Bulbs
Stocking a wide range of bulbs, Capital Gardens can help keep your flowerbed and veg patches in business throughout the summer and beyond. From Narcissus to Iris and almost everything in between, our range of bulbs are designed to thrive in the great British weather.
All of the bulbs in the Capital Gardens range are sourced from expert growers and brands such as Taylors, helping ensure high quality flowers and vegetables. The wide range of styles, colours and scents available from our bulbs range can help complement all back garden styles and aesthetics.
Shallots and Onion Bulbs
Mainstays of an endless menu of recipes, onions and shallots are the perfect addition to the vegetable patch. Simple to grow in the spring in UK, onions and shallots don’t need a lot of room to flower, helping supply you with beautiful veg throughout the year. At Capital Gardens, we stock a wide range of bulbs for onions and shallots. The beautiful Onion Senshyu Bulbs grows versatile onions, well-suited to a wide range of dishes and recipes.
We also stock a great selection of garlic bulbs – keeping you in plentiful stock of one of the most popular and versatile flavourings.
Flower Bulbs
The bulk of our bulbs stock is made up by flowers bulbs – helping you grow a wide range of beautiful flowers in the garden. From traditional UK gardens staples to more exotic and unusual flowers; Capital Gardens can help you cultivate your perfect garden appearance and scent.
The Muscari Valerie Finnis bulbs from Taylors blossom in the springtime, offering a beautiful appeal throughout the summer months – flowering for a particularly long time.
For more help selecting the perfect bulbs for your flowerbed or vegetable patch, or help nourishing and growing the plants – the Capital Gardens team are more than happy to offer assistance and expert advice. Simply call us on 01442 875 037 and we will endeavour to help in any way we can.
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FILL A BAG OF DAFFS – 2 FOR £7.99
£4.99FILL A BAG OF DAFFS – 2 FOR £7.99
Fill a bag in store full of daffodil bulbs. Fill a bag with one variety or mix your bulbs to make your own combinations. A stunning range of varieties available in all shapes, sizes and colours.
Varieties available include:
Actaea, Barrett Browning, Geranium, Sacajawea, Juanita, Pink Pride, Kind Alfred, Camelot, White Lion, Ice King, Double Fashion, Yellow Cheerfulness and Sir Winston Churchill. Each bag can hold roughly 20 bulbs and the colour combinations you could have are endless. Just incase one bag isnt enough, we have the bags on offer, 2 for £7.99!
This product is available at the following Garden centres:
• Alexandra Palace Garden centre
• Neals Nursery Garden centre
• Woods of Berkhamsted Garden centre -
FILL A BAG OF TULIPS – 2 for £18.00
£9.99FILL A BAG OF TULIPS
Fill a bag in store full of tulip bulbs. Fill a bag with one variety or mix your bulbs to make your own combinations. A stunning range of varieties available in all shapes, sizes and colours.
Varieties available include:
White Triumphator, Purissima, Golden Apeldorn, Giuseppe Verdi, Dordogne, Golden Artist, Flaming Parrot, Pinocchio, Leen Van Der Mark, Estella Rijnveld, Apeldorn, Red Riding Hood, Pieter de leur, Calibra, Doll’s Minuet, Shirley, Groenland, Angelique, Pink Impression, Fancy Frills, Happy Family, Maytime, Magic Lavend, Ballerina, Rococo, Black Parrot, Queen of the Night, Negrita, Royal Virgin, Spring Green and Hemisphere.
Each bag can hold roughly 20 bulbs and the colour combinations you could have are endless. Just incase one bag isnt enough, we have the bags on offer, 2 for £18.00!
This product is available at the following Garden centres:
• Alexandra Palace Garden centre
• Neals Nursery Garden centre
• Woods of Berkhamsted Garden centre -
Narcissus Tetea Tete Taylors
£4.99Narcissus Tetea Tete Taylors
One of the most popular varieties of Narcissi. This flower is mainly for smaller gardens and patios as well as front borders. They are excellent for cut flowers. Plant the flowers in well drained fertile soil and position them directly in the sun and partial shade to keep them healthy.
- Flowers during March/April
- Plant 10cm deep
- Height 15cm
This product is available at the following Garden centres:
• Alexandra Palace Garden centre
• Neals Nursery Garden centre
• Woods of Berkhamstead Garden centre -
Allium Ambassador Taylors
£4.99Allium Ambassador Taylors
Deep purple allium ambassador that measures approximately 18cm across. This type of plant likes Fertile, well drained soil and to be planted three of four times of their own depth.
- Flowers June
- Flowering height 100cm
- Excellent for cut flowers
- Plant in sun/shade areas
- Ideal for pollinators
This product is available at the following Garden centres:
• Alexandra Palace Garden centre
• Neals Nursery Garden centre
• Woods of Berkhamstead Garden centre -
Allium Atropurpureum Taylors Bulbs
£2.99‘Allium Atropurpureum’ blooms in early to mid-summer, when each of their upright stems are crowned with a rounded cluster of small flowers, that seen to hover like large beautifully coloured jewels about their foliage.
Each flower is made up of rich pink to purple petals surrounding a blueberry-purple centre which creates a vibrant and thrilling contrast of colours. The drumstick shape is perfect for adding a little diversity to your border, while their sturdy stems make them perfect cutting.
If left in the border after flowering, the subsequent seed heads will add months of structural interest.
Plant your bulbs 15cm deep and 15 cm apart to encourage their full effect. Avoid excessively watering from late summer when they become dormant. Over-large clumps can be lifted and divided in autumn or spring.
Height: 75cm
Spread: 15cm
Flowering: May-June
One bag contains 10 bulbs.
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
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Allium Caeruleum Taylors Bulbs
£2.99‘Allium Caeruleum’ is a striking blue ornamental onion which is perfect for a sunny border. Producing dense globes of small, star shaped, bright blue summer flowers on stiff stems amongst narrow, mid green leaves.
Since the leaves die back before the flowers emerge it is best planted with other medium-sized herbaceous plants, such as sea-holly which will help mask the faded foliage.
Plant your bulbs 8cm deep in naturalistic drifts from September to October with well drained, fertile soil. They will thrive if positioned in full sun.
Split and divide any large clumps in autumn or spring.
Winner of the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Height: 6cm
Spread: 25cm
Flowering: June-July
One bag contains 10 bulbs.
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
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Allium Cameleon Taylors Bulbs
£4.99‘Cameleon’ is initially dusky rose pink, and as the early flowers fade they mature to white but retain their pink veining. Perfect for naturalising in swathes or clusters, this relatively compact form will give you a refreshing display in patio pots or window boxes. You can blend them with rich pink shades as well as lilacs and soft blues for the most complimented effect.
Plant your bulbs 10cm deep and 10cm apart to enjoy the full effect of the flowers. Avoid excessive soil moisture, and split and divide any large clumps in autumn or spring. Perfect for the front of a flower bed or border.
Choose a location will full sun and well drained soil, will added grit for heavier soils and you will be able to sit back and appreciate your blooms from June.
One bag contains 12 bulbs.
Height: 30cm
Spread: 10cm
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
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Allium Christophii Taylors Bulbs
£5.99The Allium Christophii, also known as ‘Star of Persia’ features huge globes of small star-shaped, pink-purple flowers that appear in summer about narrow, grey-green leaves. When in bloom these beautiful globes can reach a diameter of up to 20cm, and have a metallic sheen. The faded flower heads hold up well in borders and are useful for dried flower arrangements.
Perfect for a sunny location, dotted in small groups among ornamental grasses, or within a Mediterranean planting schemes. These Alliums look their best when planted between medium-sized herbaceous plants, which will help to mask the strap-like leaves, that fade by the time the flowers appear.
Plant your bulbs 15cm deep and 20cm apart to avoid the flowers becoming overcrowded. Avoid excessive soil moisture and split and divide large clumps in autumn or spring.
They are perfect for encouraging pollinating insects into your garden.
Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Height: 60cm
Spread: 20cm
One bag contains 7 bulbs.
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
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Allium Gladiator Taylors Bulbs
£4.99Allium ‘Gladiator’ is a quick forming variety that produces hundreds of starry purple blooms with delicately silvery tips. A magnificent, spherical bloom that can grow up to 15cm across!
Flowering only once in a season, the blooms are soon followed by skeletal seedheads, they are perfect for a spectacular autumn display. They are undemanding and easy to grow, which guarantees that you will be sure to receive a beautiful summer display with added ‘wow’ factor.
Alliums thrive in light and sandy, well-drained soil with full sun. Avoid planting in cold and wet soils as the bulbs are prone to rot in these conditions. Plant your bulbs at a depth of 10cm and spacing of 10cm apart. A slow release fertiliser can be added to poor soil at the time of planting to improve fertility. When growing alliums, plant them where the leaves of the other plants will cover the base of their stems. This will hide the old foliage which dies back before flowering begins.
Height: 160cm
Spread: 30cm
Flowering: May- June
One bag contains 1 bulb.
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
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Allium Globemaster Taylors Bulbs
£4.99Allium ‘Globemaster’ are a large spherical variety that is made up of numerous star-shaped, deep violet flowers that appear in summer. The enormous flower heads measure up to 15cm, and are a real spectacle in pots or borders where they can be seen in their full glory.
They are also the perfect choice for a sunny border, dotted in groups among ornamental grasses or as part of a Mediterranean scheme. Alliums put on their best display when planted between medium sized herbaceous plants, which help to mask their strap like leaves that fad by the time the flowers appear.
It is no wonder why this Allium variety has been awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit.
When planting, enrich the soil with added compost and plant the bulbs 15cm deep. Space them at 25cm intervals to take full advantage of the big flower heads. Make sure the soil does not get too wet or waterlogged, and divide large clumps in autumn or spring.
Height: 80cm
Spread: 20cm
Flowering: July
One bag contains 1 bulb.
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
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Allium Miami Taylors bulbs
£2.99Allium Miami Taylors bulbs
This type of flower is known for their dark purple flowers with a half-semi spiky head. These flowers are a popular choice for the use of their cut flowers.
- Fertile well drained soil
- Prefers to be in sun/part shade.
- Flowering time is in June
- Height is 100cm (25”)
This product is available at the following Garden centres:
• Alexandra Palace Garden centre
• Neals Nursery Garden centre
• Woods of Berkhamstead Garden centre -
Allium Mount Everest Taylors Bulbs
£3.99‘Mount Everest’ is an award winning Allium of splendid beauty with its 15cm umbels of pure white flowers atop a sturdy and upright ribbed stems. The tightly packed spherical umbels bloom in early summer and can be left on the plant for many months.
This tall cultivar has an outstanding architectural form that is perfectly suited for gravel gardens.
Plant your bulbs 15cm deep and 15cm apart to enjoy the full effect of the beautiful flowers. Avoid excessive soil moisture and split and divide any large clumps in autumn or spring.
Height: 120cm
Spread: 100cm
Flowering: June
One bag contains 1 bulb.
This product is available at the following Garden Centres:
- Alexandra Palace Garden Centre
- Neals Nursery Garden Centre
- Woods of Berkhamstead Garden Centre
