Explore the Garden
• Aquatic Garden
• Bonsai Collection
• Bulb Garden
• Children's Growing
Garden
• Circle Garden
• The Crescent
• Dwarf Conifer Garden
• Enabling Garden
• English Oak Meadow
• English Walled Garden
• Esplanade
• Evening Island
• Fruit & Vegetable
Garden
• Gardens of the
Great Basin
• Greenhouses
• Heritage Garden
• Kleinman Family Cove
• Lakeside Gardens
• Landscape Gardens
• Japanese Garden
• McDonald Woods
• Native Plant Garden
• Plant Conservation
Science Center
• Plant Evaluation
Gardens
• Prairie
• Railroad Garden
• Rose Garden
• Sensory Garden
• Skokie River
• Spider Island
• The Trellis Bridge
• Water Gardens
• Waterfall Garden
Explore the Garden
• Drifts
• Mixed beds and borders
• Raised beds and containers
• Shady areas
• Rock gardens
Take a colorful spring bulb walk with Jill Selinger and William Moss.
Graham Bulb Garden
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The Graham Bulb Garden is the place to go anytime in spring to see thousands of tulips blooming in succession with vibrant color. Dramatic drifts of new cultivars of narcissus, tulips, ornamental onions, fritillaries, and lilies are planted to ensure a constant color show from early spring well into fall.
Gardeners will find inspiration at every turn. The container collection demonstrates how to use bulbs in new and unusual ways. Look for specimen connoisseur bulbs artfully combined with other flowering plants; diminutive bulbs planted in raised areas for easy viewing; and perennial bulbs forced indoors for early blooming.
Bulbs are underplanted with more bulbs. Flowering ground cover complements clusters of unique bulbs. An innovative double-planting technique creates the appearance of bulbs blooming over a longer period. By mixing forced bulbs with bulbs planted directly into the ground, the flower show extends weeks longer.
Visitors can enjoy views of the Aquatic Garden from the elevated plaza at the Bulb Garden entrance or relax at the shaded seating area, perfect for garden dreaming.
