Here’s what you need to know to create a beautiful spring garden Gardens inherently occupy a fourth dimension. Plants respond directly to the passage of time: each day, each season, each year.
Planting a bulb garden is a great way to highlight your landscape and gardens, but the key to success lies in how you plant them in the fall. If you’re new to gardening, understanding when to plant ...
Provide pollinators with flowers as soon as possible by planting these bulbs that are some of the first to flower in spring. Usually one of the first signs of spring, snowdrops produce white flowers ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Late last autumn, I knelt in a blustery November wind and dug in the ground, planting daffodil bulbs. I was resolved not to spend another spring deprived of ...
Question: Could you give me some suggestions for planting fall bulbs so they have their best impact in the landscape? Answer: There are many ways to use bulbs effectively in the landscape. To begin ...
If you admired your neighbor’s tulips and daffodils last spring and wished that you had some of these flowers in your yard, now is the time to plant these hardy bulbs before the ground freezes if you ...
Mother Nature is such a tease. On warm, sunny spring days when we see masses of tulips blooming we’re enticed to plant while we’re in the mood. But Mother Nature says that’s neither the time nor the ...
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 ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — Fall isn’t just for mums and pumpkins; it is actually one of the best times to plant those blooms you see in early spring! You can plant your deciduous trees, shrubs, fall ...
In the field of horticulture, there is a season for everything. Late November and early December is the prime time to plant tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and crocus. The rewards of planting now will ...
All bulbs do best in loose, well-draining soil, and our native soil is often either heavy clay or sandy. In order to create the ideal soil for bulb planting we need to amend the soil in planting beds ...