SPRING AWAKENING: The Best Flower Bulb Picks for the First Blooms of Spring

It is always exciting to see the first pops of long-awaited color emerge from the ground after a long, dreary winter.

There are several fall-planted flower bulb varieties that signal the onset of spring. Most of these are PERFECT for creating an early spring bulb lawn. Here are a few of our easy to grow favorites!

Crocus

Crocus grows well in borders, lawns, under trees, and shrubs and in containers. It naturalizes well and is beneficial to our pollinators who are starving after a long winter.

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Chionodoxa

Chionodoxa, or 'Glory of the Snow', is another early spring bloomer that is a favorite of our pollinators. It is deer and critter resistant and naturalizes well to return each year. Plant in containers, borders, rock gardens and mass plantings.

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Iris reticulata

Iris reticulata, or 'dwarf iris', is a low growing spring favorites that grows well in containers, borders, rock gardens and mass plantings. It is deer and critter resistant, drought tolerant, and produces a sweet fragrance.

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Eranthis

Eranthis, commonly called 'Snowdrops', is deer and critter resistant, naturalizes well, and is beneficial to pollinators. Get ready for beautiful indoor bud vases filled with fresh cut snowdrop blooms! Galanthus are excellent for cut flowers.

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Galanthus

Galanthus, or ‘dwarf iris, is a low growing spring favorites that grows well in containers, borders, rock gardens and mass plantings. It is deer and critter resistant, drought tolerant, and produces a sweet fragrance.

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Hyacinths

Hyacinths are one of the most well-known early spring blooming flower bulbs. Its delightfully sweet fragrance makes it perfect for patio containers, cutting gardens, borders and walkways. Hyacinths are also deer and critter resistant.

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Start your spring blooming season ahead of the game with these easy to grow, early blooming favorites! Just dig, drop and you are done in the fall to enjoy beautiful color in spring!