Bulbs

I am one of those people who just can't make their garden grow anything more exotic that dandelions, buttercups, thistles, ground ivy and nettles. Some people may call this an untidy garden but I call it a 'wildlife garden'. (After all, it's the only wildlife I get these days). Then, last year, I was given a bag of what looked like onions of all sizes to put into my garden. First of all I discovered that these were not onions and certainly not recommended for lunch. They were an assortment of hyacinths, daffodils, tulips, crocuses (or is it croci?) and snowdrops. I was advised to pot the hyacinths and put the others into the garden and just leave ...  Read the complete review

Welcome to Gardener’s Question Time. I’ve never had a request before. Not a polite one, anyway. So when a respected contributor – who ought, I suppose , to remain anonymous – asked me, by way of a comment on my "Birch" opinion, to write on this subject, I should have been chuffed. I say, should have been. Actually, I’ve been knocked right off my eggs here. You see, it’s quite easy to appear reasonably knowledgeable, when I choose the topics, and take no questions from the floor. Have you ever watched some of these gardening programmes, where members of the public bring in plants (usually ...  Read the complete review

I love gardening and always have, when I moved to England the best thing was where I had only lived in flats before, I finally had a small patch of green to call my own! In order to get that luscious and lush look to the patch of weeds that had been purchased I chose to do a number of things. I could have spent a fortune buying wonderful tall specimens of plants that would normally take 5 years to grow for that instant impact of colour. Moneywise gardening on a budget precluded this from happening so I had to resort to cuttings from friends and relatives and hope that one day they would become this big, purchasing various publications that offered ...  Read the complete review

Bulbs, Hyacinths ohhhhh ahhhhh aren?t they pretty my dear. I was making presents for Christmas for my mum and auntie this weekend. I shall be doing the same with the children at work this next week. Bulbs in pots brighten your room in the deep dark winter. Hyacinths are maybe the most popular bulbs to grow in a pot for the house, to give to granny for Christmas. Our family?s grannies have always received at least one. I expect it will be my turn soon. Hyacinths come in blue, red, pink, yellow (lemon) and white. They grow to about 8 inches high are fragrant the blue smelling the strongest. The flower spike grows in the ...  Read the complete review

It is no secret on here that I love my onions! I grow fruit and vegetables, and use the fruit for jam, and the vegetables, for....well whatever you use vegetables, for! However, this op is about the uneatable onion. The bulbs that will eventually grow into Daffodils and narcissi. When you hear the word daffodil, you (or at least I did) immediately think of the yellow-trumpeted plant that grows at around this time each year, and can be found in gardens, parks and hedgerows all over the place. Strictly speaking, the daffodil is just one member of the Narcissi family, of which there are numerous members. Daffodils and Narcissi herald the return of spring. ...  Read the complete review