Bulbous plants boast such an enviable variety that there is a star among them not only for any garden and composition, but also for any season. The range of bulbous crops is not limited to touching primroses and bright spring stars. Along with those blooming in the summer, there are even rarer, but therefore more valuable bulbous crops, the flowering time of which falls on the golden autumn. Against the background of falling leaves and a garden gradually preparing for the cold, they seem surprisingly touching and precious accents.
Immodest Autumn Bulb Flowers
Autumn is considered a special season for all bulbous plants. And it is not only that such crops seem to be something extremely rare in autumn. It is in autumn, as in spring, that bulbous plants are especially striking, acting as the main stars of the design. If summer competitors are easily lost against the background of perennials, then in autumn touching plants that seem to have moved from spring by magic appear in a special light.
Against the backdrop of a gradually falling asleep garden, which is already shackled by the cold, the trembling and seemingly fragile flowers surprise with their beauty, adding fresh and cool shades to it. Even the most modest crumbs from among the bulbous ones are capable of transforming the autumn landscape.
The choice of autumn bulbous and tuberous plants is, unfortunately, still limited. But their range is far from being as boring as it seems at first glance. The crops that can please with their bloom against the backdrop of a crimson landscape include not only the legendary colchicums and autumn crocuses.
The best bulbous plants that bloom not at the beginning, but at the end of the season include:
- other primroses, or more precisely autumn species classified as spring crops;
- inimitable garden cyclamens;
- delightful bright liriope;
- rare, but no less beautiful species of flowering ornamental onions;
- dazzlingly sunny yellow Sternbergia;
- crocosmia that knows no competitors.
Let’s take a closer look at the best representatives of autumn-flowering bulbous plants and their inimitable beauty.
For a list of the best fall bulb flowers, see the next page.
