CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the holiday decorations come down and winter seems to drag on in Northeast Ohio, forced flower bulbs ...

Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter conditions tricks bulbs into blooming early by chilling them before ...

Forcing is a horticultural term that means manipulating a plant’s environment, primarily the light and temperature, to get it to bloom at the desired time. Although you may not realize it, you are ...

As winter settles in with days getting colder, Michigan skies get cloudier, we gardeners start to get antsy for the beginning of the growing season and longing for spring flowers to bloom. We can give ...

Last week I wrote that I’d go over the process of bulb forcing. So, here goes! The definition of “forcing” a bulb is to get it to grow and bloom at a time when it usually wouldn’t. You’ve all seen ...

Before Page Dickey and Francis Bosco Schell spent a single night in their house in northwestern Connecticut, clay pots of flower bulbs slumbered there, setting down roots in a space of their own. The ...

November is the gloomiest month of all. It’s cold and raw, but usually without enough snow to cross country ski on. It rains nearly every day, or seems like it does. The garden is put to bed, or if ...

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. Winter, I regret to inform you, is here. No, not by the calendar. But it's cold and raw outside and it gets dark early, and I've taken out my long johns and flannel-lined jeans. So ...

Forcing bulbs brings the beauty of spring flowers inside your home during the cold winter months. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up ...