If you're a little hazy on when exactly you should be planting bulbs for spring you're in the right place. Overall it's pretty straightforward but there is a slight variation between different types ...

Slowly but surely, the chilly autumn breeze has us retreating from our gardens and into the cosy corners of our homes. But before we bid our plots farewell until next year, there’s one more thing to ...

After a long, dark winter, the appearance of early spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils are a welcome, colorful harbinger of spring. If you want to look forward to a garden full of yellow, pink, ...

Fall is the season to plant bulbs for early spring color. You can have a colorful garden very early next spring if you plant some bulbs right now. Early-blooming Daffodils, Hyacinths, Tulips and many ...

Picture your neighborhood in April, when your heart is lifted by bright blue squill, white snowdrops and yellow daffodils. Aren’t there spots in your yard just begging for that bloom? “If you want to ...

Even though the calendar says it’s summer, it is time to plan for and order spring-flowering bulbs for your garden or container. You will have a better chance of getting the specific varieties you ...

Plant allium bulbs in the fall, around the first frost but before the ground freezes, to give them the chilling period they need for strong spring blooms. Choose a sunny, well-draining spot and plant ...

Within the vast catalog of flowering plants, there is a specific subcategory: those that grow from bulbs. Since these bulbs are hidden under the soil throughout the plant’s lifetime, it’s not always ...

I just returned home from skiing and found all the snow gone and some bulb foliage popping up. It is starting to feel like spring in the Chicago area. During periods of warm weather, early bulbs might ...

Meadows are trendy alternatives to big lawns these days as much of the gardening public aims to aid pollinators and beef up their yards’ native-plant inventory. For most, that means planting or ...

Thanks to their cooperative nature, amaryllis, hyacinths and paperwhites can be coaxed into bloom for the winter holidays. And no horticulture degree is required. Gardeners can humor these typically ...