When you're tired of snow and ice and itching to get back out into your garden, forcing bulbs indoors can help cure your spring fever in winter. If you head to your local garden center, florist, or ...

This is the time of year that as a gardener I get restless. Most of the holiday plants are wilted, withered or dead. There are stacks of seed and garden catalogs by the recliner, and yet I long for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter ...

One of the greatest benefits of indoor gardening is the enjoyment of plants blooming out-of-season. Take spring bulbs. By providing favorable conditions indoors, you can "trick" many bulbs into ...

One of the easiest forcing techniques for home gardeners is used on spring-flowering trees and shrubs in late winter. In late January or early February, cut branches from deciduous spring-flowering ...

Flower bulbs don’t have to be buried in the ground to be enjoyed in bloom. You can force them in water, any time of the year. Victorian glass blowers created clear or colorful glass-bulb vases just ...

Getting anything to bloom around Christmastime can be a real challenge. Sure, there are poinsettias and Christmas cacti, though my cactus apparently was confused and decided it wanted to be a ...

In the 1600s, when hyacinth bulbs were brought from Turkey to Europe, there was speculation that it was a new food. People thought the bulbs resembled a turnip, so they cut them in pieces and boiled ...

Do you know that you can plant bulbs today and enjoy blooms next month? It may seem far-fetched, but with a little planning, you can force bulbs to flower out of season and create long-lasting ...

Fall finds garden centers hawking bulbs for tulips, daffodils and other spring bloomers. You can plant these outdoors before cold weather comes, or bring them inside and engage in a little trickery ...