The
iris collection is mostly a result of gifts
from Larry Doucette, former President of
the Historical Iris Preservation Society
(HIPS). We have been collecting irises for
about 22 years now. There is one main
iris border, and rest are tucked into
other perennial borders. Some
Siberian and Louisiana species are scattered
around the other perennial beds. In 2006
I donated over a thousand rhizomes to the
Madison Iris Society for their annual fund-raising
sale.
Each entry includes hybridizer, year introduced and
categorization.
TB - Tall Bearded (over 27")
MTB - Miniature Tall Bearded (16" - 25", bloom with IBs
and TBs)
BB - Border Bearded (16" - 27", bloom with TBs)
IB - Intermediate Bearded (16" - 27", bloom between SDBs
and TBs)
SDB - Standard Dwarf Bearded (8" - 15", bloom one month
before TBs)
Mar 11, ranunculus
Ranunculus or Persianbuttercup is an interesting little bulb. You
can see in the picture what this bulb looks like and the most important
tip is before planting, try soaking the corms
Mar 11, Daffodil Maintenance
Daffodil maintenance is pretty straightforward and not something to get concerned or obsessed about.
To begin with – get
Mar 11, ornithogalum umbellatum as weed
Is there any way known to man to get rid of this pest? The more I dig them out, the more I get. Doug says vigilance - total and constant vigilance. :-)
Mar 11, trimming indoor tulips for more blooms
I have a pot of tulips that i bought from the store. the blooms have withered, and ive been told to trim them to the bulb and they will grow more blooms.
Mar 8, Elephant Ear bulb rot
My elephant ears have all rotted quite a bit on the bulbs. It is too early to plant them outside. How do I save what is left of the bulbs? Doug says
Mar 2, Trumpet Daffodils
Trumpet Daffodils - growing them is easy. They are very hardy bulbs that no pest eats (they taste really, really bad)...
Mar 2, sowing daffodil seed
My question is about sowing
daffodil seed, I've been working in my daffodils again and trimming
Mar 2, King Alfred Daffodils
King Alfred Daffodils: Good news / bad news. If you’ve planted this daffodil in the last few years...
Mar 2, forcing daffodil Bulbs
Forcing daffodil bulbs means – like
other spring blooming bulbs – that you have to prechill them to allow
them to set flower buds
Mar 2, Daffodil Transplanting
Daffodil transplanting is one of those things we all want to do whenever the darn bulbs get too overcrowded or just happen to have become...
Mar 2, Daffodil Seed
Daffodil seed isn’t all that rare and it isn’t all that hard to start. Here’s how.
Mar 2, Daffodil Planting
Daffodil planting is as simple as putting the bulb in the ground. The trick (if there is one) is where to plant...
Mar 2, Daffodil pictures
This video will show you a series of daffodil
pictures and expalin the different classes or kinds of daffodil flowers
that you can grow in your your garden.
Mar 2, Daffodil Garden
I thought you might this picture of my daffodil garden of interest. (it only shows about half the garden length) It was originally planted in fall of 2006 with approximately 125 daffodil bulbs. I note that each bulb only threw one bloom in the first year in this picture. In future years, the bulbs will get stronger and will throw multiple stems
Mar 2, Daffodil Care
Daffodil care is a pretty simple gardening thing as there are few pests that bother this plant. Given it is poisonous...
Mar 2, Daffodil Buds Die
Why do my daffodils buds die? They come up normally with a wonderful bud and then fail to open and die? I live along Lake Michigan in Door County, Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin.
Mar 2, Organic Flower Bulbs
Growing organic flower bulbs is really pretty easy.
The key is to use copious amounts of compost every fall (as much as you can put on your garden
Mar 2, Ornithogalum Chesapeake Snowflake
To brighten up our home I've bought a plant - the Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum Chesapeake Snowflake), which produced fantastic...
Mar 2, Galtonia Candicans
Galtonia candicans is a South African native that likes a warm, well-drained soil. I’ve grown this more or less successfully...
Mar 2, ornithogalum
Ornithogalum is a bulb with several distinct reputations. In one corner are the bulb growers who tell us that...
Mar 2, Scilla
Scilla is a large genus of bulbs in the lily family and there are more than 100 individual species. Not that you’ll...
Mar 2, easter lilies
What am I supposed to do with my Easter lilies once they have finished blooming indoors?. Can they go...
Mar 2, How to Force Flower Bulbs
There are several reasons to store bulbs so you can force flower bulbs. You just dug up the summer bulbs and want to store them...
Mar 2, controlling squirrels
Controlling squirrels
in the flower bulb garden is a major pain in the anatomy and here are a
few things that work
Mar 2, Bulb Thrips
There are several different bulb Thrips species that bother our flower garden bulbs but luckily for most of us, a well fed...
Mar 2, Double Early Tulips
Double early tulips are the best of the doubles.They tend to bloom early in your tulip season but they have relatively short stems (10 to 12 inches) so they are not as susceptible to bad weather as later flowering doubles.
Mar 2, Ugly tulips
I have ugly tulips and I couldn't find in your many articles the answer to the following: I live in NS and my tulips were nipped by frost this spring. Now they are ugly. Can they be dug up now (June 3) and laid in a sunny area until the follage that didn't get hit, turns brown? Do I cut off the sad blooms?
Mar 2, Agapanthus
Agapanthus or African Lily is a South African member of the lily family and while it can become quite weedy in the South, in more northerly gardens, it is a choice bulb. The name comes from the Greek ‘agape’ meaning love and ‘anthos’ flower. The early explorers to South Africa brought back this bulb to Europe in the seventeenth century (1679 actually)
Mar 2, Iris
Growing iris in the bulb garden - some tricks and pics...
Mar 2, Oxalis
Oxalis bulbs are fun things to grow and these particular ones are considered not garden hardy north of zone 7...
Feb 24, spring bulb planting
I have 2000 bulbs that were not able to get into the ground last fall. I NEED to get blooms on them for spring, they have been in a cool place. If I
Feb 15, lily flower bulbs
You’re not likely looking for a history of lily flower bulbs even though they do go back a long time in recorded history and have played a role in events as diverse as religion and wars. You likely just want to know what kinds of lilies there are and how to grow these beauties.
Feb 8, Bicolor Tulips
Here’s a list of bicolor tulips or two color tulips that may be of assistance in choosing your bulbs for the coming year. Print it out...
Feb 8, Achimenes
Achimenes is a fairly easy bulb to grow (even if it is a small one). Sometimes called “hot water plant” or “widow’s tears” it originally came to us from Central South America.
Feb 8, Growing Achimenes Indoors
Growing Achimenes in containers is a perfect way to enjoy this very tender bulb for northern gardeners...
Feb 8, Tulip History
Tulip history is really a tale of empire building and while a short web page can never do this kind of sweeping history full justice, here are the bones of the stor
Feb 8, Allium
Allium or ornamental onions are fantastic spring blooming bulbs that more and more savvy gardeners are tucking into their gardens. What’s not to like about these cheerful bloomers? They are bone hardy if grown in well drained soil (sorry you clay garden folks – this is not your plant) and given a shovel of compost in the spring. They bloom regularly and if you control the early slugs, you are not likely to see any problems with this plant. And you have over 500 varieties to choose from – what could be better?
Feb 8, gardening tips
You're looking to ask a gardening question or get
some gardening tips. And I'm really glad you've chosen my sites to do
this.
There are really 3 options to this process
Feb 8, Growing Tigridia
Growing Tigridia or Tiger Flower successfully means understanding its native spot and a few simple rules. It is a...
Feb 8, Growing Freesia
Freesia are frost-tender bulbs that are normally grown in greenhouses for the cut flower trade. Their delicious sweet...
Feb 8, tulip seed
So you want to know what to do with tulip seed? Your tulip has developed a swelling seed pod and you’re curious about
what this means for your garden
Feb 8, daffodils
This is the main page for information about
daffodils - the planting, growing, collecting, propagation
and just about anything else you can think of.
Feb 4, Tulips
Tulips rank as the most popular bulb in the world if you go by the number grown and sold every year. (billions actually) And they do put on quite a show! It seems that while these sweethearts are in bloom, everybody wants to have them.
