Bulbs and Tubers

The garden's hidden clock. Bulbs and tubers wait out of sight and rise on their own schedule, opening flowers that seem to arrive from nowhere and then retreating underground to wait for the next year.

7 plants in this collection

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№ 001
Allium cernuum, nodding onion, nodding umbels of pink bell-shaped flowers
Wild Nodding Onion
Allium cernuumWild Nodding Onion

A graceful native onion, Allium cernuum, the nodding onion, lifts loose clusters of pink to lavender, bell-shaped flowers that bend over in a soft arc at the top of slender stems, swaying through mid and late summer above tufts of grassy, blue-green foliage. The nodding habit gives the plant a particular charm, and the flowers draw native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in good numbers.

Hardiness
Zones 4–8
Light
Full Sun / Part Shade
Height
12–18 in.
Spread
6–8 in.
Bloom
Pink
Plant type
Perennial
Traditional use
respiratory support, digestive health, immune support
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№ 002
Crocosmia 'Lucifer' with arching spikes of flame red-orange flowers over sword-like foliage
Montbretia
Crocosmia masonorum x paniculatus 'Lucifer'Montbretia

Crocosmia 'Lucifer' is a vigorous, corm-forming perennial and one of the best summer plants for the southern garden, multiplying steadily in good, moist, neutral to acid soil in sun or light shade. Tall, arching spikes of brilliant red-orange, flame-colored flowers rise over the clump through early to midsummer, held above fans of pleated, sword-like green leaves.

Hardiness
Zones 5–9
Light
Full Sun / Part Shade
Height
2–4 ft.
Spread
8–10 in.
Bloom
Red
Plant type
Perennial
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