Tender, non-hardy bulbs with poor cold tolerance often freeze and die if left in the ground during the winter. For instance, unlike their hardy cousins like tulips and daffodils, dahlias, cannas, and ...

Gladiolus are gorgeous, impressive, summer-blooming flowers that grow from corms. Some hardy varieties are available that survive winter weather in many USDA growing zones but others are hardy only in ...

Every flower bulb holds a secret deep in its heart: a furled bud (or a few) poised to pop out in the warmth of spring. But why wait until then? Choose the right bulbs now, treat them well, and they ...

However, we do not need to dig and store canna rhizomes over the winter down here, so this is needless work. Up North, ...

While you may associate flowering bulbs with spring, the work for getting these beauties to bloom actually begins during fall and winter. Many bulbs can still be planted in the garden in the winter, ...

This week’s work in our garden includes digging up and preparing gladiolus bulbs for winter storage. Gladiolus, or glads for short, cannot survive in the ground though the winter in our area. Even ...

It is time to start thinking about storing the tender bulbs those that will not survive Nebraska winters. Tendar bulbs are planted during the spring each year and must be dug in the fall and stored ...

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 ...

Dahlia tubers going into peat-moss storage for winter. I pulled my gladiola and elephant ears bulbs after the frost killed the leaves. I'd like to store them over winter inside. What kind of material ...

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 ...