What Will Be the First Flower of Spring?
Every spring, as soon as the snow melts, the bulbs we planted the previous autumn race to be the firstContinue Reading
Category: Bulbs
Order Your Fall Bulbs in Summer
We’ve barely begun to harvest the fruits of our vegetable garden, and I’m already talking to you about spring-flowering bulbs.Continue Reading
After Spring Bulbs Have Bloomed
Larry Hodgson has published thousands of articles and 65 books over the course of his career, in French and English.Continue Reading
Photograph Your Spring… to Make It Even More Beautiful!
If you’re like me, the first spring flowers do you the greatest good! How we savor them! Finally, back toContinue Reading
Spring Promises to Be Early
I have good news for everyone! I can already tell you that spring will be early… at least in theContinue Reading
2023: Year of the Amaryllis
The Amaryllis you decorate your home with during the winter holidays is a Hippeastrum. A member of the genus Amaryllidaceae, Hippeastrum bulbsContinue Reading
Plant Tulips, Even if it Snows!
A few years ago, a tabloid journalist made headlines with the story of a landscaper who had rolled out turfContinue Reading
Extend an Early Welcome to Pollinators
How does the song go: “When It’s Springtime in Alaska, it’s forty below”? That can be true up north, butContinue Reading
Ode to Minor Bulbs… NOT Planted in the Lawn
All gardeners have a favorite season. For me, no hesitation: it’s spring! The awakening of nature, soft greens, rhododendrons andContinue Reading
Drops of Sun That Melt the Snow
You probably know the tulip (Tulipa spp.), narcissus or daffodil (Narcissus spp.) and hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis), those spring-flowering “big bulbs,”Continue Reading