It is a gardener's nature to want to plant some of each type of bulb. Narcissus 'Actaea' to pick and bring inside the house for fragrance. Fringed parrot tulips planted in pots for the elegant way ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: To honor my mother, I would like to plant crocus bulbs on her grave site. And of course the cemetery is going to mow them off in the spring. Will they survive, or is this a waste of ...

The vibrant crocus bulbs will blow away any winter cobwebs still lurking around A carpet of colourful crocuses Fresh Saffron flowers known also as Crocus sativus used as a spice for flavoring and ...

FOR many gardeners the period between the beginning of the year and summer is measured in flowering bulbs. Even if we didn’t have a calendar to guide us, we could still tell roughly whereabouts in the ...

Did the norther last Sunday put you in the mood for the seasonal chore of planting spring-blooming bulbs? While it is too early to put tulips and hyacinths in the ground, Narcissus species and the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Flower bulbs are at the top of my list for action this week. The heaven-sent days of rain have changed the ...

Even among other little brown blobs — inconspicuous detritus such as abandoned cocoons, say, or concretions of lint — the bulbs of species crocus look unremarkable. When planted in the soil — as ...