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Article: Putting your bulbs to bed. (spring-flowering bulbs)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- October 1, 1987
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PUTTING YOUR BULBS TO BED
As summer fades into autumn, the blooming gardens of the past months become just a memory. But now is the perfect time to prepare for the reemergence of those gardens. While the ground is still soft and the days are warm, home gardeners can plant flowering bulbs in anticipation of another colorful spring. Such spring-flowering bulbs as tulips, anemones, daffodils, hyacinths, and crocuses will fulfill any gardener's expectations.
Spring-flowering bulbs have delighted the imagination as far back as the time of the Pharaohs, who grew anemones and narcissus in their gardens. In the 1500s, tulips were introduced to western Europe ...