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.
bulbs in early autumn,ideally September, and potted bulbs in spring before they come into flower. You can also plant 'forced' bulbs indoors in September – such as the fragrant paper-white daffodil (Narcissus papyraceus) – for flowering at Christmas or New Year. Is sternbergia a crocus? S...
Bonus #3: Special report: “What to plant for Specific Reasons.”This exclusive report is filled with practical lists for fine foliage plants, fragrant plants for indoors, fruiting plants for the home, hanging plants and even plants that take care of themselves. And if all of that wasn't e...
Below, spring’s earliest harbingers (all introduced species) besides theGiant Butterbur(Petasites japonicus) that’s almost certainly at least budding too, clockwise from top:Snowdrop(Galanthus nivalis);Hellebore(Helleborus spp.); Daffodil (Narcissus spp.); and Winter Aconite (Eranthus hyemalis) ...
The bulb crops include plants such as the tulip, hyacinth, narcissus, iris, daylily, and dahlia. Included also are nonhardy bulbs used as potted plants indoors and summer outdoor plantings such as amaryllises, anemones, various tuberous begonias, caladiums, cannas, dahlias, freesias, gladioli...
This is the part where I need to address everyone’s least favorite aspect of growing narcissus: The price of longevity is allowing the bulbs’ strapping foliage to fully ripen — that is, to remain in place until the leaves brown off — to fuel future blooms. Pro tip:...
These 14- to 18-inch-tall Mediterranean bulbous plants fail into three groups, such as frost-tender varieties used for forcing indoors. Garden paperwhites need an inch or two of soil above their bulbs in Zones 8 through 10, four to six inches in...
Daffodils, or narcissi, flower onlyonce each yearin the spring. However, with proper care, the narcissus flower will return year after year. Do daffodils self seed? However, with naturalistic drifts of bulbs, especially in grass, where you may want the daffodils to self-seed, youcan leave ...
uniform-sized cloves from healthy intact bulbs were sampled for RNA extraction and concomitantly intact cloves were planted in the soil, in a 30% shaded screenhouse, in triplicate randomized block design, 30 cloves per replication, at a 50 plants/m2density. Indoors air temperature records and pho...
Find out where to buy great bulbs at Flowerbulbs.com! Don’t forget to plant extra for cutting to bring some of that spring color indoors! When to Order Bulbs for Fall Planting Most garden stores start carrying fall bulbs by mid-September. Special bulbs can also be ordered months before ...