Bulbs

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A Primer for Planting Bulbs

Guidelines for purchasing and planting bulbs, as well as how to incorporate them in your garden design.

Autumn is the Time to Plant Bulbs

If you want colorful surprises poking up in the spring, you need to plant bulbs in autumn—after the first hard frost but before the ground gets too cold.

Bulb Tips

Questions and answers about how to plant bulbs in your garden.

Bulbs for Western Gardens

Suggestions for planting and designing with bulbs. Regular care of newly planted bulbs during the first year will pay off with many years of low care color.

Bulbs: Continuing the Bloom

The art of having a bulb garden is learning to design with them. What this boils down to is considering when each variety blooms.

Designing with Bulbs

Ways to group bulbs for maximum design effect. Hints for selecting and planting bulbs in your garden and in your lawn.

Forcing Bulbs for Early Indoor Color

Forcing your bulbs to bloom earlier by starting them indoors. Selection, starting, storage, and planting of early-blooming bulbs in containers indoors.

Garden Designs and Spring Blooming Bulbs

Suggestions for the bulb garden—perennial companion plants, bulb planting diagrams, wildflower bulbs, and layering bulbs for months of blooming color.

It’s Bulb Planting Time!

Bulbs can be planted from early September to late November or until the soil freezes.

Make Spring Happen: Force a Bulb

In the dead of winter do you get a little anxious for spring? Try forcing bulbs to bloom.

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