Learn how to plant, care for, and force the bulbs of your paperwhites. They're great gifts for the holidays or all year long.

If you want to enjoy the vibrant colors and fragrances of flowers indoors while it's bleak and chilly outside, consider forcing bulbs. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and other ...

Are you ready for a little indoor color? Forcing flower bulbs indoors is a great way to enjoy flowers during the cold months. It all starts with choosing the right type of bulb. Early-flowering spring ...

During the dreary days of winter, we often long for the colors of spring. With a little planning, we can bring those spring colors indoors by forcing flowering bulbs to bloom indoors during the colder ...

A beautiful spring garden starts in the off-season. While you may associate flowering bulbs with spring, the work for getting these beauties to bloom actually begins during fall and winter. Many bulbs ...

Last week I wrote that I’d go over the process of bulb forcing. So, here goes! The definition of “forcing” a bulb is to get it to grow and bloom at a time when it usually wouldn’t. You’ve all seen ...

Q: I wanted to share photos about forcing spring bulbs in pots, which I’ve been doing here in western North Dakota for about 30 years. I usually have some hyacinths blooming for Christmas, with more ...

Happy New Year, dear readers: We not only mark the beginning of a fresh calendar year, but also celebrate the recent winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of our season. It may seem ...

Autumn adorns us with vibrant leaves, whispering grasses, warm colorful mums, colorful cucurbits and sun-bleached cornstalks. Time spent cleaning up the gardens and yard now will be appreciated come ...

Hyacinth is a showy and fragrant flowering bulb. These plants are renowned for their blue blooms, the rarest of all flower colors, but they also boast purple, pink, red, or white flowers. No matter ...