Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter conditions tricks bulbs into blooming early by chilling them before ...

If the wait for bulbs to bloom in spring seems excruciatingly long, you can pot some up now and enjoy a floriferous winter indoors. Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the holiday decorations come down and winter seems to drag on in Northeast Ohio, forced flower bulbs ...

Now's the time to pot up bulbs for forcing blooms early in the new year. It's easy. Our plan gives you a succession of bulbs for up to six weeks, with crocuses starting the show and tulips closing it.

I love the winter, but by March I am ready for spring. I usually have some snowdrops blooming in March on a south-facing hillside, but they are subtle, not bodacious blooms. So, I plant lots of bulbs ...

Although Chiffon margarine touted in a 1970s television ad campaign, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature," Berkshire and Southern Vermont green thumbs can trick the ole gal into having an early ...

If you want to force bulbs to bloom indoors for the holidays, it's time to think about getting started. There are, of course, prechilled bulbs such as paperwhites and many hyacinths that are a snap to ...

Forcing bulbs brings the beauty of spring flowers inside your home during the cold winter months. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up ...

Winter’s here can be long and cold. Sometimes they are burdensome for a guy like me who loves being outside playing in the garden -- planting and picking flowers, or harvesting lettuce and berries.