It may seem premature to be thinking about next spring already, but fall is the time to buy and plant tulips so you’ll have tremendous color to begin your next gardening season. Knowing what to expect from them, how to plant, and how to protect from wildlife will help you to have the best spring [...]
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Spring Tulip
November 16th, 2011 
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Posted in Fall flowers, Garden flowers, Tulip 
Tags: Darwin types, flowering one year, plant tulips, planting tulips, tulips for spring 
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October 6th, 2010 admin If you think tulips are basically all the same, prepare to be tempted by all colors and flower shapes in heights from 6 inches to 3 feet tall. Planting a diversity of tulips from the hundreds available among 15 types can give you a long period of blooms and some quite striking flowers. The oldest [...]
Dutch Bulb Industry
September 17th, 2010 admin To understand the origins of the Dutch bulb industry, you need to know about Carolus Clusius. And you need to know about his friend, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq. Busbecq, a keen gardener, was the ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I to the Ottoman Empire (now roughly Turkey) in the mid-1500s. Traveling to Constantinople [...]
