Bulbs

Tips on Forcing Hyacinth Bulbs     Hyacinth bulbs need to have well developed roots before they can be forced and brought inside. If you rush things and try to bring them on before a [...]

Autumn Planting is best but why have we got out of the habit? When I left college and started my first job, it was common practice to plant your garden in the autumn. Now we seem to wait for the [...]

I call it layered bulb planting but some call this “lasagna planting”. It’s easy to see why. Planting spring flowering bulbs in layers one on top of the other really does extend the flowering [...]

Keukenhof Garden near Amsterdam puts on an astounding annual display of spring flowering bulbs. At the end of a cold and grey winter in Europe visitors flood to see this colour spectacle but [...]

Broadleigh Gardens is an impressive place! It specialises in growing and supplying superior garden bulbs and is situated just west of Taunton in Somerset. I visited the garden with the [...]

Daffodil blindness – that is apparently healthy daffodil bulbs but without flowers- is a puzzle to many gardeners. It can be easily rectified and here’s how. This phenomenon can be [...]

I just had to see the snowdrops at Elworthy Cottage. I’d intended to go before but somehow had always ended up visiting the bigger places. These had huge carpets of ‘ordinary’ [...]

Why plant tulips late? In this blog I’ll explain why it’s good to plant spring flowering tulips late – even as late as November! There’s nothing quite as magnificent as spring [...]