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Sunday, October 25th, 2009Colchicums are fast becoming one of my favorite flower bulbs. Like most bulbs, they push up their foliage in spring and then die back. But they hold off on flowering until fall — just when the garden could use a little jolt of color.
The variety below, ‘Waterlily’ isn’t typical featuring extra petals.
Here’s a [...]
Bulb ‘naturalizing’ tips (videos and articles)
Sunday, October 4th, 2009Sally Ferguson provides tips for choosing and planting ‘naturalizing bulbs’ — “… those that accommodate themselves fully to their new sites, feeling so at home that they multiply naturally, on their own, increasing in numbers year after year.” Read the article: Say “Hello Old Friend” to Naturalized
Spring Bloomers, Year after Year.
On The Bulb [...]
Bulbs deer (and other wildlife) don’t like
Sunday, September 6th, 2009Flower bulbs are “The perfect lunch box,” according to Leonard Perry, an extension professor with the University of Vermont, quoted in an AP article by Dean Fosdick. “Put them in the ground this fall, and I guarantee you the plant pests will come.”
There are ways to minimize animal damage, and it begins by not underestimating [...]
Free online ‘workshop’: Designing with Bulbs
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Each month, garden writer and photographer Nan Ondra hosts a Garden Bloggers Design Workshop at the popular team blog, Gardening Gone Wild. Nan chooses a subject at the beginning of the month, then bloggers from around the world post on their own blogs about the topic. At the end of the month, Nan [...]
‘Promises Promises’ - Spring-flowering bulb basics
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Spring blooming bulbs are all about promise. They sit there quietly in the box, under their crispy little brown tunics,waiting, just waiting to be put in the earth, to sit through the cold dark winter, only then do they erupt in all their glory!
That’s how Idaho garden writer Mary Ann Newcomer started her [...]
Fall bulb-planting confidence
Monday, September 1st, 2008Soon it will be time to plant spring-flowering bulbs across a wide swath of the northern U.S. And while bulb planting is easy, I remember being very nervous the first time I planted them.
So if you’re new to bulb-planting, why not connect with an experienced gardener and offer to help them plant their bulbs? [...]
How to grow bulbs: Share ideas
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Share your ideas about How to grow bulbs in the comments to this post.
‘Smart’ bulbs
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Some flower bulbs — including lilies and tulips — are ’smart’ enough to move themselves deeper in the ground if you plant them closer to the surface than they want to be, according to studies by researchers at at The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University.
The bulbs’ roots contract and literally pull [...]
‘Forcing’ bulbs: Share ideas
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Share your ideas about ‘Forcing’ bulbs in the comments to this post.
‘Naturalizing’ spring-flowering bulbs: Share ideas
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Share your ideas about ‘Naturalizing’ spring-flowering bulbs in the comments to this post.
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