Featured Activity

Grow bulbs in winter
Forced hyacinths in pots

Enjoy the color and fragrance of spring-flowering bulbs while there is still snow on the ground, while learning more about the biology of bulbs.

Bulb Picture

rainbow of bulb watercolors

These watercolors demonstrate the spectrum of colors bulbs can create. Read More

Bulb Quote

I grow daffodils, and they're beautiful!

-- Captain Hook in the climactic scene of Shrek the Third
More Quotes

Welcome to the Bulb Project

Activities: Creative plans for educators.

Growing Bulbs: How-to information.

Resources: Additional information to help you plan and execute your bulb activities.

Retail partners: Information for bulb project collaborators.

Share ideas: Read how others have used these activities, and contribute your own ideas.

Inspired by Bulbs!

The Bulb Project has awarded grants of $250-worth of bulbs to projects around the country to engage children and youth in a variety of exciting and innovative activities.

Read more about the projects.

This site features creative projects to help educators share the joys of growing flower bulbs with children and youth, and use bulbs to help teach science, art, history and other subjects.

The activities can be used in many settings, including the classroom, after-school programs, home schooling, 4-H, community projects and other formal in informal educational settings.

We also include resources to help you forge partnerships with local retailers and garden centers who can share their expertise and serve as a source of flower bulbs for you project. (There are also resources to help retail partners publicize their collaborations.)

We also invite you to share your experiences with these activities and contribute new ideas for how to use bulbs in various educational settings through the site's blog, and read how others have used the activities. Click on the Interact link for each activity and resource to read more.

Tuber Talk

Bulb quilt planted at Myers Elementary
12/06/2009
Inspired by Bulbs grant recipients, Myers Elementary School Junior Master Gardeners, Gainesville, Ga., planted their ‘Learning Quilt’ in ...
Colchicums: In person and in scans
10/25/2009
Colchicums are fast becoming one of my favorite flower bulbs. Like most bulbs, they push up their foliage in spring and then die back. But they ...
Web roundup - St. Basil’s bulb mosaic
10/25/2009
St. Basil’s in bulbs - His Excellency Mr K.G. Gevorgian, Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, joined forces with staff at Keukenhof, the ...
Bulb ‘naturalizing’ tips (videos and articles)
10/04/2009
Sally Ferguson provides tips for choosing and planting ‘naturalizing bulbs’ — “… those that accommodate themselves ...
Art connections: Monet’s Agapanthus, Les Fleurs Animées
09/27/2009
Bulbs have long been the subject of art. Here are two examples, from the sublime to the somewhat ridiculous. Claude Monet is probably most famous ...