City Gardening » bulbs http://citygardeningonline.com a gardening blog-a-zine by Lorraine Flanigan Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:38:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 8 of 10 Ways to Get Through Winter http://citygardeningonline.com/dig-in/8-of-10-ways-to-get-through-winter/ http://citygardeningonline.com/dig-in/8-of-10-ways-to-get-through-winter/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:59:50 +0000 Lorraine http://citygardeningonline.com/?p=493 zoeterwoudegardens064_129x1788. Take the wreath off the door! Okay, so I should have taken down the Christmas wreath well before  now, but somehow it takes the first warm spring day to propel me into action. Into the recycling bin it goes! The first of the forced potted bulbs are now appearing at green grocers and I couldn’t resist picking up a pot of Muscari over the weekend, which promptly received a dusting of snow this morning. Ah, well, from years past, I’ve realized that muscari is much tougher than most spring bulbs and will bounce back with plenty of blooms.

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to be asked to join a press trip in Holland and visited Appeltern, a huge display garden full of great ideas, including designs for outdoor spring floral arrangements and wreaths. These caught my eye.

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