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Flower bulbs can be quite expensive. Knowing where and when to purchase flower bulbs can save your money that can't be spent on other gardening projects.

Small bulbs can yield a stunning display - even before the snow melts. Plant spring-flowering bulbs now to add color to your garden next year.

Greet spring with color that contrasts beautifully with the dormant grass and leafless trees. Fall is the time to plant bulbs that bloom in early spring.

Want to beat the dreary winter dull-drums? Try growing these flowering bulb plants indoors to brighten your winter days!

Blue flowers and spring naturally go together, so begin your spring bulb display with as many blue flowers as possible.

If you are looking for an easy-care plant that will bring color and scent into your garden, try an old fashioned favorite, the daylily.

By forcing bulbs indoors gardeners can enjoy the scents and colors of early spring when the ground outside is still covered in snow.

Naturalized is a term used to describe a non-native plant that thrives and multiplies under proper conditions, requiring very little attention.

Careful selection and preparation will enhance a yard or garden with spring flowering bulbs like tulips, crocus, iris and daffodils.

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.

While the rest of your yard is still asleep for the winter, bulbs underground are eager to pop up before the slowpoke springtime perennials and annuals begin to show off!

After the first hard frost is the ideal time to plant spring bulbs. A selection of well-placed bulbs in the fall will produce glorious bursts of spring color.

In some areas, it might be a little early to plant spring-blooming bulbs, but it's not too late to prepare for them.

Spring bulbs sometimes grow too soon in spring or come up in the fall. Why they emerge now, what to do (and what not to do) when spring flower bulbs sprout extra early.

Lately my spring garden planning has been interrupted with an endless barrage of requests from daughter to buy her a horse. All I want to do is buy bulbs.

The idea of summer bulbs is often underestimated. Planted around shrubs and perennials they make a valuable contribution to any garden.

Included in the wide array of summer flowering bulbs, you will find cut flowers, fragrant blooms and colorful foliage plants.

Spring bulbs are beautiful to behold, but difficult to plant in the fall. The bulb auger fits onto most electric hand drills, and will make short work of digging jobs.

Solve the little problems that arise when planting a spring bulb garden. Just a few simple tricks of the trade will keep the garden lush and full of life.

Independent garden centers, discount big-box stores and internet / mail order catalog vendors market spring-blooming bulbs. Which source is best for landscape gardens?

Winter doesn't have to be a time of scarcity in the garden. There are plenty of winter flowering, hardy plants that will survive the cold and frost of temperate climates.

All daffodils are deer and garden-pest resistant. Daffodils planted with minor pest-resident bulbs create stunning and hardy spring displays in garden landscapes.

Midsummer is a good time to plan pest-free spring-blooming bulb gardens. Design combinations for all garden styles - containers, small patio gardens, or large spaces.

Planted together Narcissus (daffodil) bulbs and specialty (minor) bulbs lead to pest-resistant, perennial and naturalized landscape garden designs.

Fall bulb planting during autumn gardening is sure to be rewarded with masses of spring flowers. Narcissus, commonly called daffodil, has many bulb ideas to choose.

Daffodils and tulips are not the only spring flowering bulbs. Some specialty bulbs, like camassias and fritillarias are equally easy to plant in garden borders.

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.

Crocus plants are unique in that bulb gardeners can enjoy fall bulb planting or spring bulb planting and yield crocus flowers twice a year!

Gardeners who want the earliest blooms during the cold of winter will want to consider these bulbs that will often bloom as early as January or February.

Grouping of plants makes a sustainable perennial garden easier to grow. One plant community includes Baptisia, Geranium, Calamintha and Sporobolus.

Caladium bulbs should be dug in the fall before the first frost. Plant bulbs in the ground in late spring or start earlier indoors.

After your amaryllis bulb has finished blooming, it is important to give it the proper amount of sunshine, food, and water to insure the bulb will flower again.

Of all the spring flowers, the dainty white and green snowdrops are among the first to bloom, sometimes pushing up through the late winter snow.

Welcome to Flower Gardens! We’ll help you design and grow your dream flower garden. Practical Advice and Inspiration for the beginning and advanced flower gardener. How t

A border of plants around a vegetable patch can be useful and decorative. Here are ideas for edging plants to surround the kitchen garden.

Several spring flowering bulbs will provide gardeners with long-lasting color from a few minutes of fall bulb planting in the autumn.

These bulbs, corms and runner grown plants represent new varieties recently bred, and heirloom plants rediscovered and reintroduced for all gardeners to enjoy.

If you are looking forward to discarding your heavy winter clothing for something lighter, you're also probably looking for easy ways to lighten and freshen up your home.

Organic lawn and garden maintenance doesn't end with summer. You can prepare your plants, flowers, and lawn for winter dormancy with this autumn garden checklist.

Welcome, flower gardeners! (Part 2) Introducing Barbara Martin’s new Flower Gardens: future flower gardening articles, advice, how-to tips, techniques, new flower varieti

Chrysanthemum flowers are hardy fall blooming perennial plants colorful in autumn arrangements. Hardy garden mums raised in summer gardens are used in fall plantings.

Easy to grow grape hyacinth bulbs become low maintenance plants in the flower garden. Late summer is the time to plan Muscari for fall bulb planting.

Early spring-flowering snowdrops planted in Scottish gardens and woodlands gardens may help beat wintertime blues of visitors to the Scottish Snowdrop Festival 2009.

All kinds of blue flowers for the garden: plant all blue flowering plants and accessories in blue for an overall blue theme or plant a few blue accents. We all love blue!

Bulbs provide a delightful and surprising splash of color in the garden without which no landscape design would be complete. Here are some yellow flowering bulbs.

Reading books and articles by garden writers can often be the best way to learn how to make a great garden. Here are some sage thoughts on planting spring bulbs.

The warm soil and cool nights of the fall season are an ideal combination for planting many types of perennials, trees, and bulbs for garden display the following spring.

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!

Cool-season annuals provide early color in a spring garden. They also provide the gardener with an opportunity to start planting before the weather warms.

Flower gardeners are always looking for more blue flowers. Grow these blue flowered annuals in your garden either in a blue themed planting or mixed with other colors.