Category Archives: Bulbs

How To Force Some Bulbs into Early Bloom

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One month after planting=blooms

There is much fun in watching a bulb sprout leaves, set buds, and observing buds slowly open one at a time into lovely flowers. Rather like a slow moving video show, except it is right there in your own home, grown just by you for everyone to enjoy.

 Think about making yourself a delightful gift for January, just because it is 2012.  A few Narcissus bulbs are still available in some Farm and Garden stores that are loose in a box to personally select. Ziva tazetta is a good variety to grow this way, called forcing. Continue reading →

Spring Bulbs

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Fall planted tulips bloom in early spring

 The various varieties, different heights of blooms and striking forms and bloom colors of bulbs contribute so much to early spring gardens, we must have some to enjoy. Spring bulbs bloom from January through March or April and we love seeing them.

Now, as bulbs are appearing in bags and packages in stores, look at the varieties available.  Also, spend some time with fall bulb catalogs arriving daily to decide which bulbs you would like to see blooming in your garden next spring. Continue reading →

How to Plant a Bulb Pot

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 Into a standard 12 inch bulb pot, place a coffee filter in the bottom with one-half inch of gravel on top for drainage 

 Add potting soil on top of the gravel to a depth as deep as the second joint of  your middle finger.

 Peel the brown, paper-like covering from three tulip bulbs, remove any roots from the bulbs and place, pointy end up, on the soil.

 Add potting soil leaving just the points of the tulip bulbs uncovered.

 Around the outer edge of the tulips plant 5 daffodil bulbs, do not divide bulbs

 Add potting medium to cover the daffodils.

 Around the outer edge of the daffodils, place 5 hyacinth bulbs.

 Cover with potting medium to cover the hyacinth bulbs

 Using 10 little crocus bulbs, place them alternately with 10 muscari bulbs around the outer edge of the pot

 Cover with potting medium up to about 2” from the top of the pot. Water the pot well, cover with mulch and place outdoors in the cold and snow.

 If squirrels bother the pot, cover it with wire and weight the wire down.

 In early spring, remove the wire, and enjoy the flowers as they bloom

 

 

Select and Plant a Four Season Garden

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Forsythia

Forsythia begins the early spring blooming show, followed by flowering trees, viburnums, lilacs and snowball hydrangeas. 

 Then weigela blooms followed by Knock-Out roses, peonies and the show continues throughout spring, summer and into late fall with chrysanthemums, asters and fall trees with beautiful leaves.  Continue reading →

Potpourri of Early Spring Blooms

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weigelia

 My heart sings to see blooms appearing in the garden as crocus, daffodils, and other bulbs adding bright color to our gardens.  Daylilies are coming up; especially our native ditch daylilies that always come back in greater quantities than the year before.  It is amazing how plants sleep and grow roots at the same time, producing new plants each spring. Continue reading →

Purchase and Plant Spring Bulbs Now

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 The various varieties, different heights of blooms and striking colors of bulbs contribute much to early spring gardens, we must have some to enjoy.  Last spring, when tulips were blooming, I took a photo of Rev. Kay and Dr. Joe with their bulbs in full bloom.  

 Bulbs bloom from January through March or April and we love seeing them.   Now bulbs are appearing in bags and packages in stores, look at the varieties available.  Also, spend some time with your fall bulb catalogs that are arriving daily to see which bulbs you would like to see blooming in your garden next spring. Continue reading →