Costco is a hotspot for gardeners looking to acquire new tools, soil, compost, and plant starters, especially when springtime rolls around. Whether you’re building your very first garden or you’re a seasoned pro with a green thumb, there are plenty of Costco garden items that are worth your money. One particularly popular new pick from the wholesale retailer makes gardening easy by removing a big portion of the grunt work: the Costco Fall Preplanted Bulb Collection just needs water and sunlight to bloom into beautiful spring flowers, making it ideal for anyone who might not have the time, elbow grease, or expertise to plant their own bulbs. 

The contained garden, which retails for $39.99, has four different rows of bulbs planted so that there’s still plenty of room for each to bloom. There are 25 total bulbs, which include two variations of tulips and two variations of narcissus bulbs (otherwise known as daffodils), all of which can attract bees and butterflies, drawing more pollinators to your yard and garden. The bulbs are meant to be placed outside in the fall and watered throughout the winter so they can bloom in the spring. They will all bloom at different times, so you’ll get to have beautiful flowers for a significant portion of the season, meaning even more time to attract pollinators for a healthy spring and summer garden the following year. 

If Costco’s easy-to-use pre-planted bulbs are enticing to you, it’s not too hard to grab one of these tiered containers for yourself and set it up for spring. The one downside is that if you’re reading this outside of fall, you might not have success, as spring bulbs are typically planted from September through November. You’ll want to place the garden in an area that receives full sun — which means at least six hours of sunlight per day, on average — for the best chance of success. You should also keep the soil moist, but not overly wet, to avoid drowning the bulbs or drying them out extensively. Instructions directly from the Costco website advise watering the small garden only once per month in the winter, but if you’re in a snowy or rainy area, you can skip watering it and let the precipitation do the task instead. 

According to some Costco reviews, you might need to do just a little work to get the container prepped. One shopper wrote that the bulbs came on top of the soil, requiring some replanting, so be sure to check for this. (via Costco) Many of the must-know bulb planting tips from experts suggest that bulbs need some degree of soil covering, but that spring flower bulbs can have their tops peeking above the soil. So, as long as they’re not completely uprooted to the point of rolling around in the package, you should be all set.