How do I tell one garden bulb from another?!?

Casualties of garden reorganisation, sitting sadly in buckets....


Likely to be daffodils, tulips, crocus, snowdrops, muscari, bluebells etc.

How do I tell one garden bulb from another?!?
Without planting them and seeing what pops up, you could do an image search on each bulb name, then you'll have to compare them to the image.
Reply:while they are in bloom labelthe leave s and when they die back if you lift them stor e them like with like labelled this is good for setting out colour schemes next year bulbs can be kept lieing on newspaper in a drawer or a potting shed
Reply:if its in your garden its yours... if its in another garden its not yours, thats how you tell.
Reply:Go to J parker bulbs web site.
Reply:size and shape get a book from the library and make notes.
Reply:Just scatter them around the garden and see what grows. It is the best way to plant bulbs anyway.
Reply:hi the best way i can help you is if its a crocus it will be quite small about the size of a silver skin onion same shape the skin will be flaky and rough textured, a tulip will be a good bit larger they tend to be flat on one side and simular in shape to a roasting chestnut they also tend to have a redish outer skin that will be quite flaky, daffodils/narcissus are like a small onion off white and larger than tulips generally they look very much bulb shaped (light bulb) the top will be very evident of last years old leaves, snow drops are very small bulbs that are almost lemon shaped off white and the size of a hazel nut bluebells come in all sorts of shapes and are white some look like peanut shell shaped but the majority are quite round they will be very watery if crushed muscary are awful bullbs that take over have very insignificant flowers and are very likely to green on the tops of some of them also they may even be sprouting they never seem to stop one of the problems with them they look like grass in the boarder all the time when did you lift them?
Reply:should tell you on the packet