If you're a little hazy on when exactly you should be planting bulbs for spring you're in the right place. Overall it's pretty straightforward but there is a slight variation between different types ...
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 ...
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 ...
After a long, dark winter, the appearance of early spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils are a welcome, colorful harbinger of spring. If you want to look forward to a garden full of yellow, pink, ...
When gardeners think of spring-blooming bulbs, the top four plants that come to mind are crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and ...
All other bulbs may be planted into sunny, well-prepared beds now without chilling. Plant bulbs in holes dug about twice as the height of the bulb. Larger bulbs, like daffodils and tulips, are planted ...
If you've been curling up by the warm fireplace this winter, you may have just what you need to make sure your flowers are ...
The winter is long, dark, wet, and cold. When the first buds of spring flowers begin to pop in March, it’s like a hit of dopamine, giving us all hope that the sun will come out again, someday. But ...
Tulips, daffodils, and other spring-flowering bulbs are a little tricky because you have to plant the dormant bulbs the fall before (i.e. now in central Pennsylvania), then wait out the winter before ...
Spring blooming bulbs wake up our gardens with a mixture of cheerful colors. But then the spring bulbs complete their bloom cycle and the bright blooms senesce (sen-ESS), shrivel and turn brown, ...
Winter isn’t just a quiet season for the garden—it’s a high-stakes survival challenge for your precious bulbs and tubers. One ...
How I discovered a surprising way to outwit the predators nibbling our tulip bulbs ...