Planting bulbs in the fall all but guarantees a beautiful garden come springtime. Here's how to plant bulbs both outside and inside, and the tools you'll need.
Also, they are great forforcing Daffodil bulbs to bloom indoors. As you already know, they are very popular cut and put in vases, too. Daffodils are squirrel-proof bulbs. Squirrels, chipmunks, and other rodents do not like the taste of the bulbs in the Narcissus family. And, deer do no...
Since a bulb contains all the nutrients that it needs to bloom the first year, the planting mix doesn't necessarily have to provide any nutrients, but I have found that using a good potting soil makes it much easier to transplant the bulbs to the garden later. The addition of bone meal...
Bog gardens work best when they're developed with a plan in mind. Tossing some moisture-loving bulbs into a soggy area of your yard does not constitute a proper bog garden. Some of the most gorgeous bog gardens are created in order to give an adjacent pond soft, natural looking edges tha...
How to grow Paperwhite Narcissus flower plants. Growing, forcing Paperwhite Narcissus to bloom indoors. Growing with The Gardener's Network.
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Hyacinths root better in not-too-cool soil, so plant them next, then narcissus, and finally tulips, which prefer the coolest soil. Don’t wait too late, though, because if the soil freezes down to the bulbs before they root well, health and performance will be impaired. To keep soil ...
Lastly, for large bulbs you’ll need to divide the plants every two to three years so that you don’t end up with lots of tiny bulbs and overly thin stems. The process is the same as when you divideNarcissusor other perennial bulbs in the garden to keep them robust. Luckily you can...
As soon as the weather has warmed enough that you start to see real growth from your spring bulbs – narcissus, tulips, etc. – you can transplant your baby onions out to the garden (see section on onion plant starts for transplant details). ...
4. Tulip/Narcissus Bulbs The bulb portions of tulips and narcissus contain toxins that can cause intense gastrointestinal irritation, drooling, loss of appetite, depression of the central nervous system, convulsions and cardiac abnormalities. 5. Azalea/Rhododendron Members of the rhododendron family con...