Posted on May 24, 2010 under silk flowers |
- Natural-looking & life-like
- Lush artificial Philo greenery
- Designer wood planter
- Perfect fit for above cabinets, fireplace mantel, and office half-walls
- 33″wide x 19″high x 15″deep
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This lush Philo ledge plant is handcrafted by House of Silk Flowers. Show your sense of style by adding this to the empty spaces above your kitchen cabinets, the fireplace mantel, or the top of that armoire. This arrangement is so versatile; you can even use it to bring a little life to your office. This ledge plant contains a professionally-arranged artificial philo plant securely ‘potted’ in a traditional metal and wood basket with 4 stable feet. The plant has bee… More >>
House of Silk Flowers Artificial Philo Ledge Plant 33″w x 19″h
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Posted on May 03, 2010 under silk flowers |
- Natural-looking & life-like
- Lush artificial Split Philo plant
- Traditional Designer metal planter
- Perfect fit for anywhere in your home or office
- 48h x 28w
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This classic artificial split philo plant is handcrafted by House of Silk Flowers. Show your sense of style by adding this to an empty corner in any room of your home or to add a little life to your office. This floor plant contains a professionally-arranged artificial split philo floor plant securely “potted” in a traditional designer metal planter. The plant has been arranged to allow 360-degree viewing (you won’t find an unattractive side on this plant). The over… More >>
House of Silk Flowers Artificial Split Philo Floor Plant 28″W x 48″H
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Posted on Apr 12, 2010 under silk flowers |
- Natural-looking & life-like
- Lush artificial Zebra plant
- Traditional Designer metal planter
- Perfect fit for anywhere in your home or office
- 48h x 28w
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This classic artificial zebra plant is handcrafted by House of Silk Flowers. Show your sense of style by adding this to an empty corner in any room of your home or to add a little life to your office. This floor plant contains a professionally-arranged artificial zebra plant floor plant securely “potted” in a traditional designer metal planter. The plant has been arranged to allow 360-degree viewing (you won’t find an unattractive side on this plant). The overall di… More >>
House of Silk Flowers Artificial Zebra Plant Floor Plant 28″W x 48″H
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Posted on Apr 11, 2010 under silk flowers |
- Natural-looking & life-like
- Lush artificial Areca Palm plant
- Contemporary zinc planter
- Perfect fit for anywhere in your home or office
- 48h x 28w
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This contemporary artificial areca palm is handcrafted by House of Silk Flowers. Show your sense of style by adding this to an empty corner in any room of your home or to add a little life to your office. This floor plant contains a professionally-arranged artificial areca palm floor plant securely “potted” in a contemporary zinc planter. The plant has been arranged to allow 360-degree viewing (you won’t find an unattractive side on this plant). The overall dimensio… More >>
House of Silk Flowers Artificial Areca Palm Floor Plant 28″W x 48″H
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Posted on Apr 03, 2010 under dried foliage |
As a group,flower bulbs are outstanding plants—colorful, showy, and generally easy to grow for container gardening. Many have evergreen foliage; with others, the leaves ripen after flowering and the bulbs are stored and started again, year after year. Some flower bulbs are hardy, others, tender, though what is, and is not hardy, in a particular area is a matter of winter temperature averages. In cold regions, tender types—tuberous begonias, gloxinias, and calla lilies—can be treated like summer in container gardens. This gives the gardener a wide variety to grow from earliest spring to late fall.
Dutch flower bulbs include crocus, snowdrops, eranthis or winter aconites, chionodoxas, scillas, grape hyacinths, leucojums or snowflakes, Dutch hyacinths, daffodils, and tulips, the pride of northern spring gardens. Though hardy, they are not adapted to garden containers outdoors where temperatures drop much below freezing. They require the protection of a shed, unheated cellar or cold frame. Gardening Pots can also be dug into a trench in the ground for the winter and covered with a thick blanket of marsh hay or straw. Where temperatures do not go below freezing, Dutch flower bulbs can be left outdoors in gardening pots over the winter.
For best results in a container garden, start with fresh, firm, large-sized flower bulbs each fall. Insure good drainage in the bottom of each garden pot and use a light soil with bone meal added. If in clay pots, plunge during the rooting period in damp peat moss to prevent rapid drying out. If this occurs too often, roots will be injured and flowers will be poor. When weather permits, after the danger of freezing passes, put your container garden outside where they are to flower or in a nursery row until they reach the bud stage. After blooming, move your container garden where foliage can ripen unseen.
For fragrance, concentrate on Dutch hyacinths, excellent for bedding large planter boxes or raised beds. Daffodils look well grouped around trees or large shrubs, as birches and forsythias. Tulips, formal in character, combine delightfully with pansies, violas, wall flowers, forget-me-nots, marguerites, English daisies, and annual candytuft in container gardens.
As already indicated, in cold areas, Dutch flower bulbs cannot be potted or planted in small window boxes and left outdoors unprotected for the winter. They can, however, be set out in large planters and boxes, deep and wide enough to contain plenty of soil. The garden pots should be one and a half to two feet deep and about two feet wide. Set flower bulbs, with at least six inches of soil above them, planting them early enough in the fall so that they can make root growth before soil freezes hard. In penthouse gardens in New York City, Dutch bulbs have been grown successfully in this way, but it is always a risk. It makes no difference whether garden pots are made of wood, concrete, or other material; it is the amount of soil they hold that counts.
Actually, it is not the freezing of the soil that injures flower bulbs (this occurs in open ground), but it is the pressure and counter pressure exerted by frost on the sides of containers, which are firm and do not give. As a result, flower bulbs are bruised and thrust out of the soil, their roots torn. Where there is no hard freeze, but sufficient cold weather, hardy flower bulbs can be grown successfully in garden containers of small size.
Here is a partial list of flower bulbs that thrive in container gardens. They will help you with your container garden design
Achimenes are warmth-loving trailing plants with neat leaves and tubular flowers in blue, lavender, red and white. Related to gloxinias and African violets, they are nice in hanging baskets and window boxes or in garden pots on tables, shelves, or wall brackets. Start the small tubers indoors and give plants a sheltered spot with protection from strong sun and wind. Achimenes, an old standby in the South, is worthy of more frequent planting.
Agapanthus or Blue Lily of the Nile is a fleshy-rooted evergreen plant, with strap leaves, often grown in tubs and urns on terraces and steps during the summer, when the tall blue spikes unfold. Culture is easy, but plants require a well-lighted, frost proof room or greenhouse in winter. This is an old-time favorite, often seen in the gardens of Europe. It is a perfect flower bulb for container gardening.
The Calla Lily is Showy, and outdoors in warmer regions, but a tender pot plant in the North. Most familiar is the white one with large, shiny, heart-shaped leaves. Start bulbs indoors in February or March in rich soil and, when weather settles, transfer to large gardening pots and take outdoors. Calla lilies do well in full sun or part shade, are heavy feeders and need much water. There is also a dainty yellow one with white-spotted leaves. Rest your flower bulbs after foliage ripens and grow again.
Colorful and free-flowering Dahlias provide bounteous cut blooms. Tall, large-flowering kinds can be grown only in large planters and boxes, but the dwarfs, even freer flowering, are excellent in small garden containers. Attaining one to two feet tall, they grow easily from tubers in average soil in sun or part shade. They may also be raised from seed sown indoors in February. If tubers are stored in peat or sand in a cool, frost proof place, they can be grown for years. Check bulbs during winter, and if shriveling, sprinkle lightly.
Gladiolus, the summer-flowering plant has spear like leaves and many hued spikes. Corms can be planted in garden containers outdoors after danger of frost is passed. Set them six inches apart and four to six inches deep. The best way to use these in container gardening is to planting a few every two to three weeks, giving you a succession of bloom in your container garden. Stake stems before flowers open. After the leaves turn brown, or there is a frost, lift corms, cut off foliage and dust with DDT to control the tiny sucking thrips. After dusting, store corms in a dry place at 45 to 55 degrees F for future planting.
Gloxinias, another Summer-flowering plant and tender with large, tubular blooms of red, pink, lavender, purple, or white, and broad velvety rosettes of leaves. Start tubers indoors and don’t take outside until weather is warm. Since the leaves are easily broken or injured by wind or rain, put plants in a sheltered spot. The low broad eaves of contemporary houses, with restricted sun, offer an appropriate setting for rows of pots or window boxes filled with gay gloxinias.
Now you have some great ideas for your container garden design. It’s time now to start planting your flower bulbs.
Happy Container Gardening!
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Posted on Mar 31, 2010 under dried foliage |
Planting a herbal plot that includes perfumed geraniums is not usual to container farming. Most gardeners think of fragrant geraniums as a flowery factory, not a herbal deposit but the species, called pelargonium, is a sage with many uses. This delightful herb has many different aromas and gorgeous insignia to delight your senses. The perfumed geranium is best worn in container farming for two reasons. One, you can direct the soil and wetness, and two you can create it within when hoarfrost is eminent. The fragrant geranium was found in Africa in the 1600′s and shipped to England where it became most current. The gardener of King Charles I grew a slightly fragrant geraniums in the regal greenhouse. The Victorians thought they were geraniums somewhat than a herbal yard but if you look at their asymmetrical grass you can see the difference between perfumed geraniums and ordinary geraniums. The perfumed geranium is honestly a herbal hide for all seasons. It grows and has a lovely fragrance throughout the give and summer and when the aloof winds of autumn threaten the resolute herbal works will gladly co-live inside with you. Nothing could be better when container farming includes perfumed geranium with their intense plants, lovely perfumed trees, and brawny characteristics for year around enjoyment of your senses. True to their name scented geraniums come in a multitude of fragrances. Seemly, the desired is the rose scented geranium but others are speedy popularity hastily. Some of the more strongly planted are the apple scented, peppermint scented, copse, like cedar or liniment, nutmeg and citronella (also know as the vampire buster.) You can stand an undivided container backyard with this one class of lodge and have a superb diversity. Their trees lonely will differ interestingly to give you a spectacular container backyard. The tiny soft foliage of the nutmeg scented geranium, or Lady Mary, to the large musk scented plants of the Lady Plymouth. The rose scented geraniums are fast popularity for kindly and are increasingly worn in mediation and for healing purposes. The place really releases a delicious rose perfume when rubbed against, or crushed. Just brush the foliage to issue their scent or make a restful rose geranium tea to help you relax. There are many cookery uses for the scented geranium to delight your savor buds. Chop up the foliage and mix with your other beloved herbs such as chives or chervil or sage to make interesting flavored butters or dips and spreads. A really skillful way to use the grass is to line a baking pan when making pies, puddings or cakes to divulge a fantastic spice to your desserts. Use them for desserts, syrups or custards for another unique aroma. You can even make flavored baby by layer dry, breezy foliage with baby. Let them sit a few living, eliminate the plants and stockpile the darling in an air compact container. This could be used in teas, baking produce, or as the honey shrubs. They are delightful in baths and infused in water to wash your fuzz. The scented geranium is a great as a space freshener or added to potpourri. Try adding some to your vacuum bag or put them in an engage bag and add them to your dryer for a new unmarked scent for your clothes. Scented geraniums are developed from cuttings bursting from the mother works. Cut three to four inches just above a sheet. Strip the lessen leaves off and place in a rooting form, such as a mix of sphagnum peat moss. Place your bitter in happy light and keep it moist. When roots have been established it time to place it in your container patch. Make certainly the soil is spongy and fast draining. When the scented geranium is indoors it is needed to nosh it once a week to guarantee full folio cyst. Pinching back the works not only encourages hairy increase but releases a delicious aroma into the air. Keep the soil evenly damp; do not over water them as this will kill them. They can come back from overly dry situations but not wet ones. Now it time to add this multi-talented plant to your container plot. Just one word of caution, once you get to know the scented geranium your herbal plot will never be lacking it.
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Posted on Mar 25, 2010 under dried foliage |
Through the years many plants were considered to be only greenhouse subjects rather then house plants. That, thankfully, has changed and many species can be considered as house plants to decorate your home. Here is a house plant guide to the basics of caring for your plants also known as container gardens. It is best to choose plants that have thick leathery foliage. The reason they can withstand heated rooms is that they have tough leaves and can withstand adverse conditions. This also cuts down on house plant care. It is wise however, to keep the foliage free of dust so as not to interfere with the plants pores.
It pays to get your house plants ready for indoor life. If it is possible buy your plants when you no longer need to heat your home. This way they will get plenty of fresh air to harden the developing foliage, giving it strength against a hot dry atmosphere of heated rooms. This is especially important for tropical house plants. If you buy a tropical plant, such as a begonia, keep it in a room that is warm and moist, like a bathroom. They thrive on moisture and because of the steam from showers tropical house plants will get the necessary humidity.
To keep house plants species hardy they must be in a cool a place as possible. An unheated room that does not fall below 45 degrees is ideal. If you have a very cold spell, bring the plants into a heated room but be sure to get them back to the cool atmosphere as soon as possible. If you have a very large house plant that is not easily moved cover it with material, like several layers of burlap, to shield it from the elements.
When it comes to house plant care, watering is usually the trickiest. The amount of water will depend on how fast the plant absorbs the moisture. Obviously, a house plant that is in active growth requires more water than a dormant one. A good rule of thumb for house plant care is that they will require more water during the growing months, April through October. All container gardens should be watered when relatively dry. Sufficient water should be given to the house plant to reach to the drainage hole. This is important because the feeding roots closest to the bottom need water to continue growth.
A good trick for house plant care is to tap the pots half way down with your knuckles. If there is a hollow sound the plant needs water. But, if you hear a dull sound there is still plenty of water. The exception here is if the soil has been compacted firmly into the pots, then you will always here a hollow sound. If possible use rain water for house plant care. If you cannot use rain water on your container gardens, you can use tap water. Be sure to inspect your house plants daily to see if they need moisture.
If the tips of your foliage turn a sickly yellow you are over watering the plant. Do not water it again until the soil is quite dry. Over watering will also cause a moss or algae to grow on the soil. This must be removed, then use a sharp stick to aerate the house plant.
Another task of house plant care is feeding the plant. Plants that have rooted well and are growing freely need the most feeding. This extra nourishment is especially needed from May to August. Flowering house plants benefit by feeding them as soon as there flower buds appear. There are many types of fertilizers, speak to the people at your garden center to find the right one for your house plants.
These are some tips on caring for house plants. Keep your house plants feed, watered and clean so that you will have years of enjoyment and beauty.
Happy Container Gardening!
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Posted on Mar 19, 2010 under dried flowers |
12th March is called Plant A Flower Day. Why this day is celebrated on 12th march, could not be found out by me. How we began the tradition is again unknown. At least I could not find any information on that. But whoever did has done a great service to mankind.
Why do I say so? Let me elaborate. Pick up a flower if you have one nearby, or imagine of a flower. Have you seen anything more beautiful in nature? Yes, butterflies come as close competitors in colors. But butterflies are insects, whereas flowers belong to the plant world. Look around any landscape. What do we expect to find? Trees, waterfalls, streams, rivers, mountains, fruits, rocks, stones, grass and such other natural objects that make a typical landscape. You can add snow and sand to this list for some regions. Now can any of these claim of beauty similar to that of flowers? Can anything compare with the softness, the shape and the fragrance of flowers? Nothing.
On a lighter note, can you imagine of anything other than a flower to gift to your sweetheart? Can you imagine presenting him/her a bowl of water on Valentines Day? Or make a bouquet of dry grass. Any rocks? No. Flowers score over everything. The heavenly fragrance of some flowers can intoxicate anyone. The softness can be matched only by an infants skin. Flowers are the diamonds of the plant world and can even beat diamonds in almost all qualities. Compare the cost of a flower and a diamond. You will surely choose the former.
I can keep on talking about flowers and their multiple uses. It seems that nature created flowers to please us. Plant a flowering bush or tree on every 12th March and enjoy watching it grow.
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Posted on Mar 11, 2010 under dried foliage |
All over the country, geraniums parade their red and scarlet, rose, pink, and sallow blooms with a gay abandon that few other plants can rival. In boxes on city fire escapes and rooftops, in pane boxes on suburban and country houses, in tubs and pots on terraces and patios , and in lynching baskets of the porches of summer cottages, they are beloved and respected plants It wants sun to enlarge; it tolerates shade, where it is mostly handled as a flora place. What it resents is too much dampness and a fertile diet. Kept too wet, the trees shot blonde; given a bodyguard soil, one high in nitrogen plants go to shrubbery and flower thinly. Even if you show no other plants, you could have a pied preserved backyard of unmarried and double zonal, expensive-leaved or variegated, perfumed-leaved, ivy and Lady or Martha Washington geraniums (also called show or interpret geraniums), not to declare a few oddities of cactus and climbing types. Obscurity characterized the zonal geranium circular markings on the rounded green trees. Double types dominate the trade and are existing by florists in the spiral for planting in gardens and period boxes. Variegated geraniums, with foliage that are steadily brilliantly tinted, are attractive even out of tinge. Set among green-leaved geraniums and other foliage plants, pots of the variegated plants add blush and sample. The trailing, ivy-leaved geraniums are among the most profuse peak when adult under approving conditions. They dislike shade and high dampness and flower best in climates with ardent living and cool nights, as in California. Lady Washington’s, considered the handsomest of geraniums, are not so cool to grow. Like the ivy-leaved, they wish cool nights and kindly, sunny time, preferring shelter from encircle and all-day sun. If you are a geranium gardener, you may want to spark your pot workshop collection with some cactus and climbing geraniums. They will give you fantastic and fascinating forms and flora and are certain to arouse expansion. Geraniums grow and look well in pots, boxes, and planters. They flourish in countless soil mixtures if drainage is good. For abundant bloom, however, supply an elite preparation, not high in nitrogen, or lavish foliage and few blooms will result. I have winner with good garden soil and a sprinkling of a 5-10-5 fertilizer and bone meal. During the upward season, plants react to a low-nitrogen fertilizer in liquid form. When potting, be generous with drainage things to cover free passage of water. As with any workshop, forever water with problem, since too much or not enough can be harmful. The best decide is to water when the exterior of the soil feels dry. Then immerse the soil well and do not water again until plants essential it. If soil is kept too wet, plants will bend golden; if too dry they fade and tinge. To swear even lodge progress, circle containers from time to time. Remove fair foliage and gray blossoms which are especially distracting on plants at doorways or any other key acne. If downpour rots and disfigures the axis florets of the heads, entice them off with your fingers, parting the unmarred surface florets and buds. If you want plants for next pounce, take two- to four-creep cuttings in August or early September. Look for mature stems (with foliage spaced close together) that solve simply like a crack bean. Woody swelling is hard to basis and moist tips lean to rot. Before planting allot out cuttings in a dubious place for numerous hours so foliage will fail extra humidity. When arranged to work, cut off the drop leaves, allowing but two or three to each sharp. Also appeal off the little wings on the stem, since they are tilting to rot. Dip stem tops in hydrated jade to avert decaying and then insert about halfway, in an absolute or large pot of genuine polish or a mixture of smooth and peat moss. With geraniums, rooting powders are scarcely basic. When cuttings expand edge-long roots, they are complete for spacing out in another boring or for discreet planting in 21/2-crawl pots. Fill with a mixture of three parts dirty loam and one part peat moss or leaf fashion. After planting, keep in the shade for the first few living, and make within before cold survive. When the separated cuttings have urbanized stanch rummage systems, change to 31/2- or 4-crawl pots. Use the same potting mixture as before, with bone meal added. Later as established plants begin to grow, feed periodically with a high phosphorous fertilizer, as 5-10-5 or 4-12-8. To keep plants wild and to advance branching, pinch while small, starting when they are three to four inches high. Provide sunny windows, and keep rotary pots to prevent lopsided swelling. Water regularly, but permit soil to dry out just a little between applications Plants may be wintered in cool cellars with little light. Remember only that the less light, the cooler the temperatures should be. This is because too much kindness and insufficient light root lanky evolution that undermines a healthful plant. Gardeners with cellars or sheds when temperatures continue above freezing, can coldness geraniums execution upside down from the ceiling. The lifeless-looking sticks, set out in pots or in the garden in friendly harden, will amaze you when they develop into glorious acme plants.
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Posted on Mar 04, 2010 under dried flowers |
In case you are just starting out gardening, or you have a number of years of gardening experience, there is every possibility that you may consider planting bulbs. Most seasoned gardeners always make it a point to grow bulbs due to their toughness, convenience, and vivid hues.
Bulbs are capable of unfailingly blossoming several times in very season without the need to replant them, and if you properly schedule and tenderly plant them, you can enjoy those gorgeous bulb hues from the end of winter to about June.
After the bulbs are planted, they require very little maintenance and are quite simply are placed in the garden area or in containers.
Then, what exactly are bulbs? These are plainly, a kind of a nursery meant for the plant seed or embryo; now, in this nursery, adequate food and shelter are made available to the plant embryo. The moment the bulb is planted in the soil, there is nothing much to do save for watering it regularly, observe it slowly growing, and appreciate the attractive hues on display by early February or March!
So, now we come to the issue of selecting the suitable kind of bulbs for your garden. In the first instance, as usual, you should consider the environment in which the plant is to grow. When the groundwork for that is completed, you need to reflect on the possible colors you prefer to flaunt in your garden and the right time you desire your garden to be in full bloom.
A majority of gardeners propose tulips since they occur in a kaleidoscopic range of hues, virtually spanning from black to white. Then there are daffodils, which are also an excellent selection, appearing in yellow hues or in intermingling shades of white and yellow.
Still another popular preference of the bulb gardening variety are crocuses, which occur in yellow, white, or purple shades. Of course, you should give free rein to your imagination and fashion bulb blends to produce a captivating display of brilliant colors.
Then again, if you prepare meticulously, you can possess a garden that blooms nearly all the time, by planting myriad bulb variants. Crocuses, tulips, winter aconite, snowdrops, and daffodils all bloom early in the spring season.
Grecian windflowers and Grape hyacinth tend to blossom in the middle of spring, while Persian buttercups and lilies tend to blossom in early to the middle of summer. Begonias, amaryllis, eucomis, dahlias, caladiums, and elephant ears all bloom in summer, even as meadow saffron blossoms in the fall. It is important to commit to memory that the bulbs that tend to bloom in spring should be carefully planted in autumn, while the ones that bloom in summer as well as autumn should be gently planted in spring.
After you have resolved the kind of bulbs you wish to grow, the time has now come to set off to the gardening outlet to pick up the bulbs. In the first instance, bulbs are also known as rhizomes, tubers, or corms, and hence if you come across these tags, you can safely take them without much ado. Always opt for the biggest and most compact bulbs that you can get hold of; gardening specialists will inform you that the larger bulbs bring forth larger blooms.
Moreover, squishy bulbs are generally not in good condition and tend to bloom feebly or will not produce any blooms at all. Positively pass up blooms that have scars or cracks, as this too, signifies sick plants, and you never should choose bulbs that already are growing roots; such bulbs, in all probability, will not blossom satisfactorily once planted in the soil.
By now, you have selected your bulbs, given them the once over, and carried them home. Then the next step is that in case you do not wish to plant them at once, ensure they are stored in a dry, cool place, not exposed to direct sunshine, until such time you are all set to plant them in the soil or grow them in containers. When you are all prepared to plant, begin to hollow out the ground to make holes, which are three times the bulbs’ diameter that you are about to plant.
There are quite a few gardeners, who favor a structured appearance and hence plant the bulbs in precise rows.
In case you fall into this category, you need to acquire a bulb planter, which is a cylindrical shaped implement with a grip that helps to extract small tufts of the earth in a systematic and consistent manner.
There are other bulb gardening enthusiasts, who fancy the unaffected, natural appearance and will in fact, put in a couple or more bulbs into a single hole, trying to create a ‘clumped’ look.
Whatever the impression you wish to create, prior to putting the bulbs in the holes, you should ensure that a little quantity of fertilizer is placed in the holes and a light layer of soil is showered over it. Then put the bulb inside the hole over the soil layer (it should not have any contact with the fertilizer as it may spoil) with the end up and the flat side against the soil.
Pack the holes with soil, tapping it downward firmly; there should not be any air pockets and the bulbs need to be held in position by the soil. The planting conditions with regard to bulbs should be the very best since bulbs are lasting add-ons for your garden.
Finally, you can revel in the visual work of art that you have fashioned! However, preserving this stunning visual requires some effort. One common method of ensuring your bulbs are healthy and are blooming is to de-head them. This process entails taking out wilted flowers to encourage plants to bring forth more flowers. Always, commit to memory, especially where bulbs are concerned, that leaves should never be taken out until they begin to become brown.
In conclusion, remember that in warmer climes, most of the bulbs can be left in the ground in winter and they will not spoil. On the other hand, in colder climes, before the winter sets in, the bulbs need to be taken out from the ground and kept in a cool and dry place.
In fact, there are a few tender bulbs, such as dahlias, that are unable to survive the winter season, even when planted in warmer climes, and therefore should be taken out. Yet again, brush up on the subject and be aware of the bulbs’ requirements that you select for your garden.
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