Before you can grow the biggest and best dahlia flowers be sure to take care of the tubers! Knowing when to plant, and how to properly care for the tubers underground before you see sprouts is essential to growing healthy dahlia plants. Dahlias are frost-sensitive bulbs so if they are ...
Nothing says Spring quite like drifts of flowering Daffodils or big bold Tulips and what would Summer and Autumn be without vibrant Lilies, Gladiolus and Dahlias? Flowering bulbs bring splashes of seasonal colour to your garden, and lucky for us, most bulbs are tough and easy to grow! They'...
Do you want to become the best flower gardener you can be!? Without a doubt, we’ve gotcha covered. Gardening is a wonderful hobby. As a matter of fact, gardening is practiced by millions of people. Avid gardeners like you, plant seeds and bulbs all over their yards, in beds, and ...
4. How to Plant a Flower with Potted Plants Potted plants make it easy to create a garden. If you simply don't have time to prepare the soil and nurture seeds or bulbs, you can simple transfer flowers from pots to plots. You just have to be gentle, so you don't disrupt the roots...
Windflowers, perennials of the Anemone genus, are usually grown from tubers or rhizomes, but they are generally grouped with flowering bulbs. Decide where you want to plant your windflowers. The ideal site should provide partial shade and offer protection from the wind, as suggested by the Uni...
The plant is often started indoors in a clay pot. Amaryllis bulbs are planted in nutrient-dense soil, and sometimes fertilizer is added to encourage growth and prolonged blooming of the flowers. As the shoot matures, it can be held up with a wooden stake, as the flower can get heavy and...
The flowers, also known as spathes, bloom for weeks, adding long-lasting color to containers, borders, mass plantings and cut flower arrangements. Grown from rhizomes, this tropical is also sold in florist shops as a houseplant.While not really lilies, calla lilies do share many of their ...
Summer-blooming bulbs, like dahlia and gladiolus, are planted in the spring. Spring-blooming bulbs, like tulips and daffodils, are planted in the fall. If planting only a few summer- or spring-blooming bulbs, use a hand tool like a spade or bulb plante
Summer bulbs:Also called tender bulbs, these bulbs are planted in spring and flower or leaf out in summer.Gladiolus,lilies,caladiums, andelephant earsare common examples of summer bulbs. Some will bloom later in summer or for a longer time, likedahliasthat bloom into fall. (See more:Summer...
Too deep and the little shoots near the root won’t get the necessary “winter chill” which makes it impossible for them to produce flower buds. Make sure that the top of the root and the shoots are planted no more than 1/2 inch below the soil and that the base of the plant is ...