Bulbs
Bulbs are cheap, easy, and happy harbingers of spring, so what's not to love? And there's SO much more to them than the few common types we see everywhere, so I urge you to explore the options.
Articles on this Site
Reblooms from Tulips - Get your Tips Here! lists the best types for reblooms the next year, and how to treat 'em right for best performance.
Stories from the Garden
- Eight Reasons I Must Have Bulbs will win you over - or nothing will.
- Spring Bulbs: Hybrid, Species or Native asks questions I wouldn't have thought to ask.
- Bulbiferous Thoughts opened my eyes to bulbs I'd never thought about before.
- My own attempts to design with tulips are chronicled in installments one, two, three and four.
- And how about summer-blooming Oriental and Asiatic bulbs? A lily-lovers weighs here. And here's a great source of super-cheap lilies.
- Planting bulbs can be so much easier than I thought. I learned how from other bloggers, and the full report is here.
Good Info in Print
- Naturalizing Bulbs
by Proctor.
- Daffodils for North American Gardens
- Tulips for American Gardens by Brent Heath of Brent and Becky's Bulbs fame.
- Taylor's Guide to Bulbs