One antidote to the months of cold weather coming our way soon is blooming flowers. You could just buy some whenever you're fed up with snow and dark. Or you could get some ready yourself via the ...

Winter can feel gray and gloomy, with bare trees and frozen lawns stretching as far as the eye can see. But what if your garden could burst with color even when the cold is at its harshest? By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ATU Images/Getty Images While you may associate flowering bulbs with spring, the work for getting these beauties to bloom actually ...

If the wait for bulbs to bloom in spring seems excruciatingly long, you can pot some up now and enjoy a floriferous winter indoors. Gardeners are constantly gaming the system, using fertilizers to ...

Prune evergreens and use cuttings for holiday decorations. Mulch strawberry plants after several periods of cold weather. Pot an amaryllis bulb for winter enjoyment. How do I force bulbs to bloom in ...

Even among other little brown blobs — inconspicuous detritus such as abandoned cocoons, say, or concretions of lint — the bulbs of species crocus look unremarkable. When planted in the soil — as ...

Now is the time to start planting your spring bulbs. Try crocus for some wonderful bursts of color in early spring. Mass plantings of colorful crocuses celebrate the start of spring. They sometimes ...