As the gardening season winds down, consider preparing a pleasant spring surprise for yourself. Fall is the perfect time to create a container garden of spring bulbs that you can enjoy indoors before ...

There's not much that rivals spring bulb bloom in the garden. The anticipation all winter. The inevitable forgetting where you planted bulbs or that you planted any at all. And then the show. It’s a ...

There’s no better way to guarantee a colorful, long-lasting display of spring flowers than by planting a bulb lasagna this fall. This clever method, championed by gardening legend Monty Don, involves ...

Bloom time is the most important consideration when layering bulbs in containers. "Usually, bulb layering consists of three layers, so you want to select three distinct flowering times," Bradley ...

Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to force plants to direct energy toward more blooms, more fruit ...

The more spring bulbs we plant in the autumn, the more spring flowers we will enjoy. I use a planting technique called a ...

Think spring! Late September to early October is prime time for planting spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths and alliums — whether you plant them in the ground or in ...

If you're looking for a fragrant flower that grows from a bulb, consider hyacinths ( Hyacinthus orientalis ). "Under a warm ...

True bulbs have layered bulb scales, a basal plate and a protective tunic,” writes columnist Tom Karwin. “Most are planted in ...

More gardeners are building fall gardens even after missing spring planting, using cooler weather to grow quick crops and ...

It is officially spring, and we are fortunate to have many species of bulbs that are flowering in Central Jersey right now. Spring bulbs provide some of the first colorful blooms of the season and are ...