Bluebell Bulbs
Bluebell flower bulbs will be available to order from spring 2025 for delivery and planting in autumn 2025.
For those looking to encourage biodiversity in their garden, our Bluebell Bulbs are excellent for pollinators and provide some vital spring pollen and nectar. Lifted under license from UK woodland, our bluebells and inspected and certified as true, British bluebells.
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Nothing surpasses the sight and smell of a woodland full of scented Bluebells. We have carefully selected stocks and lifted under licence from British woodland.
- Inspected throughout the growing and harvesting period
- Certified as true native Hyacinthoides non-scripta.
- UK native and woodland grown.
- Bulb size: 5/+cm
- Height: 30-40 cms Flowers: April-June
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Specifically designed to help bulbs establish in pots and borders, without the risk of the bulbs rotting, providing an open and free-draining soil structure.
- Ideal for planting with Narcissi, Crocus, Hyacinths and other spring-flowering bulbs
- Universal bulb planting fibre
- 500gm bag - This pack is sufficient for 3 x 1-litre pots
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The ultimate tool for planting quickly and easily your plants and bulbs. A quality, solid ash handle securely fitted to a stainless steel blade, the traditional design is ideal to assist in planting your plants and bulbs into beds, borders and grassland.
- Made of high quality polished stainless steel
- Ash handle - sourced from a sustainable source
- Soft leather strap - ideal to hang up
- Perfect for planting wildflower plug plants and small bulbs such as snowdrops, bluebells, crocus and more
Making bulb planting easier, quicker and cleaner, our bulb planter is the ideal tool for helping you plant your larger spring-flowering bulbs.
- Made of high quality steel
- Automatic release on handle
- Duroplast coating - impact, elastic, abrasion, and corrosion resistant
- Perfect for planting larger flower bulbs such as daffodils, tulips, alliums, hyacinths and more
Our flowering bulb fertiliser has been specifically designed to help your spring-flowering bulbs flower to their full potential. Whether you are establishing in pots or containers, sprinkle a small amount into each hole prior to planting your bulbs. Also suitable for use in early spring to encourage your bulbs to flower well in the following season.
- Tailored to give your bulbs all the nutrients they need
- Can be mixed with compost or Bulb Fibre
- NPK - 12.11.18 + MgO
- Recommended coverage: 5kg per 200sqm. Apply at 25g/sqm
- Not suitable for use with Wildflower Bulbs
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Our bulb planting essentials pack has been put together for the ease of ensuring quick planting and a great display. The bulb planter will help you plant the bulbs with ease whilst the fibre will ensure the bulbs do not rot when planted into pots or containers. Using the bulb fertiliser will ensure your bulbs have all the nutrients they need whilst establishing.
- 1 x Bulb Fibre
- 1 x Bulb Planter
- 1 x Bulb Fertiliser
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Bluebells: Advice On How To Grow Them (And Why!)
These popular woodland bulbs are famous for heralding warmer, sunnier days. Often blanketing old or ancient woodlands, they often attract visitors to gaze and wonder at the iconic carpets of blue that they create. Growing closely together, they prefer undisturbed soils with damp conditions and can also be found along hedgerows as well as shadier gardens.
Having a distinct, sweet fragrance, they are popular with pollinators and provide a good source of nectar. As they can take multiple years to establish, they provide great ecosystems and will, over time, spread and therefore create the carpet effect. The Spanish Bluebells are a cousin of the native variety and will, if allowed, outcompete the native flower. We only offer the UK Native bluebells and can confirm these are lifted under license.
Fun Facts
Nearly half of all the bluebells are found in the UK. Bluebells are protected by UK law and can only be lifted under license. Also known as ‘Fairy Flowers’, they are often thought to be summoned by fairies.
In the past, bluebells have been used for medicinal properties and used in various remedies, as well as their sap being used for glue to fasten feathers to arrows. They have also been known to be crushed to make starch, which was then used in the Elizabethan period to stiffen the ruffs of collars and sleeves.
How to grow
Bluebells are ideal for planting during the Autumn months, but can also be planted during January-March, as ‘In The Green’ or sprouting bulbs. Requiring moist or damp soils, they will thrive in woodland or shadier areas where there is less chance of the bulbs drying out.
Plant 5-10cm deep and space apart 10cm, otherwise plant in small clumps for a great visual display. As they flower between March and May, they will naturalise over time and can become overcrowded. Once established, they will keep on coming back, make sure to separate the established clumps every few years.
Species & Styles
True native Bluebells are quite distinctive and quite different from their Spanish cousins. Native UK Bluebells have narrow leaves with deep violet-blue flowers that appear on one side of the stem only, ‘the shepherd’s crook’. Their drooping stems hold the slightly curled back flowers, which will have cream coloured pollen inside. The native bluebell has a light, sweet scent.
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