We can all hope that the record-breaking low temperatures of the week of Feb. 17 mark the end of winter for us, but only time will tell. This past week felt like spring. With enough mild days and ...
As we prepare to bid farewell to the long summer days and welcome in the fall, it's time to give your garden a little bit of tender love and care to get the best out of next year's garden. There is an ...
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 ...
The bulbs flowering in my garden at home are putting on a great show as are the ones at the Garden. Spring-flowering bulbs are very effective for bringing early color into the garden. Bulbs do not ...
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, ...
The best time to plant spring bulbs depends on your growing zone. In general, you should plant bulbs six weeks before your projected first frost date. For many growing zones, October is the best time ...
You know what we love the most about March? The arrival of spring flowers! And two of the earliest are daffodils and jonquils, which burst forth in late winter or early spring with sunny colors that ...
Daffodils are one of the quintessential spring flowers in gardens and along roadsides. Daffodils are one of the quintessential spring flowers in gardens and along roadsides. Daffodils are among the ...
Planting spring-blooming bulbs like daffodils, snowdrops, hyacinths, and tulips in the fall is easy, but there are a few things to remember to ensure the best chance of a beautiful flower display.
Gardeners quickly learn that it’s possible to expand their flock of perennial flowers by digging and dividing clumps into smaller pieces, giving them free new plants. Not as well known is that the ...
Nature is waking up too early this year. At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, some spring bulbs were blooming on Valentine’s Day — months off schedule. And then it started snowing.
There are two times of year that spark joy in gardeners' hearts: When the seed catalogs begin arriving in winter, and when bulb catalogs arrive in late summer. For the last few weeks, I have gone to ...