Bulbs in warm climates: why do we keep eating the same soup?
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Subtitle: Have you ever noticed what's on the balconies and in the gardens of our cities?
No matter how you look at it, in Mediterranean countries we always end up eating the same soup: the same geraniums, the same green plants, the same combinations repeated endlessly.
Do we do it out of habit? Out of laziness? Or simply because we don't know the alternatives?
I have worked with plants my whole life, and yet I still discover new ones every day. The beauty of this profession is precisely the experimentation: seeing how plants react, testing them, understanding how far they can go. And yet, there was something I kept hidden for a long time, even from myself. I held back from planting bulbs.
The false myth of "too much work"
I thought what everyone thinks: "Too much hassle. I have to bury them in autumn, watch them bloom in spring, and then? Then I have to dig, pull them out one by one, clean them and store them for the summer... no thanks, I'll pass."
Then I decided to break the rules and made a discovery that changed my perspective: many bulbs can be left perfectly well in the ground.
Daffodils, muscari, allium — you plant them once and they come back every year on their own. No storage, no digging, no stress.
The laziness that pays off: blooming with zero effort
To be clear: the second or third year the blooming will not be identical to that first day you unpacked them from the nursery. The flowers may be slightly smaller or less geometric. But compare that to the pleasure.
Without lifting a finger, without any effort and without going mad with storage, every single spring you see those shoots breaking through the soil. It is an enormous emotion that repeats itself, year after year.
If you live in a warm or Mediterranean climate, stop doing what everyone else does. Break the monotony of the "usual soup" and plant some bulbs this autumn: the earth will work for you while you enjoy the show.
👉 Click here to discover our collection of flowering bulbs
🇬🇧 P.S. The photo of the tulips is from my own garden — they were planted 10 years ago and still come back every year.
Luigi Paolicchi — piantedappartamento.shop