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 in lawn. All grass areas are fair game, but a street lawn is the perfect option for a lot of gardeners. Also known as road verge or hellstrip, it’s the strip of grass between the sidewalk and...
by Avery Beadle | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog
by Tovah Martin Spring might still be waffling with winter, but the first dance is still staged by a few intrepid early risers, especially when you’re growing snowdrops. You spend winter dreaming about Snowdrops. While the garden is shivering through winter,...
by Avery Beadle | May 27, 2022 | Learn
The poet William Wordsworth once wrote of daffodils “dancing in the breeze,” and Shakespeare before him described “daffodils that… take the winds of March with beauty.” Biomechanists have determined that daffodils dance by design. In a paper entitled “Reorientation of...
by Avery Beadle | Jun 7, 2021 | Customer Service
Customer Service Frequently Asked Questions When should I order my bulbs? Colorblends accepts customer orders for bulbs from the first day of spring until our warehouse is empty—usually toward the end of December. For best selection, we suggest that you order before...
by Avery Beadle | Jun 7, 2021 | Learn
At Colorblends, we want you to have a great spring display. But let’s face it—planting is hard work. We suggest you order in small bites to learn what it takes to get bulbs planted in the fall. If you like the result in the spring and you feel you can do more,...