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Flower Bulbs & Tubers

Flower bulbs and tubers are perfect for providing perennial colour in your garden and home. It's our policy to supply garden bulbs of a size to ensure good flowering performance, so they should provide you with better results than smaller bulbs you may see elsewhere. For more flower growing options browse our affordable flower seeds and flowering plant collections.

Allium Bulbs

Allium bulbs, also known as ornamental onions are easy to grow. With flower shades of white through to purple available ...
Allium bulbs, also known as ornamental onions are ...
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Anemone Bulbs

Anemone bulbs add beautiful colour to your garden in early spring. Anemone coronaria varieties are striking in borders o...
Anemone bulbs add beautiful colour to your garden ...
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Autumn Flowering Bulbs

Autumn flowering bulbs give your garden the colour it needs in the darker months of the year. Choose from our wide autum...
Autumn flowering bulbs give your garden the colour...
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Begonia Tubers

Begonia tubers put on a stunning show in beds, pots and hanging baskets. These tender perennials will flower throughout ...
Begonia tubers put on a stunning show in beds, pot...
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Crocus Bulbs

Crocus bulbs are often the first bulbs to flower in the new year, heralding the arrival of spring. They grow very easily...
Crocus bulbs are often the first bulbs to flower i...
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Dahlia Tubers

Dahlia tubers are available to plant in spring for summer blooms that are the show-offs of the border with their strong,...
Dahlia tubers are available to plant in spring for...
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Lily Bulbs

Our exotic lily bulbs are easy to grow, look great in the garden, and make superb cut flowers for the home. Lilies are p...
Our exotic lily bulbs are easy to grow, look great...
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Gladioli Corms

Gladioli corms are an excellent choice for adding height and vibrant colour to your garden displays. These summer-flower...
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Hyacinth Bulbs

Hyacinth bulbs produce sweet-smelling blooms and come in a range of vibrant colours. Hyacinths are simple to cultivate –...
Hyacinth bulbs produce sweet-smelling blooms and c...
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Indoor Bulbs

Indoor bulbs are an easy way to bring the garden inside. Hyacinths add fragrance while amaryllis lend your home a touc...
Indoor bulbs are an easy way to bring the garden...
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Iris Bulbs

Iris bulbs are easy to plant and provide fantastic colour when they bloom in spring. Tall showy bearded iris ‘Cantina’ a...
Iris bulbs are easy to plant and provide fantastic...
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Naturalising Bulbs

Naturalising bulbs can be left to grow and propagate, spreading out over an area of your garden to produce a colourful...
Naturalising bulbs can be left to grow and propa...
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Spring Flowering Bulbs

Spring bulbs are perfect for early colour and interest in the garden. Autumn is the time to get your spring flowering bu...
Spring bulbs are perfect for early colour and inte...
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Summer Flowering Bulbs

Summer bulbs produce a huge variety of colours, heights and forms that brighten the garden during the warmer months. Our...
Summer bulbs produce a huge variety of colours, he...
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Bulb Mixes & Collections

Bulb mixes and collections make it easy to create a colourful, flower-filled display! Whether you want blooms in spring ...
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Colour Themed Bulbs

Colour Themed Bulbs Brighten up your garden with Dobies range of colour-themed bulbs. From shades of yellow, blue, pink...
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Best Selling Flower Bulbs

From must-have classics to beautiful and exciting new varieties, our best-selling bulbs have been approved by the most i...
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New Flower Bulbs

Let us inspire you with our new flower bulb range! Our team of specialists has selected the following new varieties of t...
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View All Flower Bulbs

Flowering bulbs and tubers come in all shapes and sizes and they offer a simple and effective way to add vibrant splashe...
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Daffodil Bulbs

Daffodil bulbs here at Dobies give you fabulous colour and scent at down-to-earth prices. Stimulate the senses with sc...
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Tulip Bulbs

Tulip bulbs are perfect for colourful spring displays in borders, containers and rockeries. Choose from our diverse ra...
Tulip bulbs are perfect for colourful spring dis...
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Amaryllis Bulbs

Amaryllis bulbs are the proper scene stealers of the festive season with their large flamboyant blooms and brilliant col...
Amaryllis bulbs are the proper scene stealers of t...
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Growing flowers from plant bulbs and tubers

Here we answer some of your most frequently asked questions about garden bulbs and tubers.

When to plant bulbs

Spring-flowering bulbs require a period of cold weather to help them get ready and burst into life when the weather warms. Spring bulbs should be planted during the autumn for flowering the next year. Plant summer-flowering bulbs during the spring.

Always check the specific planting details for your choice of garden bulbs and tubers; some of the more tender varieties should be started or over-wintered under glass.

How to plant bulbs

Again, it varies, so always read the packet. In general you should plant your bulbs to a depth of three times their height, making sure the flat basal plates are in contact with the bottom of the hole and the tips are pointing upward.

Do bulbs flower every year?

Hardy bulbs will come back year after year, often naturalising over time to form clumps which join together in spectacular drifts.

What to do with bulbs after flowering

Let the plants die back naturally, only removing deadheads and old growth once it has yellowed and died. The bulb is the plant’s power source, and while the leaves remain green, they’re photosynthesising and sending sugars down to charge up ready for next year’s display. Keep watering and feeding your bulbs until the foliage has yellowed and wilted.

How to store garden bulbs

Some tender tubers like begonias are best treated as annuals and replaced each year. Otherwise you should dig them up and pack them in layers of dry sawdust, compost, or sand to overwinter somewhere cool and dry, ready for replanting in the spring.

If storing bulbs, first allow the skins to dry to a papery texture before packing them on paper in a cardboard box or in a net, which you’ll store somewhere cool like the garage or fridge.

For more plants which come back every year, make sure you check out our extensive range of perennial plants and flowers.

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