Can you imagine a river of blue flowers flowing through your yard? If you were to visit the Dutch Keukenhof Gardens in the spring, there is an area called the “Blue River.” A broad, azure river is ...

Provide pollinators with flowers as soon as possible by planting these bulbs that are some of the first to flower in spring. Usually one of the first signs of spring, snowdrops produce white flowers ...

Imagine springtime and you probably dream in yellow: daffodils, forsythia, sunshine. But the sun shines brightest in a blue sky. And the deep, rich tones of spring are blue, from palest pearl to deep ...

Flowering bulbs are one of the harbingers of spring, bringing with them a splash of unexpected color. For all their beauty, bulbs are surprisingly low maintenance, containing both seed and the source ...

The smaller bulbs of grape hyacinths can easily be forced indoors, but larger hyacinth bulbs require a bit more effort. Buy bulbs that have been specifically prepared for indoor forcing with a ...

Q: The foliage of grape hyacinths looks nice for a while when it comes up in the fall, but right around now - when it starts to look straggly and unattractive and catches leaves - I get an itchy ...

Q: I have a lot of grape hyacinths naturalizing in my front lawn. I was careful not to mow them, but it's been a few mowings now, and my front lawn looks stupid with a dozen tall clumps of grass with ...

Unlike its larger relatives, dwarf iris is ideal for indoor forcing thanks to its size, which makes it well-suited to container growing. Montgomery advises that this spring bulb requires about 10 to ...