Tulips

Spring and tulips are nearly synonymous. In-home gardens throughout the country, just as here at Kingwood Center in Mansfield, Ohio, where over 100,000 bulbs are planted each fall, many different

Now, and every year at this time, a wonderful gardening ritual is taking place. Gardeners, by the hundreds of thousands, are planting millions of tulip bulbs shaped like dark brown

Earliest April coaxes out the white, yellow, and purple of tulip time’s advance color-bearer—the species tulip Tulipa biflora—with the whole glorious army of species tulips following close behind.  For these

The two main groups of tulips are early and the May or main-season kinds. The early group contains the species or botanical kinds, any of which are small in size

Most of us are familiar with the showy large-flowered tulips that decorate our gardens and public parks in the spring. Yet I wonder how many are acquainted with the delightful

Most home gardeners are familiar with the fascinating story of the tulip mania which took place in Holland before the middle of the seventeenth century.  The development of the classification

Although contrasting tulips with perennials is an old gardening trick, a variation is seen in the above photograph, where tulips are surrounded by low-growing, spreading perennials.  The white plant (above),

In our time, only some of the older and larger firms of Holland worked at originating new tulips before the 1930s.  After the thirties, perhaps to divert their thoughts from

Why be content with only two weeks of tulips when you can enjoy their wonderful flowers for two months?  It is all a matter of selecting the right types and