The tiny hairs covering their bodies, for instance, are ultra-sensitive to electric ... open flowers might be an easier landing pad for less agile beetles, while narrow tube-shaped bulbs are ...

Forcing means encouraging bulbs to flower earlier than they would naturally and it is done by growing them indoors for all or part of their growing season. The prepared bulbs, which are usually ...

The crisp, cool weather shouldn’t deter you from adding new plants to your garden or home landscape. As soon as the leaves begin to fall in autumn, I like to plant spring-flowering bulbs which ...

resist any temptation to cut back the foliage of bulb plants such as tulips and daffodils to tidy up the garden. “The plants need those leaves for at least several more weeks,” said Spencer ...

Bulbs can be combined with other flowers to give a longer season of color. They can be planted in annual flower beds as soon as frost kills them or freezes the flowers. Then as the bulb flowers ...

Tamp down the potting medium with your fingers—you want it to be pretty well compressed to hold your bulbs in place when they grow flowers. Water the potting medium until all the soil is moist ...

They bloom low to the ground, and once the flowers have died off the small stems (they’re in the iris family!), continue to grow and leave pretty greenery behind. Plant crocus bulbs 3 to 4 ...