Bulbs

Planting a bulb is one of the simplest procedures in gardening. Most planted this fall will respond and bloom next spring even if you plant them upside down (but please

Crocus come in about three main categories. Earliest of them are the species, of which there are many.  These are called winter-flowering, and will bloom at the slightest slackening of

The delightful, unpretentious charm of the small-flowered bulbs is the first attraction of the garden year. Without them, spring would be like a play without the first act.  Most of

Have you ever been curious about what many of the odd bulbs are in the bulb catalogs? Did you ever try to get a few new ones each year? It’s

Can you look forward to another season of colorful flowers when early frosts mow down zinnias, asters, and the other annuals in your garden?  You can, if you have plantings

It is hard to get in the mood for gardening or even planning for your garden when the temperatures are soaring toward the century mark.  That’s when it is nice

If Sternbergia Lutea had sat for its portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and if its descendants were painted today, the yellow faces would be identical. Gardeners have become so accustomed

Bounteous beauty can be enjoyed in the garden and the home with Fall-flowering bulbs. However, when most flowers are gone, colchicums, Autumn crocuses, sternbergias, and hardy amaryllis stage their gay

The English names for colchicum are “autumn-crocus” and “meadow-saffron,” which are misnomers. Numerous species and varieties of the true crocus bloom in the fall; the saffron of commerce is a

The lesser-known beauties are like frosting on a cake: no one would construct a garden just from these, but mingled with old standbys like phlox, gaillardia, and summer annuals, they