Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. You may be more familiar with the Hippeastrum genus ...

The good news is that you can still plant bulbs as long as the soil is not frozen. So far this year we have experienced a few warm spells (intermixed with cold spells!) which have left the soil ...

A troop of red tulips standing tall beside a regiment of yellow daffodils. A march of blue grape hyacinths. A platoon of hyacinths in a pot. That’s how gardeners traditionally plant spring bulbs: in ...

Just in time for bulb-planting season, “Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden” (Timber Press, 2024) is at hand. It is written by Jacqueline van der Kloet who has designed bulb gardens all over the world ...

Spring-blooming bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths are garden oddities because they have to go in the ground dormant the fall before in order for them to bloom the following spring. That’s ...

In 1985, Rich Santoro became fascinated watching his sister-in-law (and neighbor) planting bulbs in her garden. Santoro, who works with concrete in his professional life, didn’t do much gardening and ...

Each fall, gardeners plant bulbs like daffodil, crocus, snowflake and ranunculus in the ground and await the beauty that will emerge in the spring. Some of these varieties will naturalize in the ...

It is officially spring, and we are fortunate to have many species of bulbs that are flowering in Central Jersey right now. Spring bulbs provide some of the first colorful blooms of the season and are ...

Flowers that grow from bulbs are some of the earliest blooms to grace a garden in the spring. It can be fun to plan a colorful design of tulip flowers, similar to the flower fields that are a popular ...

As a professional gardener, there are certain bulbs I return to every year without fail. Take ‘Apricot Beauty’ tulips, for example. These pastel peach blooms have followed me from garden to garden ...