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 ...

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 isn’t just a quiet season for the garden—it’s a high-stakes survival challenge for your precious bulbs and tubers. One ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

It can be easy to lift bulbs, put them in storage, and forget about them until it's time to plant again. But, failing to check on stored bulbs may leave you disappointed. The slightest of ...

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 ...

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