The lazy October gardener
on Oct 15, 2009 in Gardening autumn bulbs carrots freezers globe leaves mulch no doubt onion own garden parsnips roots soil storage place trees Still no frost on my part of the globe, although the leaves on the trees are becoming quite colourful, so there is no doubt that autumn is around the corner! My freezers is quite piling up with the harvest of this year, but luckily there are some laz...

Gardening in October
on Oct 12, 2009 in Gardening October is actually still quite an active month when it comes to gardening, so it’s quite a nuisance that I am having back pain. Never mind, putting on more cream makes me feel as hot as in summer. Anyway, I feel better than yesterday, so that&...

Hyacinth forcing
on Oct 8, 2009 in Hyacinth It’s now the ideal to prepare yourself from having some colors and flowers into your house in winter. All you have to do is pot up some of your favorite spring flowering bulbs. Then you store these pots in a cool, dark place, until new growth...

Picture of white tulips
on Oct 4, 2009 in FLOWERS PICTURES OF TULIPS Spring Flower Bulb Spring flowers Picture of white tulips Picture of white Tulips in Holland White spring bulb flowers garden If you love to create an impression of snow in your spring garden, you could try to only plant white spring bulbs. Below I listed some white tulip varieties...

Tulip centerpieces pictures
on Sep 30, 2009 in FLOWERS HOME & GARDEN PICTURES OF TULIPS The most easy way to make tulip centerpieces is arranging them in a long thin vase. Although you probably heard that you need to by flowers in odd numbers, for this kind of tulip centerpieces you have to buy even numbers! You put one tulip in the mi...

Tulip Joshi
on Sep 15, 2009 in Fun As usual every year around this time I am browsing the Internet in search of the newest tulip flowers varieties and then frantic call my florist if he has ever heard about these tulips, and if so if he can order the tulip bulbs for me. Why I do Googl...

Multi-Flowered Tulip
on Sep 9, 2009 in FLOWERS PICTURES OF TULIPS Shopping Spring Flower Bulb Tulip flowers It’s time to do your homework and start looking for new tulip bulbs. Some quite extra-ordinary tulips are the so called "multi-flowered-tulips" which actually change the color of their flowers during flowering! The 2 tulip bulbs I cou...

Black Tulips
on Sep 5, 2009 in FLOWERS PICTURES OF TULIPS Purple Tulips If you love black tulips as much as I do, you better start looking for black tulip bulbs now, as they are quite rare. The following 4 tulip varieties are quite close to black tulips: African Queen: Triumph tulip in dark glowing ruby-red; the base i...

Prepare yourself for the frost
on Sep 1, 2009 in Gardening You need to know the frost date of your area to plan ahead. Before global warming struck, in our region it was safe to say that the first night frost would start at October 1. This means that anything you want to saw or plant now needs: to be frost...

What do snails eat?
on Aug 30, 2009 in Gardening Well, according to this snail picture: the land snails or garden snails that have traveled to my garden seems to eat…. a lot! What do snails eat If you want to catch snails, it is good to know what they eat or rather what they drink: they seem...