Tulips, Tulip-o-mania and Tulip Virus
Tulip-o-mania, or tulpenmanie in Dutch, both made and lost fortunes in the seventeenth century. Tulips are still one of the most […]
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Bulbs, Corms, Tubers
Growing Fritillaria in Your Garden
Growing Fritillaria in your garden is looking like it may become something of a new obsession. Well, if I go
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Hippeastrum or Amaryllis? Christmas Flowering Bulbs
Botanical Latin scholars among you may be aware why the flowering bulb we have in our houses at Christmas is
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Types of Dahlia – Glorious Blooms
The phrase ‘types of Dahlia’ are where these wonderful flowers are divided into groups, placing similar Dahlia varieties together. For
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Types of Tulips
How many types of tulips are there?! Having first seen acres of them growing in Holland at the age of
Dahlia Tips and Facts
Dahlia tips and facts to entertain and educate so you can more easily grow beautiful blooms and amuse others with
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Types of Daffodils
The phrase ‘types of daffodils’ refers to the way in which similar Narcissus are grouped together. Properly referred to as
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The four o’clock plant
The four o’clock plant – a plant that tells the time. Or should that be “A plant that tells the thyme”?
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Dwarf Daffodils for Spring Colour
Would you like dwarf daffodils for spring colour in your garden? Some are guaranteed to liven up dull days with
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How to Enjoy Spring Flowering Bulbs
How to enjoy spring flowering bulbs – although it is possible to have bulbous plants flowering in your garden nearly
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Growing Lily of the Valley
Growing Lily of the Valley, her Majesty HM Queen Elizabeth’s favourite flower. Relevant for any year, it seemed highly appropriate
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What are Bulbs in the Green?
What are Bulbs in the Green? The answer is as follows – Flowering bulbs which bloom in late winter and
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Forcing Bulbs for Christmas flowers
Forcing bulbs for Christmas flowers whether as a present to give to others or to keep for yourself can be
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Bluebells
Bluebells are found throughout the British Isles and Ireland; indeed, over half the world’s population of bluebells is here. But
Daffodil Fact and Fiction plus Planting Ideas
Did you know that Daffodils are reliably in the top 5 most popular flowers in the UK? But that’s not
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Bulbs, Corms, Tubers, Rhizomes – What is the Difference?
“What is the Difference between bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes?” I hear you ask. “I’m not even sure what they all
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Understanding Dahlias
Understanding Dahlias – well, they’re complicated plants, you know. For starters, Dahlias are tuberous perennials as the flower grows from
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Tulips
Tulips have the ability to be ‘kitsch’, minimalist, cottagey, formal, statuesque and fun. There was (is) a romantic song entitled
5 Miniature Daffodils for Pots and Containers
Pots and containers filled with dwarf daffodils are guaranteed to liven up dull spring days and give a zing of
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Autumn Gardening Tasks – Lifting Perennial Tubers
Lifting perennial tubers in the Autumn is often seen as a complicated gardening task. But it isn’t really. Dahlias and Begonias
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Snowdrop Flowers
Snowdrop flowers, snowdrop bulbs and snowdrops in the green … it almost sounds like the first line of a poem
Six Poisonous Flowering Bulbs
Plants which are poisonous flowering bulbs can be found in most gardens. This doesn’t mean that we are all at
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Easter Lilies
Easter lilies, Lilium longiflorum, are a traditional Easter flower. Their white trumpet flowers give out a heady scent that you either
Daffodils for St Davids Day
Daffodils for St Davids Day because daffodils are one of the Welsh national emblems. Daffodils, also commonly known by their botanical
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Daffodils – Heralds of Spring in your Garden
Daffodils are a sunny flower in an often dull month; hence their title ‘Heralds of Spring’ reminding us that winter
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Vodka drinking Tulips and heroic Snowdrops
Or how the bulbs in your garden kept their secret all winter. Snowdrops (Galanthus) and Tulips are both bulbous plants, as
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Daffodil bulb – poisonous bulbs
Sitting down to lunch on a daffodil bulb may sound exotic, but.. .(NB Bad poetry alert) Daffodils are deadly, Be
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