by Marde Ross | Jan 19, 2012 | Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs
Bulbs can be ordered at any time during the year, but the delivery is usually from September through January for spring flowering blooms. Spring crocus (which needs pre-chilling) and fall blooming, Crocus Sativus (which does not require chilling) are available. Crocus...
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 | Nov 15, 2011 | Gardening Tips for Daffodils, Tulips, Peonies & Naturalizing Bulbs, Saffron Crocus - Crocus Sativus
Most crocus require cold to bloom prolifically and beautifully each year. But there is another crocus which has been around for a long time and which has much different needs and conditions to produce both beauty and a useful product – that expensive spice,...
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