If you're a little hazy on when exactly you should be planting bulbs for spring you're in the right place. Overall it's pretty straightforward but there is a slight variation between different types ...

Even among other little brown blobs — inconspicuous detritus such as abandoned cocoons, say, or concretions of lint — the bulbs of species crocus look unremarkable. When planted in the soil — as ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: To honor my mother, I would like to plant crocus bulbs on her grave site. And of course the cemetery is going to mow them off in the spring. Will they survive, or is this a waste of ...

One of the easiest, and most satisfying, gardening activities I do each year is to plant tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocus in containers each fall. I keep them in a place that is cold, but not ...

Just because summer is almost over doesn't mean we have to say goodbye to fresh floral blooms. While the spring crocus is noted as a herald of warmer weather, the autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) ...

Propagation of a daffodil bulb. Scoring the bottom of the bulb with shallow knife slits coaxes it to make bulblets which, over time, swell into flowering bulbs. Lee Reich Wait! Before you put those ...

“I had trouble with squirrels and chipmunks digging up my tulip and crocus bulbs last fall. Tulips and crocuses are a couple of my favorite spring flowers, and I am planning to plant them again this ...

Color blocking – Mass displays of one color set against mass displays of another color. Lawn of crocus – Using a 1+-inch auger – which is about the size of a crocus bulb – drill holes right in your ...

Wait! Before you put those tulip, daffodil, crocus and hyacinth bulbs in the ground, do you want to multiply them? Sure, they’ll multiply by themselves, but you can speed up the process. Bulb or Corm?