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Garden, Garden design

Learning new trick with a bulb plan

October 20, 2020

Thank you to Longfield Gardens for partnering with me on this post. I’m starting to think that old gardeners can learn new tricks. I’m not sure what else would explain that for the first time,… [Continue Reading]

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Garden

Short-flowering bulbs got you down?

April 11, 2020

As you probably know, I live in the land of the delayed spring. So when I started getting questions from a couple people asking about why their tulips and other bulbs were short I didn’t… [Continue Reading]

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Why not try growing tulips in a raised garden bed?
Garden, Plants

How to grow tulips even if you garden with deer and rabbits

September 24, 2018

The first fall after we moved into our house 16 years ago, my mother-in-law bought me a collection of tulips. It was a sweet gesture and one that was particularly lovely the following spring when… [Continue Reading]

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daffodils in field
Garden, Plants

Why you should order bulbs now

September 14, 2018

The start of the gardening year is signaled, in my garden at least, by the blooming of the first bulb. Last year it was a race between one insanely long-lived and abused daffodil and the… [Continue Reading]

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Garden

PLANTING A LAYERED BULB CONTAINER FOR SPRING

October 30, 2014

Although the forecast for Halloween is for a full-on gale we continue to enjoy a pretty great autumn here so I still haven’t done much in the way of garden cleanup. One fall gardening chore… [Continue Reading]

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Friday Finds

FEATURE FRIDAY: SPRING HAS SPRUNG

March 21, 2014

The declaration in the headline might be more optimistic than realistic, but I thought it would be appropriate to mark the first full day of spring with some shots of spring bulbs in full bloom,… [Continue Reading]

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