5 best low-maintenance bulbs for your garden

Top 5 low-maintenance bulbs for your garden

The ol' 'set & forget' approach is always in style! - by Better Homes and Gardens

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.

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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.

1. Spring Starflowers

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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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If a garden of beautiful scent is your aim, these are the bulbs for you. But, if you want to display these gorgeous blooms in your home, remember to cut your freesias when they are still in bud and they can last in a vase for up to three weeks.

3. 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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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.