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The relative ease with which you can grow bulbs is the least of their merits. Bulbs are plants for all seasons. With careful selection, and depending upon your location, you can have bulbs bloom at just about any time of the year. Bulbs are also plants for all places: borders, beds, containers, and rock gardens. Shade or full sun. Whatever your choice or circumstance, there's a bulb to fill your need.      A flower bulb is really an underground storehouse and flower factory. The bulb has just about everything it will need to sprout and flower at the appropriate time conveniently built in. Technically speaking, many well-known "bulb" flowers are not really produced from true bulbs. For example, crocuses and gladioli are actually corms, dahlias and begonias are tubers, and many irises are rhizomes, although some are true bulbs. The words bulb, corm, tuber, and rhizome have essentially become synonymous in general use, and on this site, you will find all of them grouped together.      True bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes are an extremely diverse group of plants. Everybody knows the showy tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, dahlias, gladioluses, and crocuses, but there are many other more exotic and lesser known bulbs as well. Most important for the weekend gardener with limited time, many bulbs need be planted only once and with minimum care will come up and bloom year after year.

	Agapanthus		Amaryllis (Dutch)		Begonia (Tuberous)
	Caladium		Calla Lily		Camass (Quamash)
	Canna Lily		Colchicum		Crocosmia
	Crocus		Cyclamen		Daffodil
	Dahlia		Gladiolus		Glory-of-the-Snow
	Grape Hyacinth		Hyacinth		Iris (Bulbous)
	Iris (Rhizomatous)		Lily		Ornamental Onion
	Oxalis		Snowdrop		Squill (Scilla)
	Starflower		Striped Squill		Tulip
			Winter Aconite

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