When gardeners think of spring-blooming bulbs, the top four plants that come to mind are crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and ...
Nothing says spring more than a garden full of color. Bulbs are the traditional harbingers of spring. There are many types of bulbs and the reason we grow them is that they bloom at a certain time and ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Bulbous garden plants are a category of geophytes, terrestrial plants with their growing points below ground on structures such as bulbs, corms, tubers or ...
Flowering spring bulbs add color and beauty to your garden when you need it most after a chilly, gray winter. But if you want to enjoy their blooms in the spring, you must plant them ahead of time.
Get spring bulbs in before the ground freezes. If apple picking and leaf peeping have caused fall gardening to get away from you, it’s not too late to get those bulbs in the ground that you planned ...
Planting bulbs in the fall is one of the easiest and most rewarding ways to ensure a vibrant, colorful garden in the early spring. Spring-flowering bulbs like tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and ...
Flowering bulbs can be planted in fall or spring, depending on the variety. Bulbs planted in fall need to develop their roots before the first frost and need a freezing period to bloom. Bulbs planted ...
There's not much that rivals spring bulb bloom in the garden. The anticipation all winter. The inevitable forgetting where you planted bulbs or that you planted any at all. And then the show. It’s a ...
Q: I wanted to share photos about forcing spring bulbs in pots, which I’ve been doing here in western North Dakota for about 30 years. I usually have some hyacinths blooming for Christmas, with more ...
Most of the time, winter means dormancy. As cooler temperatures start to roll in, many gardeners are focusing on protecting outdoor plants from frost, bringing potted plants that can't handle freezes ...
Spring bulbs are fairly easy to grow, at least when it comes to bug and disease issues and maintenance needs such as watering and fertilizing. But that doesn’t mean things can’t go wrong. Many lurking ...
Q: Here’s a picture of the bulbs I planted last fall. It was so cold last week that I didn’t get them out to the places I usually share them with, and now I have a patch of spring flowers on the table ...