After a long, dark winter, the appearance of early spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils are a welcome, colorful harbinger of spring. If you want to look forward to a garden full of yellow, pink, ...

Picture your neighborhood in April, when your heart is lifted by bright blue squill, white snowdrops and yellow daffodils. Aren’t there spots in your yard just begging for that bloom? “If you want to ...

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 ...

We are used to stores rushing through holidays and seasons, but it might come as a surprise to see spring bulbs among Christmas decorations at local stores. But this isn’t a case of rushing things ...

Spring flowering bulbs bloom in our climate between February and April. They add charming beauty to our spring gardens. Feel free to purchase bulbs from nurseries now while the selection is good, but ...

While it’s nearing the end of the line this time of year for most of the landscape, there’s one group of plants when it’s prime time to start them – spring-flowering bulbs. Led by tulips, daffodils, ...

The same cannot be said, alas, for tulips. When we first moved here five years ago, my mom sent me tulip bulbs as a housewarming gift, which I planted in various flower beds around the house. Some ...

Spring-blooming bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths are garden oddities because they have to go in the ground dormant the fall before in order for them to bloom the following spring. That’s ...

OUR CLIMATE AND soils here on the Olympic Peninsula are ideally most suited to spring flower bulbs and right now is the time to order with a late October/November planting date. Bulbs here will bloom ...

OKAY, IT IS October and that means all the vendors have spring flowering bulbs in stock! Now, today, tomorrow, go out and buy hundreds of bulbs. But why hundreds? Well, I repeat, our climate and soils ...

If you've been keeping a close watch on your gardens, you might have noticed some early shoots of green poking out of the earth, or even your first flowers of 2023 — likely a snowdrop or a crocus — ...

Q: I wanted to share photos about forcing spring bulbs in pots, which I’ve been doing here in western North Dakota for about 30 years. I usually have some hyacinths blooming for Christmas, with more ...