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Designing with Bulbs
BY REBECCA SAWYER-FAY
Like bright flags announcing spring’s arrival, daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, and many other flowering bulbs transform the once-dreary landscape. Seemingly overnight, winter’s drab overcoat is shed for a petticoat of pastel pinks, hot reds, and brilliant yellows. Perhaps no other group of plants has the power to alter our collective mood the way bulbs do.
Tulip Beds: Extend Your Flowering Season
Tulip Beds: Extend Your Flowering Season
“It comes so slowly and goes so fast…”
In our region, we often seem to go from dead-of-winter to blazing summer in a matter of weeks. Keeping spring-flowering bulbs going as long as possible is a real challenge, but with a little ingenuity, you can have a fine display right into early June. The secret is good planning and preparation, and the time to begin is right now!
Bulb Choices: Some of the Others
Bulb Choices: Some of the Others
Spring is in the air! Well, that’s the feeling you may have when you walk through area Garden Shops this month. With posters on display and pictures on the boxes it is all a colourful reminder that now is the time to start planting bulbs. The next few months are the ideal time to plant bulbs, although some like Darwin and Single Late Tulips can be planted as late as January and still flower beautifully in May.
Daffodils for American Gardens
Daffodils for American Gardens
If you’ve ever wanted a source for regionally grown bulbs and set out to find one, you may have encountered a catalog from ‘The Daffodil Mart.’ The couple who started The Daffodil Mart have a new book, ‘Daffodils for American Gardens’. Brent and Becky Heath, third generation commercial bulb growers from Gloucester, VA have created this extensive manuscript on daffodils, their culture and growth characteristics with special emphasis on their usage in the American gardens.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Plant a Pocketful of Dreams
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Plant a Pocketful of Dreams
The recipe for happiness on a cold March day with bare trees whistling in the wind and gray clouds whipping across the sky, is to dream up a summer garden. I asked my friend Helmut Jaehnigen, head of the woody plants department at Behnke’s, what is the most exciting flower that he will plant in his garden this summer and got a surprising answer. Helmut just loves summer bulbs, and above all other he loves the canna, that regal flower that looks like a water iris painted by a rainbow.
Summer Trumpets:
Summer Trumpets:
Ooo, ooo, I’m like Roo jumping up and down and shouting in the Pooh stories. There’s NO containing my enthusiasm. All spring I wore a path checking their progress thinking surely I must’ve counted wrong and I counted again. So what if they’re a bit crooked and won’t be legible for a blue at any upcoming show. I’d never enter them because I wouldn’t think of cutting them, well, maybe one bloom at a time…some have as many as 15 buds, some 11 or 9, it’s going to be heaven in my yard for at least a month. The scent will be overwhelming.
Bearded Iris: Iris germanica
Bearded Iris: Iris germanica
Dig up crowded bearded german iris rhizomes now through August. Shake soil free and cut off old rhizome, leaving only fresh new growth. They should look very healthy; no shriveled or holey parts! Trim off flower stem and leave about 6-8 inches of leaves on the new rhizome. Keep them dry till you are ready to replant. There’s no hurry, they can get pretty dry and still live. Once mine set a week in a brown paper bag and survived, though I’m not recommending you do that. If it had rained on them they would have rotted so keep them dry.
