Planting and Caring for Flower Bulbs
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Article by: Michael McGroarty There is nothing quite as welcome as those beautiful , Nepeta Faassenii 'Kit Kat' spring flowers , A Guide To Landscape Bridges that seem to emerge from nowhere to welcome the arrival of spring. , Weeds - We Need 'Em Bulb , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio type flowers , What Is A Black Orchid - Fascinating But Elusive are really unique plants, , Weeds - We Need 'Em because they spend most of their days resting quietly beneath the surface of the soil. , Using Annuals in Your Perrenial Garden Then right on schedule, up they come, full of bloom and vigor, and then almost as fast as they came, they go. Except for the green , Garden Folklore: Plants Thrive in Good Company leafy part of the plant , Garden Folklore: s Thrive in Good Company that tends to linger longer than we would like them to. Despite their short bloom time and unattractive foliage after the blooms are gone, they are still a wonderful addition to any landscape. , To Make Your Own Garden in a Pot But how should you care for them? First let's talk about how to , Patio Enclosures use them in your landscape. , Patio Design - Add Awnings As A Colorful Finish For Your Patio Design Flowers , Pruning Trees of all kinds are best when planted in groupings. Many people buy 25 or 50 bulbs , Gardens: They are Fragrant, Breathtaking— the Perfect Idea for More Outdoor Decor and just go around the yard , Some Of The Most Common Landscape Design Features planting helter skelter. That's fine if that's what you want, but when planted that way they tend to blend in with the landscape , Garden Sheds - More Than Just Storage and really don't show up well at all. When you plant , Using Annuals in Your Perrenial Garden them in large groups they are a breathtaking showpiece. In the early spring , Oregano: Joy of the Mountain start thinking about where you would like to create a bed , Basics of Pruning Roses for flower , Patio Enclosures bulbs. Prepare the bed , Viburnum by raising it with good rich topsoil, and if at all possible add some well composted cow manure. Do this in the spring , Caring for Your Garden Furniture while you are in the gardening , Garden Art Ideas -- How to Make Your Planters Into Beautiful Garden Art mood; you may not be in the fall. , How to Get Ideas for Designing Your Garden Over the summer , Caring for Your Garden Furniture fill the bed , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio with annual flowers , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio to keep the weeds , Caring for Your Garden Furniture down, and to pretty up your yard , Pruning Trees for the summer. , Wood Furniture for the Outdoors: Durable, Dependable, and Pleasing to the Eye Come fall , Using Annuals in Your Perrenial Garden all you have to do is pull out the annuals , Weeds - We Need 'Em and plant , Patio Design - Add Awnings As A Colorful Finish For Your Patio Design your bulbs , Choosing the Proper Pond Pump to the depth recommended on the package. If you think you could have a problem with squirrels digging up the bulbs , Wood Furniture for the Outdoors: Durable, Dependable, and Pleasing to the Eye and eating them, you can also wrap the bulbs , How to Grow Chocolate Cosmos in steel wool, leaving just the tip , The Basics of Plant Growth; Part 1 Hormones of the bulb , Garden Folklore: Plants Thrive in Good Company exposed so it can grow , Caring for Your Garden Furniture out of the little wire cage you've created. Or you can just plant , Garden Folklore: s Thrive in Good Company the bulbs , Lattice Patio Covers and then cover the bed , Straw Bale Culture Technique with chicken wire or plastic , Forever & Ever Double Pink Hydrangea fencing until the bulbs , Brilliant Corners: House Plants and Your Health start to grow , Basil - the Queen of Herbs in the spring. , Orchids: A Luxurious Look That's Really Not Hard To Achieve When the bulbs , Garden Folklore: Plants Thrive in Good Company come up in the spring , Container Vegetable Gardening - The Easy Way To A Mouth-Watering Harvest and start blooming, you should clip off the blooms as they start to wither. This keeps the bulb , Pruning Trees from producing seeds, , Forever & Ever Double Pink Hydrangea which requires a lot of energy, , Pond Liner Repair and you want the bulb , Wood Furniture for the Outdoors: Durable, Dependable, and Pleasing to the Eye to use all of its available energy , What Is A Black Orchid - Fascinating But Elusive to store food , Attracting Birds To Your Garden in preparation for the bulb's resting period. Once the bulbs , To Make Your Own Garden in a Pot are completely done blooming you don't want to cut off the tops until they are withered and die back. The million dollar question is how to , Garden Sheds - More Than Just Storage treat the tops until that happens. Many people bend them over and slip a rubber band over them, or in the case of bulbs , Weeds - We Need 'Em like Daffodils tie them with one of the long leaves. This seems to work because it is a very common practice among many experienced gardeners. However, Mike is about to rain on the parade. I strongly disagree with this theory because back about 6th grade we learned about photosynthesis in science class. To recap what we learned, and without going into the boring details, photosynthesis is the process of the plant , Container Vegetable Gardening - The Easy Way To A Mouth-Watering Harvest using the sun's rays to make food , Patio Enclosures for itself. The rays from the sun , Patio Enclosures are absorbed by the foliage and the food , Patio Enclosures making process begins. In the case of a flower , Brilliant Corners: House Plants and Your Health bulb this food , Adirondack Chairs - How to Care for and Clean Them is transported to the bulb , Lap Pools – Great Exercise Inside Or Any Size Backyard beneath the ground and stored for later use. So basically the leaves of the plant , Brilliant Corners: House s and Your Health are like little solar , Container Vegetable Gardening - The Easy Way To A Mouth-Watering Harvest panels. Their job is to absorb the rays from the sun , Using Annuals in Your Perrenial Garden to begin the process known as photosynthesis. If we fold them over and handcuff them with their hands behind their back, they are not going to be able to do their job. It's like throwing a tarpaulin over 80% of a solar , Wood Furniture for the Outdoors: Durable, Dependable, and Pleasing to the Eye panel. In order for the leaves to absorb the rays from the sun, , Caring for Your Garden Furniture the surface of the foliage has to be exposed to the sun. , Bonsai Trees For Sale: What Are Your Options? On top of that, when you bend the foliage over, you are restricting the flow of nutrients to the bulb. , Gardens: They are Fragrant, Breathtaking— the Perfect Idea for More Outdoor Decor The veins in the leaves and the stem are a lot like our blood vessels. If you restrict them the flow stops. You decide. I've presented my case. Bending them over seems to work, but I've spent a lot of money on my bulbs. , Wood Furniture for the Outdoors: Durable, Dependable, and Pleasing to the Eye I want them running at full speed. What I do is clip the blooms off once they are spent, and just leave the tops alone until they are yellow and wilted. If they are still not wilted when it's time to plant , Container Vegetable Gardening - The Easy Way To A Mouth-Watering Harvest my annual flowers, , Teak Umbrella : Add the Final Touch to Your Patio I just plant , A Guide To Landscape Bridges the annuals , How to Grow Chocolate Cosmos in between the bulbs. , How to Grow Chocolate Cosmos As the bulbs , Adirondack Chairs - How to Care for and Clean Them die back the annuals , Patio Heaters: A Way To A Comfortable Outdoor Gatherings tend to grow , The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design and conceal them. If one shows through I clip it off. It seems to work well for me.Michael J. McGroarty is the author of this article. Visit his most interesting website, http://www.freeplants.com and sign up for his excellent gardening , Patio Gazebos - Add Some Intrigue to Your Patio newsletter. Michael J. McGroarty has more than 30 years experience in the landscape , Hillside Landscaping-Proper Watering gardening/nursery industry. He's spent the better part of his life on his hands and knees in the dirt working with plants , Pond Liner Repair and his hands-on experience allows Mike to write in a manner than many gardeners find to be helpful and beneficial. You are welcome to use this article on your website or in your newsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including the contact information , Viburnum at the end. Website URLs must be active links. You are welcome to use this article with an affiliate link, http://www.freeplants.com/resellers.htm |
  
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