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Arranging Your Bulb-Filled Containers
Learning how to arrange bulb filled containers is easy – but once you start planting, you might not be able to stop. Here are a few decorative container tips for bulbs, including how to arrange your planters into an attractive deck or patio grouping.
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Bulb Gardening: Choosing a Site, Establishing a Purpose
The great thing about bulbs is that they have a place in every garden, no matter what the size of your planting space. Learn some bulb planning advice for choosing a site for bulb gardens, as well as determining your objectives and purpose.
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Bulb Impersonators
They may not be considered “true bulbs,” but bulbous plants offer the garden the same glorious blooms. Learn the basic facts about these different kinds of plants.
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Bulbous Plants: All Class
There are five broad horticultural categories of bulbous plants. Do you know what they are? Learn the flower bulb basics – from true bulb classification to rhizomes, corms and tubers.
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Bulb Planning Considerations: Scale, Form and Design
The way you arrange bulbs within your plantings creates order and symmetry in your garden. Learn what to consider when determining scope, scale and planning for a bulb garden.
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Flashes of Color With Indoor Bulbs
Using bulbs indoors is an easy and affordable way to enhance your home’s décor during the dreary winter months. Learn some tips on how to decorate with flower bulbs, as well as what types of bulbs work well as indoor accents – no matter what the season outside.
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How Bulbs Shine
Spring-blooming bulbs – planted in fall – make a garden shine. Learn how these amazing plants grow, reproduce and divide, and then light up your spring by turning on some bulbs!
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Indoor Bulbs: Chilling Information on Forcing the Issue
Who wouldn’t love a blooming spring hyacinth decorating the home on a dreary winter day? With proper preparation, forcing indoor bulbs into bloom is an easy way to get out-of-season color. Learn how to chill bulbs prior to planting – and then decorate your winter…by force!
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Picking the Perfect Bulbs
A blooming garden is only as good as the plants you use, and selecting the healthiest bulbs is the first step to an amazing flower show. Follow these tips on handpicking the best of the bunch so you can grow the most amazing bulb display on your block!
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SoCal: Falling for Bulbs
Planting bulbs in fall is a high priority for many home gardeners nationwide – and those in Southern California are no exception. Not sure which ones to get? Here are a few suggestions of what to plant when it comes to great Southern California bulbs.
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Summer and Autumn Bulbs: The Bloomin’ Basics
Bulb planting isn’t just for spring flowers – when those spring bulbs fade, summer and fall bulbs take over the show. Bulbs that bloom in summer and fall-blooming bulbs should be planted in spring. Learn the basics of these flowering wonders, including how deep to plant the most popular bloomers.
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The Basics of Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Spring bulbs paint color on gardens still filled with dwindling snow and winter-bare branches. But to get those amazing hues, you need to plant spring bulbs in fall. Learn the basics of spring-blooming bulbs, including how deep to plant the most popular bloomers.
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True Bulbs
There’s more to bulbs than just sticking them in the ground and waiting for them to magically pop up in spring. Understanding the basics behind “true bulbs” can help you plan the best way to use these amazing plants in your garden.
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