When the chill of winter begins to fade, it’s time to think ahead to summer. That’s when your garden can burst into colour – provided you’ve tucked the right bulbs into the soil before spring. From ...

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 ...

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 ...

DENVER — Even if frost has blackened the leaves of your cannas, dahlias and other summer bulbs, it's still possible to save them. Because these bulbs aren't winter hardy, they must be stored inside ...

Our simple porch decoration until Halloween: intact pumpkins with some spooky lights. These will be carved about 24 hours before potential trick-or-treaters arrive. It is almost Halloween! Will you be ...

University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than ...

With winter right around the corner, there’s no better time to start preparing your garden for colder temperatures and harsh weather. One gardening task you should get done before frost hits involves ...

With the end of summer and beginning of fall, gardeners’ thoughts turn to winterizing the garden. There is so much to do! Here are just a few of the many fall chores we need to be thinking about this ...

August Has 2 Birth Flowers to Choose From—Here's What They Symbolize originally appeared on Parade. August birthdays are here and there’s no better way to celebrate than with the August birth flowers ...

Gladiolus flowers are impossible not to spot in the garden. With their majestic spikes of eye-catching flowers, they’re a striking accent plant. They have a clumping form, with long, dramatic ...

When you hear “bulbs” you might think of springtime plants – tulips, daffodils, iris, and others. But did you know there are plenty of summer-flowering bulbs that you can plant in the spring? These ...