Forcing bulbs brings the beauty of spring flowers inside your home during the cold winter months. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the holiday decorations come down and winter seems to drag on in Northeast Ohio, forced flower bulbs ...
SHREVEPORT, La. -- For gardeners in the ArkLaTex, winter may as well be here. With a few nights below freezing happening already, you may have some die-off come spring if you didn't take measures to ...
Last week I wrote that I’d go over the process of bulb forcing. So, here goes! The definition of “forcing” a bulb is to get it to grow and bloom at a time when it usually wouldn’t. You’ve all seen ...
Previous generations of gardeners knew that coaxing bulbs to bloom early was the easiest way to have fresh flowers in winter. Here’s how they did it. By Margaret Roach Before Page Dickey and Francis ...
November is the gloomiest month of all. It’s cold and raw, but usually without enough snow to cross country ski on. It rains nearly every day, or seems like it does. The garden is put to bed, or if ...
Q: Recently I started reading an article at a checkout stand about forcing bulbs. I was fascinated, but then it was my turn, so I put the magazine back and went on my way. I haven’t been able to get ...
As winter settles in with days getting colder, Michigan skies get cloudier, we gardeners start to get antsy for the beginning of the growing season and longing for spring flowers to bloom. We can give ...
Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter conditions tricks bulbs into blooming early by chilling them before ...
If you want to enjoy the vibrant colors and fragrances of flowers indoors while it's bleak and chilly outside, consider forcing bulbs. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and other ...