Article: Small, flowering bulbs add variety to gardens: Horticulture.

Byline: Annette Meyer-Heisdorffer

Oct. 8--Small, flowering bulbs add variety to the early spring garden. Some of them even bloom during the late winter. Like daffodils and tulips, they need to be planted in the fall. The generic term "bulb" is used to refer to a group of plants that have different food storage structures to support life until the plant's life cycle begins again. Different storage structures characterized by botanists are bulb, corm, tuber, tuberous root and rhizome. The scientific name of the following bulbs is included to make sure you find the plant I describe. Snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, has a little white, bell-shaped flower ...

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