Planting bulbs is an affordable and fairly reliable way of creating lavish flowerbeds, but planting more than a handful without the right tools is difficult and time consuming. Using a bulb planter is ...

PLANTING bulbs can be back-breaking work. A trusty trowel and willing helper makes the job easier, but a bulb planter can make all the difference. There are narrow trowels with gradation marks to ...

When gardeners think spring flower bulbs, they tend to picture a band of tulips lined up along the front of a house. But tulips are far from the only spring bulb, and that familiar setting is far from ...

I could never get the hang of a bulb planter. There are two in the tool barrel in the garage — a hand-held planter and the step-on kind — that haven’t been used for years. Basically, you push the ...

Spring-blooming bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths are garden oddities because they have to go in the ground dormant the fall before in order for them to bloom the following spring. That’s ...

Planting in January means you may have to wait a little longer to see your plants flower, but you should still be able to ...