Fall-planted bulbs are one of the best ways to ensure your spring garden bursts with colour as soon as the snow melts. After a long winter, we love kicking off the gardening season with the most vibrant, high-impact display of beautiful blooms. Our fall bulbs pre-order has gone live, and there are so many spectacular varieties we can’t wait for you to see!
We’ve chosen ten of the most ultra-saturated, mega-colourful spring-blooming bulbs to plant for a garden bursting with energy and optimism this fall. It sounds like a perfect way to ring in 2023!
This supersized variety has double the florets of your typical allium bloom! Its rich grape jelly petals are densely packed in a perfect globe form, with a whopping 8-inch diameter. Reaching 4 feet tall at maturity, Allium ‘Ambassador‘ will rise above your other spring-blooming fall bulbs, adding whimsy and magic to the scenery.
The Parrot Tulip ‘Rococo’ might be the most colourful tulip we’ve ever seen! Their ruffled petals look like rainbow oil slick, with psychedelic swirls of red, purple, yellow, and green. This groovy fall bulb will surely be a conversation starter in your spring garden.
Pulchella, or botanical tulip, is a fascinating specimen that only grows to about 6 inches high, but its petals open wide, creating a starburst effect. ‘Eastern Star’ brings a bold splash of colour with jewel-toned purple petals and contrasting lemon yellow centres. Plant these fall bulbs near the front border of your garden, so they don’t get blocked by your taller plants.
We love these hardy, early-blooming fall bulbs—it’s common for crocuses to poke up from the soil while there’s still snow on the ground! While we typically associate crocuses with the colour purple, the distinctive ‘Orange Monarch’ has vivid tangerine petals with a deep burgundy brushstroke effect. What a perfect way to perk up the grey, slushy scenery in March!
This strange yet beautiful fall bulb looks like a tulip, and a peony had a baby! The tulip-like flower base sits like a cup, and a ruffled peony-style bloom sits inside like a scoop of ice cream. ‘Ice Cream Banana‘ has an outer shell of red and green petals with a banana-yellow pouffe in the centre—a dynamic display of juicy colour!
These striking perennial flowers aren’t quite as well-known as other common fall bulbs, but their jaw-dropping blooms always make for a memorable display. Fritillaria imperialis features clusters of bell-shaped flowers that hang downward, but a frilly burst of foliage sits on top like a crown—it almost appears as though it’s upside down! ‘Rubra‘ has magnificent coral blooms lasting up to 3 weeks.
You won’t believe the perfect purple and white checkerboard pattern that graces the petals of this whimsical fall bulb! The Checkered Lily looks like it belongs in the garden of the Queen of Hearts in the fictional world of Wonderland.
Highly fragrant and oh-so-vivacious, Hyacinth ‘Jan Bos’ has tightly-packed florets that look like cherry-flavoured popsicles! That super-saturated magenta shade is simply spellbinding.
Ruffled, bright coral crowns sit in a cup of electric lemon petals, creating the illusion of two flowers in one. Narcissus always reminds us of the charming English countryside, but the high-impact ‘Coral Crown’ variety is anything but quaint!
True blue is one of the rarest colours in the plant world, but Scilla ‘Siberica Blue’ always delivers with its cool royal blue petals. They only reach about 6 inches tall, but they bloom profusely. Plant them tightly together to create a lovely, lush filler for garden beds and containers.
We have hundreds of more beautiful fall bulbs for sale available now for pre-order! We even have winter-blooming bulbs, like amaryllis and snowdrops, that you can force indoors for festive holiday colour. Browse our full catalogue of bulbs to plant in the fall for a 2023 garden that leaves a lasting impression.
