Category Archives for Bulbs and Corms
Bulb Types
Crocus There are spring, autumn and winter-flowering kinds; the first group is by far the most popular and generally useful. All crocuses form corms which need to be planted 3-6cm (1-½ – 2-½in) deep, the winter- and spring-flowering kinds in … Continue reading
Iris Flowers and Varieties
Iris Varieties Most people immediately think of irises as the large flamboyant flowers, in all manner of wonderful colours, which grace the garden in May and June. These are the flag, German or bearded irises which have been so intensively … Continue reading
Successional Planting for Constant Garden Colour
BLOOM AND BLOOM AGAIN If you only have a small space to cultivate, you can make the ground work extra hard. It can be made to produce more than one crop of flowers each year either by successional planting, which … Continue reading
Summer Blooming Bulbs – Calendar
Summer Blooming Bulbs Calendar Bulbs planted in the autumn and spring can provide many of the gayest flowers of summer. They include the stately tulips, favourites for four centuries and still being further developed and improved; the daffodils so … Continue reading
Blooming Bulbs – Essential Guide to Propagating Bulbs
Blooming Bulbs – Essential Guide to Propagating Bulbs The propagation of bulbous plants or blooming bulbs is not at all difficult. The problem comes in knowing which blooming bulbs should be increased in which way. Unlike most flowering plants which … Continue reading
Summer Blooming Bulbs – Lily Bulbs
Summer Blooming Bulbs – Lilium/Lily Bulbs Lily bulbs are some of the most beautiful of all of the summer blooming bulbs. The lilies are unsurpassed for grace, beauty and majesty. Those that can be grown in the open garden have … Continue reading
Spring Flowering Bulbs – Tulip Bulbs
Spring Flowering Bulbs – Tulipa/ Tulip Bulbs The spring flowering bulbs, tulip bulbs, are a genus of over one hundred hardy bulbous plants that have been popular in Europe for at least 350 years. At one time ‘tulipamania’ hit Holland … Continue reading
Spring Blooming Bulbs – Types of Narcissus (Daffodil Bulbs)
Narcissus/Daffodil Bulbs The daffodil bulb is by far the most popular of all spring blooming bulbs, and certainly there are no other spring bulbs that can provide the same quantity or quality of flowers, and no others that come in … Continue reading
Growing Dahlias – Guide to Dahlia Flowers
Growing Dahlias – Guide to Dahlia Flowers Dahlia flowers are the biggest, brightest and most flamboyant of all late-summer flowering plants. No other group of plants can rival them for sheer vibrancy of colour. Dahlia flowers are natives of the … Continue reading
Planting Bulbs – Essential Gardening Guide to Blooming Bulbs
Planting Bulbs In general there are three different ways of planting bulbs in the garden: they may be used either in formal bedding schemes, in beds and borders among other plants, or else allowed to naturalise themselves in lawns, wood-land … Continue reading