Long-Lasting Tulips and Daffodils? Start Here

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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