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Top 5 low-maintenance bulbs for your garden

The ol' 'set & forget' approach is always in style! - by Better Homes and Gardens
  • 07 Apr 2021
Top 5 low-maintenance bulbs for your garden
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Not all bulbs need to be planted fresh, each year. This bunch will naturalise in the garden, making themselves a permanent home, and giving you a fabulous flower display, year after year.

Bulbs are also tough customers, which will forgive a little neglect. Handy if you're an intrepid traveller or they just slip the mind from time-to-time. 

1. Spring Star Flowers

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Spring Star flowers

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These charming little blooming plants hail from Argentina and Uruguay and form dense clumps of perennial flowers to chase the winter downers away.

2. Mixed freesias

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Freesias

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If a garden of beautiful scent is your aim, these are the bulbs for you. 

3. Jonquils

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Jonquils

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Want the best news? The sweet scented jonquil is the most indestructible and easy to grow of all garden bulbs, often surviving in abandoned gardens. Perfect!

4. Snowflakes

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Snowflakes

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Choose a location with full sun or partial shade and well-drained soil. If your soil isn’t rich in organic matter, work plenty of compost or composted manure into the bed before planting. Sprinkle a small amount of bulb fertiliser over the compost before digging it deep into the soil and you're done. 

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5. Bearded Iris

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Bearded Iris

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You definitely don't have to be a blessed gardener to have luck with irises. They're everyone's friend! 

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