It's recommended to plant tulips in cooler seasons, so as the fall approaches, we can start putting our bulbs into the ground. Tulips typically require a "cold period" of 12 to 14 weeks, so depending ...

Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to force plants to direct energy toward more blooms, more fruit ...

Seeing spring flowering bulbs nudge through the snow means that winter’s hold is on its way out. It also signals that the new outdoor gardening season has arrived. But that’s next year — several ...

Most bulbs should be planted mid-September through the first part of October to grow roots before the ground freezes. Tulips ...

Invariably, around this time, I'm asked why tulips in the ground for two years look shabby when they were so charming and colorful the spring before, why they weren't naturalizing and blossoming like ...

We’re now in the prime of bulb-planting season, that rite of fall that seems out of place when we’re about ready to yank or cut back plants in the rest of the yard. That contrarian picture is just one ...