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If you haven’t yet ordered your spring bulbs, put that job on your radar because autumn is a perfect time to start planting for a blast of colour next year. Planting two to three layers of different ...

Autumn marks the ideal period for getting on top of garden maintenance, readying lawns and flower borders to flourish through winter and into the following year. It's also the moment to prep your ...

* What it is: Despite being a U.S. native species, the spring-flowering bulb family of Camassia is seldom planted in home gardens. These produce foot-tall spikes of blue star-shaped flowers that open ...

The same cannot be said, alas, for tulips. When we first moved here five years ago, my mom sent me tulip bulbs as a housewarming gift, which I planted in various flower beds around the house. Some ...

* What it is: This little-known April-blooming bulb produces hanging, bell-shaped flowers that are bright white with small green markings. ‘Gravetye Giant’ produces unusually large flowers for the ...

Specialty bulbs, sometimes called minor bulbs, reflect the many other spring bulb treasures that can be planted in fall to herald the next growing season. Because many are diminutive, they are perfect ...

Bulb planting should be in full swing by now, but I thought it might be a good time to understand a bit more about these wonderful additions to the gardens. When thinking about what bulbs to buy, look ...

Some time last autumn or one a few or many years ago you took a leap of faith and broke soil or sod and lowered into a cold dank clammy hole a dry seemingly tactile warm snowdrop bulb. Soil or turf ...