Have you ever wondered whether there's a difference between bulbs, rhizomes, and corms? After all, they're all planted in the soil and can grow the most amazing flowers! Essentially, these are ...

Freesias are stars in the vase, offering a beautiful fragrance and colourful cut flowers. You can grow them yourself, too — but first, you'll need to know when to plant freesias. Learning how to grow ...

Plant the right bulb (or its close cousin, the corm) and success is almost guaranteed. The beginnings of spring’s flowers and leaves are folded up inside these compact packages. Plant them at the ...

This week’s work in our garden includes digging up and preparing gladiolus bulbs for winter storage. Gladiolus, or glads for short, cannot survive in the ground though the winter in our area. Even ...

Q. I’ve begun my winter cleanup, and I dug up some gladiolus corms that I planted a couple of years ago so I could spread them around. I was surprised to discover that the corms, including lots of ...

Self-denial isn’t in my nature, especially when it comes to plants. Earlier this week, when I made a quick trip to a DIY store for a paint roller, all appreciation of prudence and economy vanished at ...

November is the perfect time to plant bulbs for spring flowers. This year, though, instead of planning to tiptoe through the tulips in April, why not go native and traipse through the Triteleia, ...

It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure. Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses. Each ...

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Today I will explore the wonderful world of corms. Along with bulbs, tubers, and rhizomes, corms constitute the quartet of underground storage structures that send up their silky blooms once a year — ...

The results from a workshop held for members of the Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club this spring planting caladium corms were fairly significant. Some members had even taken their potted plants to ...

Although we haven’t had a killing frost so far, you should be preparing to winter-store those beautiful tender perennials — the cannas, the dahlias, the gladioli and others. Look for a cool storage ...