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Article: GARDENING : SUMMER-FLOWERING BULBS RETURN YEAR AFTER YEAR.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 22, 1999
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Byline: Joshua Siskin
As spring comes to a close, bulbs are probably the last thing on a gardener's mind. Bulbs are for planting in fall so that you can look at their flowers in spring, but forget about them as summer nears - or so the conventional wisdom has it. Yet there are many bulbs, or bulblike plants, that can be planted now and will continue to flower for several months, if not throughout the year.
In Los Angeles, summer-flowering bulbs have a distinct advantage over spring flowering bulbs; nearly all summer bloomers come back year after year whereas spring bloomers - including tulip, hyacinth, Dutch iris, and most daffodils - flower for one or ...