Bulb & Annuals Displays

Turn heads all season long with colorful bulb and annuals displays designed by Bloom! We create striking combinations of color, texture and fragrance to brighten shady and sunny areas alike. From cheerful container displays to dramatic bedding designs, any garden can be accentuated with beautiful, non-stop color.

Hop over to Holiday Decorating for winter color and professional Christmas decorating services. Then visit our Landscape Design services page to discover how we create landscapes rich in four-season interest with perennials, shrubs and trees.

A miniature chiweenie named Twig sits amongst a vibrant April bulb display of fuchsia and blue hyacinths and miniature daffodils.

Turn Winter Blahs from Drab to Spring Fab!

After a Wisconsin winter, there’s nothing that lifts the spirits like early spring flowers. The intoxicating scent of hyacinths and cheerful daffodil greetings are a delight to experience.

With carefully timed blooms, your spring color show can debut in April and last through mid to late June. Don’t worry! There are many beautiful squirrel-proof options in a wide range of colors.

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A garden footpath is lined with hundred of early Tête-à-Tête and Minnow dwarf daffodils. These petite Narcissus (the botanical name for daffodils) are utterly delightful and worth their two-season life span. Small Japanese lanterns add the finishing touch to this charming garden vignette.

The structure and dramatic 10″ globes of Globemaster Allium elevate May gardens from beautiful to spectacular. The longest blooming of the allium bulbs, Bloom! wouldn’t dare deprive a client’s garden of this botanical masterpiece.

The best time to add bulbs to your garden is after your landscape renovation is complete. Your trees, shrubs and perennials should be in place first. This allows for optimal spacing of flower bulbs in relation to other landscape plantings now and in the future.

To enjoy a spectacular bulb show next spring, a design needs to be planned the previous season by late summer/early fall. Bulbs are ordered in late Sept. to mid Oct. and then installed in late fall, usually in late October through late November.

Spring container displays, however, are installed in early spring with forced bulbs. It’s best to call by late winter for spring container displays. Timing depends on the weather.

Hyacinths are different than other bulbs as their papery skins, called the “tunic,” are shimmery and reflect the color of the flower to a degree. These Jan Bos fuchsia hyacinths look exceptionally brilliant in the sun. Blue and purple hyacinths have much cooler tunics. “Hyacinth itch” can cause a severe dermatological reaction of unbearable itching when directly in contact with skin, which we can tell you from experience.

The art of choreographing timed blooms requires thoughtful planning. It starts with visualization of how all of your garden plantings look and develop throughout the season. We consider many factors when designing a color show.

Evaluating growth-rates and mature sizes of new landscape plantings helps us determine bulb quantities and spacing around other plants. Gaps around slow-growing plants offers a great opportunity to add excitement with bulbs.

We start by assessing colors and bloom times of your landscape’s spring-flowering perennials. Understanding how to time bulbs with spring flowering shrubs and perennials is important for a striking color palette.

Tulips, grape hyacinth and white daffodils offer a Wauwatosa neighborhood an expansive bouqet of pinks, blues and whites. The bulbs are planted between other landscape plants. When they fade, flowering perennials and shrubs will fill out and continue the color show.

Late May-blooming Schubertii and Globemaster Alliums (right) pop up amongst sedum, salvia, phlox and other perennials like fireworks in the bulb season finale.

April daffodils, tulips and and hyacinths will color up your landscape before tree and shrub foliage emerges. Other landscape plants, however, will be filling out during an extended bulb show. Coordinating timed blooms and spacing daffodils and tulips to sufficiently photosynthesize for six to 10 weeks before going dormant. They need adequate sunlight to replenish sugar stores for next year’s bulb show.

Several daffodil cultivars in this landscape have been blooming for many years. The tulips are in their third year and are beginning to decline in numbers, while still showy.

A dramatic bulb display of timed daffodils and hyacinths creates joy and cheer to the surrounding community. A 7 lb. chiweenie sits amongst Marleke and Golden Echo Daffodils, taking in their light scent in the breeze.