Time to plant spring-blooming bulbs, y’all!  For tips about choosing and planting bulbs, check out these articles on our blog and website.  They won’t steer you wrong.

- When and How to Plant Spring-Blooming Bulbs by Larry Hurley gives the how-to details we count on Larry for.

- Jim Dronenberg’s Introduction to Spring-Blooming Bulbs covers the most popular types of bulbs, plus how to combine them and which ones you can grow in the shade.

- The Other Spring-Blooming Bulbs by Randy Best shows and explains those too-often-overlooked smaller bulbs: snowdrops, winter aconite, wood hyacinth, iris reticulata, chionodoxa, grape hyacinth, crocuses, anemone, and the fritillary family.  How many of these have YOU tried?

- How to get Years of Blooms from your Tulips by blogger and low-maintenance gardener Susan Harris.

- If you have deer or squirrels (and who doesn’t?) we have help.  Check out Critter-Resistant Bulbs.

And it’s also not too soon to pot up some bulbs for forcing, so you’ll have blooms indoors in the winter.  Read the article by Kathy Jentz  – Bulb-Forcing 101: How to Get Spring Blooms in the Dead of Winter – about how to do it, or watch the video below by Randy Best.




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