Small garden with lots of flowering bulbs, such as daffodils, grape hyacinths, anemones, and ranunculus - O de R/Shutterstock Planting flower bulbs at the right time of year using the best methods for ...
Flower bulbs are being planted in a trench in a garden. - Natallia Ustsinava/Shutterstock Emily Dickinson thought hope was the "thing with feathers," but a flower bulb seems like a better metaphor for ...
Fall is in full swing and winter is just around the corner, but spring is only five months away, and now is the time to start thinking about planting flower bulbs so you’ll have those beautiful spring ...
Like watching the credits roll by at the end of a favorite movie, fall to-do lists for the garden contain lots of tasks centered on closing up the beds for the year. Harvesting, trimming back dead ...
It's spring bulb-planting season. My advice: Get yourself a kneeling pad and stout trowel, and set aside a day or two over the next month to plant as many little bulbs as you can stand. In March and ...
Even though gardening is often praised as a calming and peaceful activity, it can also be quite challenging. Whether sowing seeds or planting nursery starts, you usually have to wait a long time to ...
Planning now can replace the despair of drifting snow banks with eager anticipation of early bursts of color in your garden beds in late winter/early spring. Spring-flowering bulbs offer a tremendous ...
Welcome to our gardening adventure. Let’s grow it together! Many years ago, when we first acquired our current garden, I was enthusiastically putting in plants and pulling weeds when I came across a ...
If you haven’t already purchased your spring bulbs this fall, it’s not too late to pick some up. Many favorites are already snatched away from the enticing colorful catalogs, in print or online, but ...
Five things to do in the garden this week: Tree crops: Now is a good time to plant a macadamia tree. You will probably have to plant two varieties to get a crop since the trees are often self-sterile, ...
Emily Dickinson thought hope was the "thing with feathers," but a flower bulb seems like a better metaphor for hope. Tucked into the earth months in advance, bulbs are packed with promise of a ...