Tropical summer bulbs can also be used in beds, borders and hanging basket. They tend to be more expensive than other annuals ...

Q. This year, I ordered quite a few tropical summer-blooming bulbs. The instructions indicate I can either plant them outside in late May or start them indoors now. What do you advise?

Moving a tropical container plant indoors for the winter ... you can still plant spring-flowering bulbs like leucojum, Ipheion, anemones, narcissus, zephyranthes, ranunculus, ornithogalum ...

Other types of spring flowering bulbs do not need to be refrigerated and can be planted anytime now through early December. Gardeners often place their container tropical plants outside for the ...

Discovered in the Andes mountains in the early 1800s, these gorgeous tropical bulbs are a snap to grow and the flowers can last 10 days or more. Research shows the blossoms may last even longer ...

It’s downright steamy outside. Mother Nature has replaced the cool breezes and dewy mornings of early summer with blazing sun and a persistent humidity that seems to leave everyone with a ...

It is a feature of temperate zones and also the tropical zones which have ... Today I want to talk to you about two plants which grow from bulbs, and which are found in what one might term the ...

Many bulbs can be planted year-round in Florida, especially if they are growing in pots. Summer bloomers and tropical bulbs are best planted in the spring, to protect tender new growth from frosts ...

Tropical plants will thrive in Michigan gardens ... Is it worth the time and effort to dig up tender bulbs, tubers, rhizomes and corms so they can be used again the following season?

She saw a range of tropical plants — red-leaved bananas ... Ms. Willburn dries some, and each fall harvests maybe a dozen bulbs — the whiter area at the base — trimming them to about 12 ...