City Gardening

a gardening blog-a-zine by Lorraine Flanigan

Posts Tagged ‘flower bulbs’

Bulbs Like It Cool

By Lorraine • Oct 10th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Fall

Colourful bulbs are calling out to us from the shelves of garden centres and from the pages of mail order catalogues. Their siren sounds seem to say, “Buy me, plant me, water me and you’ll be rewarded with my spring beauty.”To succumb to these irresistible cries is to play into the hands of the squirrels. [...]



Tips for Designing with Bulbs

By Lorraine • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Fall, Plants, Season-By-Season

In an age of instant gratification, it’s a wonder we have the patience to plant fall bulbs at all when we know it’ll be a good five to six months before we see their flowers in bloom.Why do these plants hold such sway over our impatient tendencies? Certainly there’s a feeling of satisfaction at planting [...]



Plan a season-long display of bulbs

By Lorraine • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Fall, Plants, Spring

Think spring now! To ignore the coming season is to court horticultural disaster – a naked garden devoid of tulips, crocuses and daffodils when across the street your neighbours flaunt their vernal finery. Fall is the time to plant these colourful spring flower bulbs.For gardeners, the bins of bulbs that line the aisles of garden [...]



Plant naked ladies for instant fall colour

By Lorraine • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Fall, Season-By-Season

Are there naked ladies in your garden? Calm down, I’m not talking about nude gardening; I’m referring to flower bulbs that bloom in the fall.Naked ladies, also called autumn crocus and known botanically as Colchicum, are bulbs that can be planted right now that will bloom this fall – unlike other hardy bulbs, such as [...]