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Category Archives: Fall
Planning a Mix of Perennials and Bulbs
Roots, Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes or Tubers: just think of flower bulbs, just as other plants that you choose to add to your garden. What is the purpose or purposes of your garden? A certain color, to attract certain birds, sun … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Gardening 101, Spring, summer
Tagged bloom season, bulbs, elephant ears, fit, flower crazy, flowers, garden plan, hardy, height, how many, lilies, mixing, perennials, plants, spacing, Spring, sq ft, sun exposure, tips, urban gardening, varieties
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Sweet Scents in your Garden
Walking through the garden can be beautiful, peaceful and relaxing. There are many aspects to look at when planning your garden: color, architecture, bloom time, hardiness, etc. Planning for when and where you put fragrant plants would be another. The … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Fall, Flowers, Gardening 101, Spring, summer
Tagged bee balm, begonia, chamomile, daffodils, festalis ismene, foxtail lily, freesia, geraniums, hyacinths, iris, lavendar, lilac, lily of the valley, oriental lily, peony, petunia, phlox, russian sage, sweet pea, tuberose
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Simple & Fun Family Project
Most people enjoy flowers. Some more than others, of course. This is a project that any age group can do, and you get flowers to enjoy, too! Forcing fall planting bulbs can be a great way to get some indoor … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Fall, Flowers, Forcing Bulbs, winter
Tagged classroom, experiment, forcing, project
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Warm Climates and Fall Planting Bulbs
I get many calls and emails from people in the South: California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, New Mexico, Oklahoma,Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Mississippi wondering if they could get any Fall planting bulbs to grow in … Continue reading
Posted in Deer resistant, Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Forcing Bulbs, Gardening 101
Tagged amaryllis, anemone, cold period, daffodils, dutch iris, jonquil, magic lily, narcissus, paperwhites, ranunculus, spider lily, spring blooming, tazetta, the south, warm climates
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Finding New Fall Planting Flowers
Don’t you love finding a new flower to add to your garden? Or at least seeing a new flower you haven’t seen before!?! I love that there are so many variations in height, color, fullness, details in the blooms…the list … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers
Tagged Allium Shubertii, Butterfly Daffodil, fall bulbs, Hollyhock Hyacinth, Louisiana Iris, New, Zizanie Double Tulip
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Spring Blooming Groundcover Bulbs
Anemones, Crocus, Muscari, Scilla, Chionodoxa and Galanthus! These all produce great mini flowers that make them perfectly suited for planting under or in front of tulips, daffodils, shrubs or along a woodland border. They all grow just 3″ to 12″ … Continue reading
Posted in Deer resistant, Fall, Flowers, Forcing Bulbs, Spring
Tagged anemone, bulbs, crocus, deer resistant, flower bulbs, flowers, garden, ground cover, ideas, low grow, muscari, perennials, scilla, squill, tips, tulipworld
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Dividing: Perennials and Flower Bulbs
Fall is a great time to work in the yard because of the cooler temperature you will not have to worry about overheating! It is also a great time for dividing many of your spring blooming bulbs and summer flowering … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Gardening 101
Tagged Dividing, seperate, split
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The Bulb Lasagna Creation was a success!
So last fall, I wrote about different Creative ways to plant bulbs and then I experimented with the “Lasagna planting“. Now that spring is ending here in SE Wisconsin, I will post my photos and comments on the ‘Lasagna’ progression. … Continue reading
Stunted and disappearing tulips
This weather we’ve been experiencing all over the US this winter and now into spring has been messing with our minds and our gardens! Here are our tulips – How do your look this year? Unfortunately the deer got the … Continue reading
Posted in Fall, Flower Bulbs, Gardening 101
Tagged cold winter, dead head, drainage, dry summer, garden, gardening, good soil, tulips
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Forcing Flower Bulbs Experiment Part B
The 2 pots of Hyacinths (Jan Bos) in my warm office are open and smell heavenly! That is 3.5 weeks after I planted them and brought them in the warm office (after about 10 weeks of chilling). Some of my … Continue reading
Posted in Container Gardening, Fall, Flower Bulbs, Flowers, Forcing Bulbs, winter
Tagged chilling, daffodils, flower bulbs, forcing, garden, gardening, hyacinth
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