How to Use Alliums in a Naturalistic Garden Design
There’s nothing subtle about alliums. Their round flower heads and slender, leafless stems make them look like exclamation points in the landscape. Though alliums have big personalities, these spring-blooming bulbs are incredibly versatile. The following garden design was created by Columbus-based garden designer NickRead More
Where to Plant Fall Bulbs: There’s Always Room for More
Summer is fading fast and soon it will be time for sweaters, warm tea and… planting fall bulbs. It’s your once-a-year opportunity to pull out all the stops and go wild with color. (That’s tulip Princess Irene and muscari armeniacum above.)Read More
Best Daffodils for Naturalizing
Nothing shouts, “spring” like daffodils. Their sunny flowers, blooming in carefree abundance, are the perfect tonic after a long winter. Daffodils make it easy to create an ever more impressive show of color. As soon as the bulbs have finished blooming, theyRead More
Long-Lasting Tulips and Daffodils? Start Here
Spring-flowering bulbs have got to be tough. On an early spring day, it can be freezing in the morning and 80 degrees by afternoon. Climate change is intensifying these temperatures swings, especially on the warm end of the spectrum. So to help gardeners cope, we are usingRead More
Aftercare Tips for Spring Bulbs
When the spring bulb season comes to an end, gardeners often wonder what to do about the spent flowers and fading foliage. The answer depends on whether you are treating the bulbs as annuals or perennials. Spring bulbs as annuals Though mostRead More
What Were Your Favorite Spring Bulbs?
We try our best to show you what our flower bulbs will really look like when they bloom in your garden. One of the ways we do this is by maintaining a trial garden where we grow and photograph most of the varieties thatRead More
Early-Blooming Flower Bulbs Announce Spring’s Return
Though the calendar says we still have a couple more weeks of winter, in many parts of the country, spring flower bulbs are already up and starting to bloom. Winter-weary gardeners are giving a collective sigh of relief and patting themselves on the back for making time to plant flowerRead More
Planting Tips for Naturalizing Daffodils
After months of harsh winter weather, I am desperate for flowers. And to my eyes, there’s nothing more satisfying than a meadow of daffodils: drifts of delicate blossoms, fluttering and dancing in the breeze, blooming in carefree abundance. Daffodils areRead More
Hurry Spring with Early-Blooming Bulbs
I don’t care what the calendar says. At my house it’s not spring until I can see a flower in bloom. That’s why I count on snowdrops, crocuses and chionodoxa to fill my year with more spring and less winter. Snowdrops are the first spring bulbsRead More
Perfect Pairs: 3 Ways to Combine Muscari with Tulips or Daffodils
We plant more than 10,000 flower bulbs in our trial gardens each fall. That’s a lot of bulbs and it takes more than a week to plant them all, but there’s no better way to evaluate performance, check heights andRead More
