If you want your garden containers to be filled with colorful flowers in spring, now's the time to get your bulbs planted to make sure they're ready to bloom once our gardens thaw out after winter.

While you may associate bulbs with flower beds, these plants do well in containers as well. Providing season-long color, texture, and height, flower bulbs planted in containers offer an easy way to ...

As the gardening season winds down, consider preparing a pleasant spring surprise for yourself. Fall is the perfect time to create a container garden of spring bulbs that you can enjoy indoors before ...

Fall is an exceptionally busy time for us gardeners, as we work hard to tick off all our planting tasks before the coldest weather arrives. If you've found yourself pushed for time this season, ...

Wheee! Next spring comes alive when you plant selected spring-blooming bulbs in containers now. It’s great fun and even easy — no weeds, no fuss and flowers thrive with almost no care. Crocuses, ...

Even if you’ve got a beautifully designed garden, there are plenty of reasons to add plants in containers to your home. You can decorate a front porch or backyard patio with boxes or pots of flowers.

Bulbs bursting with color are one of the best ways to light up an outdoor space, long before most perennials, trees and shrubs have begun to grow. Planting spring bulbs should result in a gorgeous ...

‘Bulb lasagna’ is the fall gardening trend that everyone is talking about. And it’s got me excited as it combines my two great loves — gardening and Italian food — what a combination! However, there’s ...

Many longtime gardeners consider canna lilies the workhorse of the flower garden. That’s because they are available in such a wide range of flower colors, sizes and foliage color. Canna lilies — or ...

Dahlias -- here, the 'Amante' -- are easy to grow, but very frost-sensitive. and crocuses behind us and the daffodils and tulips coming on, it's worth noting that all of these spring favorites (and ...

You may think the tall strong canna stems are reminiscent of a ginger lily — and are often called canna lilies — but they actually do not belong to the lily family at all. Canna lilies can reach 8 to ...

For those who are looking for insightful tips on when and where they should be planting spring bulbs, Alan Titchmarsh has posted a video on his YouTube channel detailing exactly where to position them ...