For those of us who live in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 through 8, we can start planting our tulip bulbs now. If you live a ...

Even if you have plenty of winter-friendly plants in your garden the months of gloomy weather can feel endless. Perhaps that's why we love tulips so much: They're a sign that spring has finally ...

HOLLAND, MI — Tulip Time will close its immersion garden one day early because “extreme and unexpected heat” are hurting the tulips. “The unexpected and extreme heat over the week of the festival has ...

Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to force plants to direct energy toward more blooms, more fruit ...

Dear Helen: The tulips I potted early in the fall have been a delight this spring. Now I’m wondering how to save the bulbs for blooming again next year. As long as there is a spot in the garden for ...

CORVALLIS – In fall, gardeners settle bulbs under a blanket of soil and wait for spring to watch them flaunt their beauty. “It’s easy to create a stunning display that bursts into bloom in the spring ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu. I have about 80 tulip bulbs that I purchased in early November, and ...

M.B.: Snip off the stem and any faded flower head left on your tulips, then "water" the remaining leaves with liquid plant food. Late May and June is the time when tulips are storing energy and making ...

Spring is not just a promise when you're holding a handful of tulip bulbs: It's a bright and colorful guarantee. Each tulip bulb contains the germ of at least one cheerful flower. Planting them now, ...

In early May, when most Maine gardens are bedraggled beds of brown stems and leaves, Molly Ahrens’s yard dazzles with Monet-like dabs of color from more than 1,000 tulips: frilly burgundy flames, ...