When it comes to flower gardening, ranunculus and anemones truly stand out. These charming cool-season flowers are known for their showy, delicate, papery blooms and exceptional vase life. Although ...

A simple step-by-step guide for beautiful blooms.

Q. I’ve begun my winter cleanup, and I dug up some gladiolus corms that I planted a couple of years ago so I could spread them around. I was surprised to discover that the corms, including lots of ...

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 ...

Typically, most bulbs you plant in your home garden (including favorites like tulips, daffodils, and crocus flowers) need to be placed in the soil before the first frost in order to guarantee blooms ...

Plant the right bulb (or its close cousin, the corm) and success is almost guaranteed. The beginnings of spring’s flowers and leaves are folded up inside these compact packages. Plant them at the ...

November is the perfect time to plant bulbs for spring flowers. This year, though, instead of planning to tiptoe through the tulips in April, why not go native and traipse through the Triteleia, ...

Self-denial isn’t in my nature, especially when it comes to plants. Earlier this week, when I made a quick trip to a DIY store for a paint roller, all appreciation of prudence and economy vanished at ...

Although we haven’t had a killing frost so far, you should be preparing to winter-store those beautiful tender perennials — the cannas, the dahlias, the gladioli and others. Look for a cool storage ...

The results from a workshop held for members of the Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club this spring planting caladium corms were fairly significant. Some members had even taken their potted plants to ...

Corms function much like bulbs—but a little extra prep makes all the difference. When it comes to flower gardening, ranunculus and anemones truly stand out. These charming cool-season flowers are ...