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Flowers for Spring

There are two flushes of bloom in the spring. The first one, supported by spring bulbs and woodland natives, begins...

Bulb Propagation

If you love root division, you’ll be happy to know that it works for bulbs too, via scaling, slicing, scooping...

Caring for Bulbs during Winter

When you plant bulbs, whether that happens in fall or spring, don’t forget to mix in a good measure of...

Lily Flowering Tulips

The buds of lily flowering tulips remind us of their Turkish ancestry: they have an hourglass shape that opens up at the...

tulips? yes, please!

I always plant tulips. I’ve had beautiful ruffled pink ones, and fringed parrot ones, standard, double, lily flowering, you name...

caring for hyacinths

The thing about hyacinths is that they don’t need special care, they need the conditions they have become accustomed to:...

the flowers of spring

Usually around this time of year I start to panic, look around and wonder where everything went? Where are the...

potted bulbs

With the weather finally turning I moved the gardening activities indoors. Surprisingly, the potted tuberose is in bloom, and so...

the bulb catalogs are here

The bulb catalogs started arriving in the mail, which gives me about a month to plan for next spring. Probably...

the first daffodil

It was so cold when I took this picture I felt sorry for the daffodil, poor thing who dared the...