My Spring Bulbs Won't Bloom - Why?

Article by: Doug Green

You can hear the wailing from here. "Why aren't my bulbs , Popular Adirondack Chairs - Everything You Need To Know blooming?"Â "There are a lot of leaves on them but not a single flower. , How to Grow Ornamental Grasses "Â

The overall cause of a bulb , Companion Planting not producing a bloom is either the bud , Landscaping With Boulders - Do your Neighbors look at your Yard and say WOW wasn't formed or it was damaged in some way. No bud , Bonsai Trees For Sale - Things To Know Before You Buy equals no flower. , May Gardening Tips for the Southwest

Here's why your bud , Flower Shops might have been killed:

There wasn't enough sunlight last summer , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat or you planted your bulbs , Red Rose History in too shady an area. For the most part, spring , Lazy Fish Worries blooming bulbs , How to Build a Shed want full sunshine for at least six hours a day. If you do not give them enough sunshine, they may live but not have enough energy , Orchids Are One Of Nature's Most Beautiful Flowers to produce a flower , May Gardening Tips for the Southwest bud.

You might have cut off the foliage last year before it yellowed naturally. If you cut off the foliage before it yellows, the bulb , Lawn Edging will not be able to get enough sunlight to produce a bud. , Birdhouses Remember Doug Green's number one rule for growing bulbs, , Lawn Edging "Grow the foliage, the flower , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat will take care of itself."Â You might have tied up the foliage over top of the bulb , Orchids Are One Of Nature's Most Beautiful Flowers to give yourself , Soil Plus Compost Equals Lush Healthy Plants room to plant , Tick Bites annuals. This is an old trick that won't go away but is still not recommended for growing , How to Grow Ornamental Grasses good bulb , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat leaves. (Do you think you'd grow , A Low Maintenance Landscape Can Save You Money very well if you had to hold your arms over your head all the time?)

You might have planted them too early last fall. , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat Once the bulb , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer had rooted and the ground was still warm, it might have started to produce a flower , Hibiscus s bud. Once that bud , Winterizing Your Roses emerges, it either lives or dies on the soil , Butterfly House in the Flower Garden temperature. An emerged bud , Outdoor Furniture: Exploring the Benefits of Teak that hits frozen or too-cold soil , Lawn Furniture: Wood, Metal, or Plastic? Classy, Convenient, or Cheap? is going to die and this means there won't be another bud , Benefit from the Expertise of a Landscaping Contractor for the following spring. , Tick Bites

Perhaps you overfed or overwatered those bulbs. , Gardening with Bamboo Overwatering bulbs , Gardening on a Budget will most often kill them because they will rot (think of leaving an onion in a glass , Winterizing Your Roses of water). Spring , How to Grow Ornamental Grasses flowering bulbs , Birdhouses have developed in areas where there is winter-cold and spring-rains but summer , Gardening on a Budget drought. When you water , Low Maintenance Teak Furniture your garden , Want to Stamp Your Patio? in the summer , Barefoot at the Cottage to keep the annuals , Storage Sheds and perennials , Spring Planting Tips happy, you are making your bulbs , The Tools You'll Need for Gardening unhappy. Too much water , Birdhouses and the bulbs , Low Maintenance Teak Furniture will disappear taking their flowers , Birdhouses with them.

Perhaps the bulbs , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat have grown up magnificently and multiplied. If so, they might simply require dividing to produce flowers , Hibiscus s again. This is not likely in a normal garden , Orchids Are One Of Nature's Most Beautiful Flowers setting but possible. You can tell if there are scads of leaves all coming from the same small area if the bulbs , Flower Gardening are too crowded.

You want to know if it is a disease. , Landscape Lighting The odds are that it is not. Bulb diseases , Lazy Fish Worries either disfigure flowers , Bonsai Trees For Sale - Things To Know Before You Buy or kill the bulbs. , Grow Some Interesting Plants You Won't Find At Your Local Greenhouse None just kill off the flower , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 5) Plant Growth bud.

The odds are it is a cultural thing and not a disease. , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat You just have to figure out what you need to give the bulb , Learn How to Enhance Your Habitat to make it happy. You can do this at Doug Green's flower-garden-bulbs.com website

Remember, grow , Some Interesting Plants You Won't Find At Your Local Greenhouse those leaves to make the flowers , Butterfly House in the Garden bloom.

copyright Douglas Green , Low Maintenance Teak Furniture 2005

Doug Green , Popular Adirondack Chairs - Everything You Need To Know is an award winning garden , Low Maintenance Teak Furniture writer with over 30 years experience in the horticultural industry. His bulb , The Tools You'll Need for Gardening website is at http://www.flower-garden-bulbs.com and his garden , Understanding Soil Nutrients blog is at http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

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