Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter conditions tricks bulbs into blooming early by chilling them before ...

Previous generations of gardeners knew that coaxing bulbs to bloom early was the easiest way to have fresh flowers in winter. Here’s how they did it. By Margaret Roach Before Page Dickey and Francis ...

Q: I would like to try to force some bulbs this fall and winter. Which varieties work well, and how cold does the space for forcing need to be? A: November is a great time to start the forcing process ...

I always think about writing an article on forcing bulbs in December or January, when we all want to have forced bulbs indoors to enjoy. The problem with that thinking is – the time to start forcing ...

If the wait for bulbs to bloom in spring seems excruciatingly long, you can pot some up now and enjoy a floriferous winter indoors. Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to ...

Now's the time to pot up bulbs for forcing blooms early in the new year. It's easy. Our plan gives you a succession of bulbs for up to six weeks, with crocuses starting the show and tulips closing it.

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 ...

Spring-flowering bulbs are relatively easy to force. Two bulbs, paperwhites and amaryllis, do not need much special treatment to do it. Most of the other spring-flowering bulbs need a cold treatment ...

I love the winter, but by March I am ready for spring. I usually have some snowdrops blooming in March on a south-facing hillside, but they are subtle, not bodacious blooms. So I plant lots of bulbs ...

Many gardeners know that November and December are prime months for planting spring-flowering bulbs such as crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and tulips outdoors. Some gardeners want a taste of that ...

Forcing bulbs brings the beauty of spring flowers inside your home during the cold winter months. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up ...