by Marde Ross | Jan 18, 2012 | Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs
What are bulbs and corms? Everyone is familiar with the basic and most popular bulbs like tulips and daffodils which are true bulbs, but corms are important and popular as well. Anemones, ranunculous, gladiolus and crocus are corms. A corm is defined as an swollen,...
by Marde Ross | Jan 18, 2012 | Daffodils, Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs, Tulips
Bulbs are dormant when they have died back to nothing more than the brown, dried, fat root. That root has all of the nutrition that it will need for the next year’s successful bloom. It is important to keep bulbs cool and in dark, dry conditions until they are...
by Marde Ross | Dec 18, 2011 | Daffodils, Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs
Although most of the plantings on my property are not tasty to the gopher, I still have a big population. I think the family of owls that I discovered this summer has helped to reduce their numbers, just yesterday, I noticed a grouping of new holes with the soil...
by Marde Ross | Dec 18, 2011 | Daffodils, Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs
Although most of the plantings on my property are not tasty to the gopher, I still have a big population. I think the family of owls that I discovered this summer has helped to reduce their numbers, just yesterday, I noticed a grouping of new holes with the soil...
by Marde Ross | Aug 11, 2011 | Daffodils
Daffodils come in many colors, shapes and sizes. They bloom early, middle and late in the “season” which is compressed in warmer climates and spaced out in colder areas. Above from the left are yellow trumpet daffodils, Dutch Master, February Gold, Tete a...
Recent Comments