As daylight hours shorten and temperatures begin to fall, the bright blooms in the garden that we enjoyed during the warmer months of summer begin to disappear. Even as autumn signals an end to the ...

While it’s nearing the end of the line this time of year for most of the landscape, there’s one group of plants when it’s prime time to start them – spring-flowering bulbs. Led by tulips, daffodils, ...

HUSON, Mont. — With sputterings of snow and rain, splashed with warm days and cooldowns, it's a typical Montana spring. It's time to put winter away and welcome flowers. Tracy and her partner Bethany ...

The best time to plant spring bulbs depends on your growing zone. In general, you should plant bulbs six weeks before your projected first frost date. For many growing zones, October is the best time ...

A container of forced grape hyacinth, daffodil and tulip bulbs. Courtesy MelindaMyers.com. Pot them up, give them a chill ...

Most of our autumn gardening time is spent cleaning up and putting plants to bed for the winter, but it can also be a time to be proactive about improving our gardens for next spring. The greatest ...

Pennsylvania’s climate is perfect for growing spring-blooming bulbs. We have plenty of winter cold for favorites such as tulips and daffodils to get their needed “chill” time, then we usually have a ...

Now is time to purchase those bulbs that will produce spring flowers. Mid- to late November is the best time for buying daffodil, snowdrop, tulip, narcissus, hyacinth and crocus bulbs so they will ...

Think for a moment about spring flowers, and likely two of the most common to come to mind are daffodils (Narcissus) and tulips (Tulipa). Even nongardeners are likely to know these flowers, and ...

April 20 update: The tulips at Hershey Gardens and Longwood Gardens are in peak bloom. Late last fall, if you stepped away from the thousands of poinsettias at Longwood Gardens and looked away from ...

Since I have been involved in the gardening business for the majority of my life – which has been a very long time – I find myself reminiscing more and more each year. When I was growing up in the ...

You know spring has (finally!) arrived when you see tulips in bloom in your garden. These gorgeous flowers grow from bulbs that are planted in the fall before the ground freezes. Tulips are available ...