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.

Allen Wilson is a Vancouver gardening specialist. Email Allen Wilson at [email protected]. I would like to plant some bulbs in pots for bloom this winter. What special treatment is needed in order ...

Q. I’m still a true novice when it comes to gardening. I am thinking about trying to grow some spring blooming bulbs, but I am curious, can you grow them in pots? I have several pretty big ones, 16 ...

DENVER — Imagine pots of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths blooming in spring on your windowsill or patio. It's fairly easy. Spring-flowering bulbs grow beautifully in pots. Use plastic pots--gallon ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — 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 ...

Now through early December is an excellent time to plant spring-flowering bulbs in your landscape. That's right: To get the beautiful flowers these bulbs produce in your gardens, you must plant them ...

Plant out pot-grown trees, shrubs and climbers. Prune shrub, bush and climbing roses, Buddleia davidii, dogwoods with ...

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 ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include Lenten rose, peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. Daffodils ...