While you may associate flowering bulbs with spring, the work for getting these beauties to bloom actually begins during fall and winter. Many bulbs can still be planted in the garden in the winter, ...

Winter can feel like it drags on forever, but your home doesn’t have to be a dreary, gray waiting room until spring. Imagine ...

Instead of leaving your garden barren in winter, choose from these winter flowers that thrive in cold temperatures, from winter jasmine to snowdrops.

However, we do not need to dig and store canna rhizomes over the winter down here, so this is needless work. Up North, ...

Most of the time, winter means dormancy. As cooler temperatures start to roll in, many gardeners are focusing on protecting outdoor plants from frost, bringing potted plants that can't handle freezes ...

A lily bulb produces new green growth as the weather warms in the spring and depending on the variety and hardiness zone, blooms emerge in late spring or summer. Once the plant has bloomed, the ...

If the wait for bulbs to bloom in spring seems excruciatingly long, you can pot some up now and enjoy a floriferous winter indoors. Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to ...

Happy New Year, dear readers: We not only mark the beginning of a fresh calendar year, but also celebrate the recent winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of our season. It may seem ...

This week’s work in our garden includes digging up and preparing gladiolus bulbs for winter storage. Gladiolus, or glads for short, cannot survive in the ground though the winter in our area. Even ...

If forcing bulbs becomes a winter obsession, additional options include miniature daffodils such as ‘Tête-à-Tête’ (Narcissus ‘Tete-a-Tete’), crocus (Crocus spp.), and grape hyacinths (Muscari ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you want a bulb you can plant in the fall for beautiful red blooms for the holidays, amaryllis are perfect. While many species and ...

If you’ve ever planted winter bulbs and come back to find holes in your garden, you know how frustrating squirrels can be. After waiting all season to see those blooms, it’s tough watching your hard ...