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Add Hours to Your Flowers

Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor

Have you ever thought about buying flowers, such as for Valentine’s Day or other special occasions, but don’t because they last so short a time?  Perhaps the problem is how you treat them.  Proper care and handling of roses, daffodils, chrysanthemums, and other cut flowers can add hours

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Spring-Flowering Bulbs

Flowering bulbs like daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and crocus are some of the earliest flowers to appear in gardens each year, some starting to bloom as early as January. Many will bloom and multiply for years with minimal care, while others are best planted for one season’s show of color in our hot climate.

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Spring Flower Gardening

By Linfa Jenkinson

Spring is the time when nature and your garden awakes and comes alive after the long winter. That first spring flower or that first green leave is the sign that winter in coming to an end and that a new growing season has arrived.

Spring and Flower gardening is

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Forcing Bulbs Indoors

Making a plant flower at a predetermined time or under artificially imposed conditions is called forcing. Hardy bulbs are particularly suited for forcing indoors and offer a succession of color throughout the winter and spring months.

The most common hardy bulbs for forcing are crocuses (Crocus species), daffodils (Narcissus species), hyacinths (Hyacinthus species)

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What’s Blooming in May

Week 1: Early Rhododendrons Azaleas Flowering Dogwoods Crabapples Late-Flowering Cherries Japanese-Quince Asian Magnolia Woodland Wildflowers Tree Peonies Lilacs Dove-Tree Species Roses Spring-Blooming CamelliasWeek 2: Late Azaleas Rhododendrons Sweet Bay Tree Peonies Tulip-Tree Black Locust Herbaceous Peonies Woodland Wildflowers Herbs Old Garden Roses Lilacs

Week 3: Late Azaleas Rhododendrons Mountain-Laurels Southern Magnolias Sweet Bay

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What’s Blooming in March

Week 2: Early bulbs Winter-hazel Wintersweet Sweet-box Cornelian-cherriesWeek 3: Japanese-andromeda Winter jasmine Pussy willows

Week 4: Daffodils Woodland wildflowers Flowering cherries

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