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Protect Bulbs from Animal Damage
Ten simple ways to stop wild animals from digging, eating or stealing your newly planted tulips & crocus. Save your bulbs from hungry wildlife or destructive critters!
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Plant Bulbs Now for Spring Blooms
Learn a variety of ways to use bulbs in your garden now so you will enjoy colorful flowers in the spring and summer next year and maximize your growing space.
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How to Plant Daffodil Bulbs
Fall is daffodil (Narcissus) bulb planting time. Learn where to plant, how to plant, and how and where to purchase good quality bulbs to plant in your garden or landscape
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Autumn Bulbs by Rod Leeds
Published by Chrysalis Books Group and written by Rod Leeds, Autumn Bulbs provides a glimpse into the often ignored treasures of the autumn garden.
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Collecting bulbs in Australia:
Collecting bulbs in Australia:
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Container Gardening Tips
Container grown bulbs can add zest to your garden. Learn the tips and tricks that make container gardening successful.
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Historic Daffodils
Historic daffodils are reminders of the past and present some interesting conversation pieces in the garden. What is a historic daffodil? Read this article for more information.
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Moving My Daffodil Garden
In the fall of 1999, I moved to a new home and had to move my entire daffodil <b>Show</b> garden. What an experience!! Warning! We are professionals, don't try this at home! LOL. Overwhelming job.
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Moving My Daffodil Garden - Continued
The is the continuation of my experience in the sudden moving of a daffodil garden without the time to properly prepare. A back breaking effort it is!
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Layer Bulbs for Maximum Color
With this one simple technique you will be able to increase the blooms in your garden by combining bulbs and plants. Learn how to layer bulbs in mixed borders.
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Contained Bulbs
Every garden is enhanced by adding pots of easy-to-grow bulbs and this is the time to plant them.
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Bulbs to Plant in the Spring
While many of the most familiar bulbs are planted in the fall there are several varities of bulbs, corms and tubers which can be planted in the spring.
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Planning For Spring 2007
Spring 2006 is the best time to begin planning for Spring 2007. My neighbor's yard is full of spring flowering bulbs and I have a few crocus. Do you have this problem?
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Summer Flowering Bulbs
Included in the wide array of summer flowering bulbs, you will find cut flowers, fragrant blooms and colorful foliage plants.
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Miniature Bulbs for Small Spaces
It is easy to maximize your gardening space by planting some of these beautiful miniature varieties of favorite bulbs. Great for small garden space or to add extra color!
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Amaryllis Bulb Growing Tips
Having trouble with your potted amaryllis? Follow these practical tips and suggestions for better amaryllis bulb growth and blooming year after year.
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Digging Daffodil Bulbs
The care and cleaning and preserving of daffodil bulbs is an important part of the gardening experience.
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Holiday Bulbs for the Coming Winter Doldrums
What's new in paperwhite Narcissus and large flowering amaryllis and how to grow them.
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My Garden, 1st Week in April
This article combines the National Daffodil Show in Portland, Oregon with the daffodils in my garden this week, the 1st week in April 2000. I personally didn't have much to show, as it's early for my daffodils. However, the National Daffodil Show in Portland had enough beautiful flowers to take your breath away.
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Online Bulb Sources for Canadian Gardeners
Tired of flipping through that pile of catalogs? Editor Susan reveals the best places to find, drool over, and order bulbs online for Canadian gardeners.
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The Decline of Historic Daffodils
Some daffodils just fade away. There are many reasons that registered varieties are now extinct. Some of them, for no reason at all.
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Anomatheca laxa:
Anomatheca laxa is a hardy little corm for zone 8 gardens and upwards. A delightful little mid winter into late spring and early summer flowering corm.
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Bulbs and Alcohol
We know drinking and driving don’t mix. How about bulbs and alcohol? This week’s article reports on some surprising research by Professor William Miller of Cornell.
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Energy Efficient Lighting
By changing your light bulbs you'll save money, reduce pollution, improve lighting and feel good about your environmental decisions.
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Spring Bulbs in the South
Spring bulbs in the South need cold. You need to give them special attention if you are to be successful with them in the warm winters of the southern USA.
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Bulbs for Containers
Bulbs are a great way to add accent and color to mixed containers to increase the drama and impact. See some favorite bulb plants for baskets, pots and planters.
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Fragrant Bulbs or Bulb-Like Plants
Fragrant plants add a touch of charm and surprise to a garden and none more so than the pleasant surprise of hidden bulbs suddenly bursting forth with scent and color.
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Say Hello To Easy Winter Bulbs!
It's time to plant paperwhites and amaryllis. These easy and fun bulbs will brighten your winter holidays and take you on into spring -- they make great gifts, too! Learn to force and care for your amaryllis and paperwhite bulbs.
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Wintering Over Frost Tender Bulbs
How to store the frost tender bulbs of cannas, dahlias and gladiolus plants over the cold winter months.
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"Wrap-Up of the 2000 Daffodil Season"
Extract taken from Clay's personal daffodil scrape book. Year V as the Novice, 2000. Daffyclay's personal daffodil show report for the season. This is my fifth year showing daffodils and as I meet and get to know people with 20 - 30 years showing experience, it makes me feel that I am still a novice. Nevertheless, the 2000 daffodil season was a strange one.
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Alpine Gardening Books
A review of two books that shoud be on every rock gardener's bookshelf.
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Australian Daffodils
Australian daffodils are amongst the leaders of the daffodil world. Their history and success in breeding daffodils is internationally recognized, but times are changing.
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Autumn Trees in the Garden
Here are some of the lovely Autumn trees you have available to plant in your garden.
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Award-Winning Daffodils
A list and description of Wister Award-winning daffodils.
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Christmas in the Daffodil Patch
Christmas in the daffodil patch. A fantistic sight to see!
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Collecting your own seed
Seed collecting is a great way of growing some of the expensive and hard to get bulbs. Why not try it for yourself. It's fun, easy, educational and rewarding.
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Continued, Wrap-Up of the 2000 Daffodil Season
Continued article from last week. Wrap-up of the "strange" 2000 Daffodil Season. It's the first year that I stopped right in the middle of the daffodil show season, and sat out for a week. I seriously considered giving up the daffodil growing and showing game and quit this whole mess. The frustration was too high.
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Cool Books for Cold Gardens
Every so often, books come out written with passion and insight, both the following fall into this catagory.
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Daffodil Bulb Planting Techniques
It's bulb planting time in my region, zone 6 almost zone 7. Techniques of bulb planting has a lot to do with the individual, but with the spread of the internet and the web sites, techniques are becoming standardized. Do you put gran-i-grit under your bulbs?
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Daffodil Digging Time
July, the hotest month in my state of Maryland, is also the month for digging daffodil bulbs. The daffodil foliage has died back or is dying back and going dormant as it is now six to eight weeks after the bloom period. As the daffodils go to their dormant period, it's the best and safest time to dig and thin daffodils.
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Daffodil New Year Resolutions!!!
The new year is the year of the daffodil. Have a Daffodil New Year. What are your Daffodil New Year's resolutions!
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Daffodil Pests and Diseases
Yes, daffodils are relatively pest-and disease-free . . . but the operative word is "relatively."
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Daffodils and Garden Beds
The making of a new early daffodil garden bed takes, time, effort,lots of organic material and some common sense. This article documents my efforts to hasten my daffodil bloom, and bring spring early to my gardens.
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Drying and Initial Cleaning of Bulbs
Drying and the initial care of freshly dug bulbs will make life simple.
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Early Daffodil Beds
After my experience in the year 2000, in which all my daffodils were late, I decided I'd build an early daffodil bed. Here's how it went.
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Fall Preparation for Planting
Planting daffodils in the fall provides for glorious displays of daffodils in the spring. Enjoy the work now, and enjoy the bloom next spring.
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Forcing Daffodils
Forcing daffodils can bring a beautiful spring experience. Best of all, it's not just for the commercial growers. You can do it too.
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Galanthus - The First Sign That Spring Will Come
The wind may howl (as it's doing as I write this), sleet may fall and ice and snow cover all, but Spring Will Come. The first sign that the season has turned in my USDA zone 7 garden is my patch of snowdrops (<i>Galanthus</i>).
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Growing Bulbs in Containers
Suggestions for growing bulbs in containers and forcing blooms for spring flowers at other times of year.
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Growing Daffodils in Pots
Growing daffodils in pots is both an art and a culture.
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