Of all gardening activities, planting bulbs is my favourite. It is satisfying on so many levels. . For one thing, bulbs are pretty much surefire things. As long as you don’t push them into soggy or ...

Some spring-blooming bulbs inspire songwriters (“Tiptoe Through the Tulips″). Others even move poets (“I wandered lonely as a cloud … / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils”).

True blue flowers are few and far between for most of the year, but luckily March and April provide a wealth of miniature blue bulbs. Most of these measure less than nine inches in height and they are ...

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