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Tips for Using Tulips as Cut Flowers Longfield Gardens
Tips for Using Tulips as Cut Flowers

How to Grow, Cut and Condition Tulips Tulips have been stealing the hearts of gardeners and florists for centuries. Their bold, brilliant blooms li...

Tips for Using Daffodils as Cut Flowers - Longfield Gardens
Tips for Using Daffodils as Cut Flowers

How to Cut, Condition and Arrange Daffodils After a long, cold winter, the sight of daffodil foliage pushing up through the earth is cause for cele...

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Spacing Recommendations for Fall-Planted Bulbs

How Many Bulbs Do You Need to Plant? As with most things gardening, there are no hard and fast rules for how closely to space spring-blooming bulbs...

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Common Tulip Pests or Diseases

Tulips are stunning flowers that breathe fresh life into the spring garden. Unfortunately, their beauty is sometimes tarnished or destroyed by dise...

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How to Dig and Store Ranunculus Corms

Practical Tips for Overwintering Ranunculus Corms The late spring garden wouldn't be complete without a bed of delicate ranunculus flowers blowing ...

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How To Force Tulips Indoors

Get a Jump on Spring With Potted Tulips A cheerful pot of forced tulips on the kitchen counter brightens even the gloomiest of winter days. These c...

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Expert Tips for Cutting and Arranging Spring Flowers

How to Make Prettier, Longer Lasting Bouquets It’s always such a long wait for spring’s first flowers. Once they appear, the surge of color, combin...

How to Naturalize Daffodils (Video)
How to Naturalize Daffodils (Video)

You don’t need a garden to grow daffodils. In fact, one of the best ways to enjoy these cheery spring flower bulbs is to plant them in the landscap...

How to Plant Tulip Bulbs (Video)
How to Plant Tulip Bulbs (Video)

Get Your Tulips Off to a Great Start This video covers when, where, and how to plant tulips, with lots of tips to help ensure your success. You’ll...

How to Plant Daffodil Bulbs (Video)
How to Plant Daffodil Bulbs (Video)

Get Your Daffodils Off to a Great Start In this planting video, you’ll see the full range of daffodil flower styles, colors, and bloom times. You’...

5 Ways to Plant Fall Bulbs (Video)
5 Ways to Plant Fall Bulbs (Video)

Expert Tips to Ensure a Beautiful Spring Garden In this video from Erin at The Impatient Gardener, you'll discover five easy ways to plant tulips, ...

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How to Care for Spring Flower Bulbs After They Bloom

Aftercare for Tulips, Daffodils and Other Spring Bulbs Spring-blooming flower bulbs get the gardening season off to an early start. From the first ...

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Which Spring-Blooming Bulbs are Perennial

Will Your Bulbs Bloom for More Than One Year? Gardeners often wonder if they can expect their tulips, daffodils, crocus and other spring-flowering ...

When to Plant Spring-Blooming Flower Bulbs
When to Plant Spring-Blooming Flower Bulbs

Expert Tips to Ensure Your Success Fall is the time for planting crocus, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, alliums and other spring-blooming flowers. P...

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How To Force Bulbs for Indoor Flowers

Enjoy Indoor Blooms During Winter and Early Spring Plants have internal time clocks that determine when they bloom -- daffodils in spring, roses in...

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Planning Guide for Daffodils

Choose Daffodils by Flower Style and Bloom Time By mixing and matching different types of daffodils, you can have these cheery spring flowers bloom...

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Planning Guide For Tulips

How to Have Tulips in Bloom for a Month or More Shopping for tulips can be overwhelming. There are so many beautiful choices that it's hard to know...

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How to Force Hyacinth Bulbs

Expert Tips for Getting Hyacinths to Bloom Indoors Dutch hyacinths are some of the world’s most fragrant flowers. They are a wonderful addition to ...

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7 Tips for Planting Tulips

Ensure Your Success With These Colorful Spring Bulbs There's nothing difficult about growing tulips. Inside every bulb is a beautiful flower tha...

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Planning Guide for Alliums

Fill Your Garden With Alliums of All Sizes and Shapes It's said that "timing is everything." For gardeners, knowing when a plant will bloom is de...