How to Plant Tulips and Daffodils
Lowe's teaches you how to plant daffodils and tulips in the fall so you have a beautiful garden in the spring. The most popular spring ...
Seven varieties of dazzling daffodil
This spring I went to Holland to visit breeders to help me find exactly that, some beautiful, late-flowering narcissi to extend the season well into May.
The first discreet and delicate beauty I was introduced to was 'Dallas’. A Dutch gardening friend has pots of it in her front yard. This is yet to be widely available, but is on its way. In the small-cupped group, it flowers late, from the end of April through May. 'Dallas’ is natural-looking, fantastically scented, with pure-white petals and a small, acid-green cup that looks you right in the face. The fine stems and foliage wave gently in the wind, modest and serene. It would suit any garden or vase.
'Felindre’ is also exquisitely beautiful. Part of the poeticus brigade, but exceptional even among these greats, as its flowers are so pert and perky, with a delicious green eye. Its petals are flatter and more rounded than
those of 'Actaea’ and the classic pheasant’s eye, which make it ideal as a cut flower. In April I made an arrangement from one head of Allium 'Purple Rain’, threaded through with 15 stems of 'Felindre’. It was much neater and tidier than my usual flower arrangements, but stood out in its narrow-necked bottle, almost begging to be a bridesmaid’s bouquet. It lasted two weeks, three times as long as most cut daffodils.
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Gardeners view yard as work in progress Along their house, they have a spirea bush, hostas, a climbing rose about to bloom, a large clump of bleeding hearts, tulips and daffodils. In the backyard, the homeowners made a walkway with flagstones spaced apart and small stones in between. |
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Garden Talk: Towering allium turn garden into a fantasyland Like tulips and daffodils, allium bulbs should be planted in fall, about 6 to 8 inches deep for the largest varieties, 2 to 3 inches for the smaller bulbs. The biggest and best alliums for the garden include my favorite, Star of Persia, which boasts and more » |
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Maintain garden with steps Do not remove the browning foliage from tulips or daffodils. This foliage produces food that helps ensure next spring's showy display. » Act quickly to get your spring planted bulbs in the garden. These include caladiums, calla, cannas, |
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FRANKLIN COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS: Spring bulbs need their green foliage Tulips, daffodils and other spring bulbs are done blooming but you should let the foliage continue to grow until it turns yellow. Spring bulbs need their foliage to produce food for the bulbs for next year. If you want to relocate them elsewhere or if |
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Keep the Blooms Coming by Removing Spent Flowers The tulips and daffodils are long gone, and the irises have finished blooming. Now what? What should you do with the droopy-looking foliage and withered flowers? They don't look very pretty, but you're not sure whether to cut the leaves back or pull |
