Just a single bloom in a bud vase adds a welcome touch of color to your home after a long, cold winter! Homestead Gardens carries the largest selection of spring-blooming bulbs in the area, with over 300 varieties! We even have a selection of deer resistant varieties.
Not all bulbs are available in both stores. Please call store for availability.
Click Here to See What's in Stores Varieties in bold are NEW for 2018! Allium Christophii Decision making made easy! Bulbs are the gateway to the garden. Plant them now and forget about them. By the time spring rolls around, the garden will be full of buds ready to blossom. And, with cooler temperatures, fall is the best season for planting. Whether you’re beginning a garden for the first time or tending an old one, planting flower bulbs has never been easier. Bulbs are a fantastic way to start or maintain a garden because they spring back up each year without any effort. But the key is to plant them correctly now. Don’t worry! The hardest part is deciding which flowers and a color scheme to use. What bulbs best attract bees and pollinators to a garden? The answer is simple once one understands how a bee uses sight. Like humans, bees are trichromatic. Whereas humans base their color combinations on blue, red, and yellow, bees base their colors on ultraviolet light, blue, and green. As a result, bees cannot see the color red as they do not have a photoreceptor for it. Bees can see, however, a reddish wavelength such as yellow and orange, however, red appears as black to the eyes of a bee. Bees also see faster than humans, which in turn allow them to see individual flowers from a distance in large groups. As a result, scientists agree that a bee’s favorite colors are purple, blue and white. Our suggestion for gardeners looking to attract bees would be of course blue and purple flowers. Red flowers can be placed intermittently throughout the landscape, but most bees will ignore them. Yellow and orange flowers are popular with bees, but a garden consisting only of those colors might not be as attractive to the bee eye, as it is to the human eye. Once bees begin to visit, they will return, providing pollination to the garden throughout the summer, and subsequent years.
Allium Giganteum
Allium Gladiator
Allium Globe Master
Allium Graceful
Allium Mount Everest
Allium Nect. Siculum
Allium Pinball Wizard
Allium Purple Suze
Allium Rosenbachianum
Allium Schubertii
Allium Sphaerocephalon
Allium Summer Drummer
Allium Violet Beauty
Anemones De Caen Mix
Blends Of Beauty Daffodil
Blends Of Beauty Landscape
Blends Of Beauty Pink Blend
Blends Of Beauty Purple Blend
Blends Of Beauty Red
Camassia Caerulea
Camassia Quamash
Chionodoxa Blue Giant
Crocus Blue Moon Mix
Crocus Cream Beauty
Crocus Joan Of Arc
Crocus Lady Killer
Crocus Large Crocus Mix
Crocus Large Mix
Crocus Orange Monarcissush
Crocus Remembrance
Crocus Ruby Giant
Crocus Specie Mix
Crocus Tri-color
Crocus Yellow Mammouth
Cyclamen Coum
Fritillaria Early Fantasy
Fritillaria Meleagris
Fritillaria Persica
Fritillaria Rubra
Galanthus Flore Pleno
Galanthus Woronowii
Hyacinth Blue Jacket
Hyacinth Carnegie
Hyacinth Delft Blue
Hyacinth Delft Blue Mix
Hyacinth Easter Joy Mix
Hyacinth Gipsy Princess
Hyacinth Jan Bos
Hyacinth Miss Saigon
Hyacinth Mix
Hyacinth Pink Pearl
Hyacinth Tequila Sunrise Mix
Hyacinth Woodstock
Hyacinthinthoides Blue
Hyacinthinthoides Mix
Hyacinthinthoides Non-scripta
Iris Apollo
Iris Dark Blue
Iris Dutch Tiger Mix
Iris Eye Of The Tiger
Iris Florentine Silk
Iris G Immortality
Iris G Ozark Rebounder
Iris G Pink Attraction
Iris G Tennison Ridge
Iris Katharine Hodgekin
Iris Pink Panther
Iris Sapphire Beauty
Iris Specie Iris Mix
Iris Victoria Falls
Iris Yellow
Iris Yellow Queen
Ixia Hybrid Mixture
Leucojum Aestivum
Lilium Claude Shride
Lilium Or Casa Blanca
Lilium Or Mix Valuepack
Lilium Or Stargazer
Lycoris Aurea
Lycoris Radiata
Lycoris Surprise Lily Pink
Muscari Album
Muscari Armeniacum
Muscari Dark Eyes
Muscari Delft Blue Mix
Muscari Golden Fragrance
Muscari Peppermint
Muscari Valerie Finnis
Narcissus Akita
Narcissus All In One Mix
Narcissus Altruist
Narcissus Bravoure
Narcissus Butterfly Mix
Narcissus Cool Flame
Narcissus Double Mix
Narcissus Double Poets
Narcissus Dinnerplate
Narcissus Double Fashion
Narcissus Dutch Master
Narcissus Eaton Song
Narcissus Exception
Narcissus February Gold
Narcissus Fortissimo
Narcissus Fortune
Narcissus Gazelle
Narcissus Geranium
Narcissus Gold & Silver Medalist
Narcissus Golden Echo
Narcissus Holland Sensation
Narcissus Ice Follies
Narcissus Jetfire
Narcissus Jonquilla Golden Echo
Narcissus Jumbo Mix
Narcissus King Alfred Lg Pack
Narcissus Large Cupped Mix
Narcissus Minnow
Narcissus Misty Glen
Narcissus Mixture
Narcissus Mount Hood
Narcissus New Baby
Narcissus Obdam
Narcissus Pink Charm
Narcissus Pink Mix
Narcissus Pink Paradise
Narcissus Pink Parasol
Narcissus Pink Ribbon
Narcissus Pipit
Narcissus Poets Daffodil
Narcissus Popeye
Narcissus Red Devon
Narcissus Red Ranger
Narcissus Rijnveld’s Early Sensation
Narcissus Rip Van Winkle
Narcissus Rock Garden Mix
Narcissus Rosy Cloud
Narcissus Scarlet Gem
Narcissus Scarlet O’Hara
Narcissus Sempre Avanti
Narcissus Snowboard
Narcissus Tahiti
Narcissus Tazetta Scarlet Gem
Narcissus Tete A Tete
Narcissus Thalia
Narcissus Trumpet Mix
Narcissus White Lion
Narcissus White Mix
Narcissus Yellow Mix
Narcissus Yellow Cheerfulness
Paeonia Karl Rosenfield
Paeonia Sarah Bernhardt
Paeonia Shirley Temple
Puschkinia Libanotica
Ranunculus Mix
Scilla Siberica
Trillium Grandiflorum
Trillium Luteum
Tulip Affaire
Tulip Apeldoorns Elite
Tulip Apricot Beauty
Tulip Banja Luka
Tulip Beauty Of Spring
Tulip Black Jack
Tulip Black Parrot
Tulip Bronze Charm
Tulip Brownie
Tulip Bty Of Apeldoorn
Tulip Burgundy
Tulip Candy Apple Delight
Tulip Casa Grande
Tulip Catharina
Tulip Coffee & Donut Mix
Tulip Danceline
Tulip Daydream
Tulip Del Pierro
Tulip Design Impression
Tulip Dordogne
Tulip Double Late Mix
Tulip Double Late Danceline
Tulip Double Late Miranda
Tulip Double Late Touchdown Dance Mixture
Tulip Dutch Prince Mix
Tulip Easter Joy Mix
Tulip Elegant Lady
Tulip Endless Spr Pur Blend
Tulip Estella Rijnveld
Tulip Fashion
Tulip Flaming Parrot
Tulip Foxy Foxtrot
Tulip Golden Parade
Tulip Hakuun
Tulip Hella Lights
Tulip Holland Emotions
Tulip Hollandia
Tulip Jellyfish Mix
Tulip La Courtine
Tulip Lilac Wonder
Tulip Lily Flowering Mix
Tulip Lily Flowering Whispering Dream
Tulip Little Beauty
Tulip Magic Lavender
Tulip Maureen
Tulip Menton
Tulip Miranda
Tulip Mount Tacoma
Tulip New Santa
Tulip Nightrider
Tulip Orange Balloon
Tulip Orange Emperor
Tulip Oxford
Tulip Parade
Tulip Parade Lg Pack
Tulip Parrot Mix
Tulip Passionale
Tulip Paul Scherer
Tulip Peppermint Stick
Tulip Persian Pearl
Tulip Pink Impression
Tulip Pink Star
Tulip Princess Irene
Tulip Purple Peony
Tulip Purple Prince
Tulip Purple Rain Mix
Tulip Quebec
Tulip Queen Of Night
Tulip Rainbow Mix
Tulip Red & Yellow Mix
Tulip Red Impression
Tulip Red Madonna
Tulip Red Paradise
Tulip Red Riding Hood
Tulip Royal Prince Mix
Tulip Sancerre
Tulip Silver Parrot Design
Tulip Singapore
Tulip Single Late Mix
Tulip Single Late La Courtine
Tulip Single Early Red Paradise
Tulip Single Early Dutch Prince Mixture
Tulip Sky High Scarlet
Tulip Spring Green
Tulip Stresa
Tulip Sunlover
Tulip Sunny Prince
Tulip Teq Sunrise Mix
Tulip The Cure
Tulip Touchdown Dance Mix
Tulip Triumph Coffee & Donut Mixture
Tulip Triumph Jellyfish Mixture
Tulip Tubergen’s Gem
Tulip Victoria’s Secret
Tulip Wedding Gift
Tulip Whispering Dream
Tulip White Elegance
Tulip White Emperor
Tulip Wildflower Mix
Tulip World Expression2018 Fall Blends of Beauty Bulb Collections
Simple Tips for Designing and Planting Fall Flower Bulbs
Bulbs & Bees
Most bees, particularly honeybees, hibernate in winter by forming a cluster within their hive to keep the queen warm. They store food reserves for the winter months and essentially blanket the queen until the temperatures begin to rise. As winter ends and spring slowly begins the need for food causes some to leave the hive and forage. By planting the right bulbs, home gardeners can not only attract pollinators to their gardens in early spring and throughout summer, but they can also provide food to a hive that is dealing with dwindling resources. Bees won’t travel too far in early spring, so home gardeners are best planting large areas of bulbs to create smaller distance for them to travel for pollen. For instance, plant bulbs like crocus in large swaths on the lawn to create a naturalistic setting, and also a bee playground.
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