Breck's Gardening Guide

Brecks has the selection and resources to solve all your garden needs. Our garden guide provides you with inspirations for plants for various garden locations, suggestions for common garden problem areas, and lots more resources to help you succeed with the garden of your dreams!

Location Inspiration
Garden Solutions
Garden Bloom Times
Gardener Favorites

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Location Inspiration

Breck's has a huge selection of top quality bulbs and perennials to create beautiful gardens for many areas in your landscape. Browse these solutions for the perfect plants for any garden location.

Borders
Create stunning borders with tulips, daffodils, roses, iris, dahlias and more!
Rock Gardens
Brighten up rock gardens with allium, crocus, cyclamen, hosta and more!
Ground Covers
Browse ground cover plants including geranium, hosta, sedum and lily of the valley.
Patios & Containers
Tulips, daffodils, iris, lilies, daylilies and tree roses are great plants for containers.
Hanging Baskets
Our top quality begonias make beautiful hanging baskets.
Woodland Gardens
Brighten up woodland areas with bleeding heart, astilbe, foxglove and meadow rue .
Houseplants
Add beauty and improve the air quality in your home with top quality house plants.
Sunny Gardens
Favorite varieties include iris, tulips and daffodils. Or try hollyhocks, columbine, lupine or gladiolus.
Shady Gardens
Brighten up shady gardens with hosta, lily of the valley, astilbe, begonias and heuchera .

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Plant and care of Bulbs

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Garden Solutions

Select the right plants for garden conditions. Breck's has a huge variety and we can show you which plants will meet your garden needs.

Deer Resistant Plants
Deer don't like to eat plants such as peonies, bearded iris, bleeding heart, daffodils and hellebores.
Naturalizing
Go wild and fill your garden with natural color with bulbs such as crocus, snowdrops, hyacinth, allium , tulips and daffodils.
Drought Tolerant Plants
Alllium, hosta, astilbe, agapanthus and salvia are great solutions for drought tolerant gardens.
Pollinator Plants
Create a welcoming garden for important pollinators with bee balm, asters, coneflower and liatris.
Cut Flowers
Grow your own fresh bouquets with tulips, daffodils , peonies, lilies and dahlias and more.

Tips for Planting Perennials

Tips for Planting Bulbs

Plant by Bloom Time

Plan for continual color in your garden by choosing plants by bloom time.

Early Spring
Early season bloomers include trumpet daffodils, hyacinth , cyclamen and double daffodils.
Mid Spring
Mid spring brings lots more daffodils, mid season tulips , and striking blue grape hyacinth.
Late Spring
Tulips continue in late spring as well as lilies, dutch iris, allium, gladiolus, and anemones.
All Spring
For blooms all spring consider planting muscari, daffodils , tulips and hyacinths.
Early Summer
Browse a huge selection of lilies including tiger lilies, asiatic lilies, oriental lilies, lily trees and WOW! Lilies.
Mid Summer
Choose from dinnerplate dahlias, powderpuff dahlias and XXL WOW! dahlias for color summer to frost.
Late Summer
Begonias, cannas, crocosmia, aster and sedum are late summer favorites in the garden.
All Summer
For blooms all summer consider coneflower, hollyhock, dahlias, and reblooming daylilies.
Fall
Many bulbs and perennials bloom well in to the fall until the first frost.

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Gardeners' Favorites

These tried and true varieties are always gardeners' favorites. Breck's offer a wide selection of top quality bulbs and perennials and the resources to ensure your success.