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 ...
Fed up with squirrels eating your spring bulbs? I used my mum's old-fashioned trick to protect them – and it really works.
Bulbs bursting with color are one of the best ways to light up an outdoor space, long before most perennials, trees and shrubs have begun to grow. Planting spring bulbs should result in a gorgeous ...
When gardeners think of spring-blooming bulbs, the top four plants that come to mind are crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and ...
Winter isn’t just a quiet season for the garden—it’s a high-stakes survival challenge for your precious bulbs and tubers. One ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Picture your neighborhood in April, when your heart is lifted by bright blue squill, white snowdrops and yellow daffodils. Aren’t there spots in your yard just begging for that bloom? “If you want to ...
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 ...