For plant people, August is the month you may have received a tempting bulb catalog in your inbox or mailbox from a company you previously purchased from. How can it be time to order spring bulbs ...

Q. I’ve received some flower bulb catalogs offering really attractive amaryllis bulbs that can be grown in pots. I’d like to try them, but they are kind of expensive. What are my chances of success? A ...

You probably should have started a couple of months ago, when fall-planted bulbs first appeared for sale at garden centers and bulb catalogs showed up in your mail. Your selection would have been ...

Now is the time to study the flower bulb catalogs that are arriving in the mail. If by some some fluke you have escaped the notice of the Dutch bulbmongers and no one has sent you a catalog, you can ...

Species tulips are perfect for our climate. Many can take hot summers without a sweat. They hold foliage through much of the early to midsummer and build bigger, better and more flowerful bulbs for ...

This fall my small band of volunteer gardeners, the Late Bloomers, have begun work on a wild flower pollinator garden at the OPC, the senior citizen’s center in Rochester. Because many of the flowers ...

Even while our perennial and annual flower gardens are bursting with bloom, we should think about spring color. After a long, prairie winter we will be ready for tulips, daffodils and other bulb ...

Take a good look at your garden and envision how you’d like it to look in spring. Now it’s time to buy the bulbs that will bring the beauty. Courtesy Johnson County Extension For plant people, August ...