, and hyacinths, there are some additional spring bulbs you should consider for your garden.

Flowering Alliums are members of the onion family and come in a variety of flower colors and sizes. These tall blooming flowers like a sunny location, are deer and rodent resistant, and bloom in the early summer.  

Alliums come in a variety of flower colors as well as heights and create a dramatic effect when planted in-groups of 3 or more.

Allium Caeruleum Azureum Blue Drumstick

Snowdrops or Galanthus are the earliest of the spring flowers and often times are blooming ahead of the crocus and as early as February. Snow drops have white flowers that when poking through a snowfall, remind all of us that spring is not necessarily around the corner but is at least on its way.
　
Snow drops should be planted in a partially shaded area, as they most definitely do not like hot dry locations.

Use 5 or more bulbs per planting to create the dramatic look, which you are striving for. Eventually, snow drops will readily naturalize in the area they have been planted.
　
Turkish Snowdrop 10 Bulbs - Galanthus elwesii

 　
Anemones or Windflowers produce daisylike flowers and come in a variety of flower colors.

Anemones do not have any fragrances and readily naturalize in a garden area. Often times they are planted among daffodils to hide the long growing leaves of the completed daffodil flower.

Anenomes like like a well-drained soil and a sunny location before the trees and shrubs around them have finished leafing out.


Anemone blanda Mixture