So, this year's bulb garden didn't exactly turn out like the Pinterest board, did it? Maybe the tulips bloomed two weeks too early, the daffodils looked like they'd seen better days, or your crocuses ...
Just in time for bulb-planting season, “Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden” (Timber Press, 2024) is at hand. It is written by Jacqueline van der Kloet who has designed bulb gardens all over the world ...
The magic of flower bulbs is irresistible. You plant these weird-looking things in October, and by spring, they’re transformed into graceful plants with velvet blossoms in vivid colors. Bulbs like ...
There is a local garden where 9,500 new bulbs were planted last fall in the formal areas and along the walkways, where more than 1,200 bulb varieties coexist to burst forth April through September and ...
Whoever authored the phrase "strength in numbers" must have been a flower bulb grower. Gardeners for decades have been planting bulbs in mass beds — at least 50 at a time — to intensify their colors ...
The broad, pleated curcumas are loving the sticky heat. The deep-green, strappy crinums keep their cool. The entire crowd in the Rienzi bulb garden, including gangs of iris, are gathered for their own ...
Bulbs are fantastic little bundles of plant potential. They require almost no maintenance at all—simply pop them in the ground in well-drained soil, water deeply, then wait for the show. After a long ...