by Avery Beadle | Aug 6, 2024 | How-To, Hyacinths, Learn, Planting, Planting & Care, Southern States, Specialty, Tulips
Gardening websites, magazines, and influencers often extol the beauty of spring-flowering bulbs in outdoor containers. They are less forthcoming about how challenging it can be to achieve the lovely plantings they show. What’s so difficult about growing bulbs in...
by Avery Beadle | Jan 11, 2024 | How-To, Hyacinths, Learn, Planting, Planting & Care, Southern States, Specialty, Tulips
Note: This article is intended only for people in warm climates (Zones 7B–8B in the South and Southwest, and most of California). In its broad outlines, the prechilling process is as easy as 1-2-3. Order your bulbs by the end of September and request delivery in...
by Avery Beadle | Jan 8, 2024 | After-Bloom Care, Amaryllises, How-To, Learn, Planting
Potting an amaryllis is easy. You will find instructions in our article How to Pot an Amaryllis Bulb. Caring for an amaryllis is also easy. To bring a bulb into bloom, all you need to provide is light and water. Sunlight Amaryllises, like all plants, need light. After...
by Avery Beadle | Jan 8, 2024 | After-Bloom Care, Amaryllises, How-To, Learn, Planting
Many people discard amaryllis bulbs after they bloom, but it’s possible—without too much effort—to get a bulb to flower again the following winter. You will note that after a bulb finishes blooming, it has shrunk to a fraction of its original size. Producing those...
by Maggie Badore | Jun 8, 2023 | Daffodils, How-To, Learn, Planting, Tulips
Planting tulip bulbs might seem like a daunting chore, especially if you’re looking to grow a dense or large bed of spring flowers with hundreds of blooms. But don’t worry; you don’t have to dig an individual hole for every flower you want to plant. In this article,...
by Maggie Badore | Jun 8, 2023 | About Bulbs, How-To, Learn, Planting, Planting & Care, Specialty, Tulips
Squirrels can be a major challenge in the garden, because they often view a freshly planted bed of bulbs as an all-you-can-eat buffet. Tulips are a favorite of these bushy-tailed rodents, along with crocuses and lilies. If there are squirrels in your area, it’s best...
by Avery Beadle | May 18, 2023 | Bulb Articles, How-To, Our Bulb Growers, Planting
For most who enjoy spring-flowering bulbs, there are two primary seasons: fall planting, and spring blooming. For the growers in the Netherlands, the work is year-round. Follow along a grower’s year below. October: Bulbs are planted. November: Putting on winter...
by Avery Beadle | May 17, 2023 | Daffodils, How-To, Planting, Planting & Care, Specialty
A planting idea for you or your landscape professional is to add bulbs into your street lawn. A street lawn, road verge, or as it is often known, hellstrip, is the strip of grass between the sidewalk and a roadway. This area actually has many different names,...
by Maggie Badore | Mar 21, 2023 | About Bulbs, How-To, Learn, Planting, Planting & Care
There are three main approaches to getting bulbs in the ground in the fall: Poke, drill, or trench. Determining the best approach for you will depend on several different factors: You’ll want to consider how many bulbs you’re planting, your garden’s layout, and your...
