Beauty from Bulbs Blog

Longing for spring? Get out your colored pencils and markers, print out these flower bulb coloring sheets and surround yourself with bright and sunny Narcissi, colorful Tulips, fragrant Hyacinths and spicy Lilies! Simply right-click on each photo, save it to your computer, and then print! We would love to see what you do with them. Email us at customerservice@johnscheepers.com with photos!

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Commonly known as Blue Grape Hyacinths for their form and sweet, grapey fragrance, deer- and rodent-resistant Muscari naturalize well with a succession of composite flowering stems. Muscari also force well. 

White flowers are showy and so very tranquil against spring ferns, hostas and budding summer perennials. You can create a succession of white flowers that will bloom from winter's last cold shoulder through the warmth of summer.

Nothing is better for brightening the gloomy days of winter than blooming Dutch Amaryllis. They are huge, extremely floriferous and spectacular.

There are few flowers more glorious than Hyacinths~they are the art, soul and fragrance of spring.

Giant Darwin Hybrid Tulip Daydream is one tricky Tulip. Keep an eye on it for it stages an incredible magic show that is not to be missed.

When bees awaken from winter hibernation, they are literally starving. They need the protein-rich nectar from early blooming flower bulb smorgasbords to survive and thrive in spring.

Eager, prolific naturalizers, Hyacinthoides hispanica Excelsior has over a dozen pendant, 3/4", bell-shaped, blue-violet flowers with darker marine-blue midveins on 12" to 15" stems.

Another one of our top five favorite Herbaceous Peonies for both garden display and cut flower arrangements is Raspberry Sundae. It's a must-grow for decades of beautiful, fragrant perfection.

While we love all herbaceous Peonies, we're convinced that Festiva maxima would show up on every horticulturist's top ten, no, make that top five, list of all-time favorites for display and cutting gardens.

Blithe, snow-white Triandrus Narcissus Thalia has been a perennial favorite since 1916 when she was registered in the Netherlands. Thalia has two to three, pendant, star-shaped flowers per stem.

Muscari aucheri Blue Magic is truly a magical gift from Mother Nature. It is incredible how this tiny little bulb can produce such delicate, intricate, fragrant flowers and such a huge spring show.