CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the holiday decorations come down and winter seems to drag on in Northeast Ohio, forced flower bulbs ...
Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter conditions tricks bulbs into blooming early by chilling them before ...
Last week I wrote that I’d go over the process of bulb forcing. So, here goes! The definition of “forcing” a bulb is to get it to grow and bloom at a time when it usually wouldn’t. You’ve all seen ...
SHREVEPORT, La. -- For gardeners in the ArkLaTex, winter may as well be here. With a few nights below freezing happening already, you may have some die-off come spring if you didn't take measures to ...
As winter settles in with days getting colder, Michigan skies get cloudier, we gardeners start to get antsy for the beginning of the growing season and longing for spring flowers to bloom. We can give ...
Before Page Dickey and Francis Bosco Schell spent a single night in their house in northwestern Connecticut, clay pots of flower bulbs slumbered there, setting down roots in a space of their own. The ...
In the 1600s, when hyacinth bulbs were brought from Turkey to Europe, there was speculation that it was a new food. People thought the bulbs resembled a turnip, so they cut them in pieces and boiled ...
November is the gloomiest month of all. It’s cold and raw, but usually without enough snow to cross country ski on. It rains nearly every day, or seems like it does. The garden is put to bed, or if ...
Forcing bulbs brings the beauty of spring flowers inside your home during the cold winter months. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up ...
If you want to enjoy the vibrant colors and fragrances of flowers indoors while it's bleak and chilly outside, consider forcing bulbs. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and other ...