There are over 50 different types of spring-blooming crocus bulbs in colors ranging from white or pale pink and lavender to more intense shades of showy blue-violet, purple, orange, pink, or ruby, ...
Dear Master Gardener: I am designing a memorial garden at our church and was wondering about planting crocus bulbs this fall. There is a verse in the Bible that says, “The desert shall rejoice and ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! There is still time to plant some spring flowering bulbs. You can plant spring-blooming bulbs such as daffodils, tulips, crocus, and hyacinth when ground ...
If there's anyone who knows a thing or two about gardening, it's Martha Stewart. In addition to her various gardening books and entire home and garden media empire, she continues to grow and nurture ...
The first crocus to bloom is a sure sign that spring is on its way. There is nothing better after a long, hard winter than seeing crocus dot the landscape with their colorful cup shaped blooms. Flower ...
The Lunar New Year starts on Feb. 17, and this coming year is the year of the fire horse. The horse represents energy, ...
If you removed cherry blossoms and flowering magnolias from the early April landscape, you’d see that the very start of spring is a pretty empty affair. Yes, the whole plant world is now stirring, but ...
Many garden enthusiasts are at all familiar with the Autumn Crocus — colchicum autumnale — a cold-hardy, perennial that blooms in mid-September in our area. That’s primarily because it rarely can be ...
Besides the snow melt and the ice letting waters flow in streams, migrants are moving in. Within this past week, the first robins, red-winged blackbirds, grackles, juncos, purple finches, killdeer, ...
* What it is: An unusual bulb (technically a corm) that sends up foot-tall, lance-leafed green leaves in spring, then dies back over summer, then sends up leafless stems in late summer that produce ...