Each gift has been specially selected to contain one type of easy to
grow bulb plus everything the recipient needs to grow them successfully.
Today we're giving you the chance to get your hands on two easy to
grow bulb collections that will provide your garden with colour all through spring - all you have to do is pay postage!
They are easy to
grow bulbs that steal the show wherever they are planted -- big exotic blooms, amazing colors and wonderful fragrance.
Affectionately known as tommies, these are easy to
grow bulbs which self-seed and freely naturalise.
Carol: You'd be hard pressed to produce cut flowers all year but your best bet might be to
grow bulbs to come in to flower successionally, then bring the pots into the house when they're in flower, or just cut the blooms.
To increase the light input, place plants in your sunniest windows (normally those facing south) and additionally, use energy efficient florescent lights or
grow bulbs.
3 large bulbs for pounds 9.99 OFFER 2: ACIDANTHERA X 50 These lovely easy to
grow bulbs throw up elegant stems up to one metre high with bright green swordlike foliage and hold graceful, softly-scented, white flowers with purple throats.
You might think that after more than a century of development, it would be easier to
grow bulbs now than it was when the company first started, but that's not so, he says.
I wanted onions that were (1) good keepers, (2) would
grow bulbs of a reasonable size without too many thicknecks in a normal growing season, and (3) would grow and set viable seed the second year.
Among the new items are the Deluxe AeroGarden, featuring a technology that delivers twice the light with a new lamp hood, three deluxe
grow bulbs and a 24-hour light option; and the Master Gardener 1-Season kit, which allows consumers to plant and grow thyme, basil or wildflow ers.
An Austin, Texas-based horticulturist/landscape designer/garden writer not only reassures Southerners that they can
grow bulbs associated with colder climates, but also points out that warm- weather bulbs are part of a regional garden legacy.
The awkward thing is that you cannot
grow bulbs on the same site for a good few years - so maybe it'll be worth paying a few pence more for top quality bulbs this autumn.