The bulbs are plants that during their first days of life do not offer a great attraction; however, they hide spectacular flowers that fill our gardens with color and life. They are ephemeral plants, of short flowering and easy cultivation, ideal to begin to cultivate a garden.
Are characterized by having an underground structure that serves as a food and tissue reserve. This characteristic has made them genuine survivors since, thanks to this reserve, they can organize growth and flowering according to more favorable environmental conditions. Their underground store allows them to be for a long time at rest and start to grow in the periods of the year with better temperature. This operation makes the bulbs are showy plants both for their way of living as for their ease of adaptation to the different media and also for their great variety and beauty.
Types of bulbs
Tunicate bulbs: possibly the best known, are those that appear to have overlapping layers, such as an onion. In these layers is where the nutrients are stored. Within this variety of bulbs we find the tulips, the narcissus, the hyacinth, the onion or the garlic.
Flaky bulb: also known as imbricate, they are fleshier and more vulnerable since the last layers are more rigid and strong which protects the basal disc, located in the inferior part of the bulb and where the roots are placed. The scaly bulbs must always be kept moist before planting because the scales dry and become damaged, among the scaly bulbs are the lilies.
Solid bulbs: they are characterized by having a dilated dish and also cover a large part of the bulb with nutrients, are covered with thin sheets and are generally dry. They are fleshy in their totality by the abundance of substances of reserve of which sprouts a yolk that will give origin to the leaves and the flowers.
Have a good development in soils with abundant humus and some sand to facilitate the drainage, because if the water of irrigation or of rain stagnates they are in serious danger.
