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Article: BULB PRIMER.(HOMEGARDEN)(ARTFUL SHOPPER)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- September 29, 2001
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Byline: Linda Brazill
Last month I ordered almost 1,000 mostly spring-flowering bulbs. It sounds like an astounding number but many of them are species crocus and snowdrops which produce tiny flowers from small bulbs.
For best effect they need to be planted in groups - drifts, as the catalogs say. And that's hard to do unless you're starting with virtually nothing to plant around and under.
Luckily that's the situation I find myself in. This fall my husband will turn the front yard over to me. He'll be finished building stone walls, making bark paths and getting rid of all the grass. Where the grass once was, he'll put down an inch or two of ...