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Order daffodil and tulip bulbs from mail order suppliers for planting this autumn.
The new boards obviate the need for accurately positioned spotlights or coloured bulbs.
He interplants hakonechloa, fountain grass and eulalia grass with his bulbs.
Bulbs can also be interplanted in such a way that the summer perennials just coming into leaf will mask the dying foliage of the spring bulbs.
When the jungle was cleared out back and laid to turf I told the blokes to rotavate all the bulbs into the tilth and let them take their chances.
These bulbs don't like frequent replantings and can take their time flowering after division.
Lighting was provided by naked bulbs hanging from wires strung up on the cave walls, and fresh air by ventilation shafts unseen.
In the early days of electric lighting, fixtures intentionally flaunted naked bulbs so that no one could possibly mistake them for gas.
The following timetable will help plan a forcing schedule in order to have bulbs in flower at a given date.
There were beads hanging in all the doorways and coloured light bulbs in all the lamps and sockets.
Those who received potted lilies can plant the bulbs outside in an area with bright light or in morning sun and afternoon shade.
Autumn is the time to put in bulbs for early spring including snow-drops, daffodils, crocuses, lilies and bluebells.
Along with a scent, summer bulbs offer a refreshing variety of colors and textures to enrich the border and beds of any summer garden.
Over a three-day period, candles, oil lamps, paper lanterns, and electric bulbs are lit to show how angels lit Buddha's return from heaven.
All may be started from bulbs, or many may be purchased as bedding or container plants at garden centers.
For naturalistic plantings, lay bulbs out in informal masses with curved borders and asymmetrical shapes.
Lily bulbs are quite large and will need a good-sized pot for best results.
More than 52,000 bulbs decorate their detached houses among spacious lawns in Northwich Road.
In a series circuit with two or more bulbs, which bulb lights first when the circuit is closed?
Summer-flowering bulbs such as dahlias, begonias and anemones bring variety, texture, unique color and long flowering times to summer gardens.
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Of all the garden plants that can be naturalized, bulbs create the fewest problems.
Propagation is rarely from seed as the colonies of bulbs spread and divide up into offsets freely.
The plant is propagated by separating offsets from its large onion-like bulbs.
Despite their differing underground structures, corms, tuberous roots, and rhizomes are all referred to as bulbs.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs work best if they are left on for over 15 minutes each time they are turned on.
They provide the characteristic warm glow of incandescent light bulbs, making them suitable for any application in the house.
The platinum bulb worked, but platinum was far too expensive to use in commercial light bulbs.
Along with true bulbs, several types of flowers, sold as bulbs, grow from the underground stem growth of rhizomes, tubers, and corms.
These are the places to plant colorful tulips, daffodils and other spring bulbs now.
Remember that some bulbs such as tulips and hyacinths do not always come back strongly in subsequent years.
A small but very important amount of tungsten is also used to make the filament in incandescent light bulbs.
Avoid bulbs with spindly, pale stem growth, active root growth, missing tunic and surface mould or disease.
The bulbs are covered with a plastic screen that helps block out potentially harmful ultraviolet rays that can cause cataracts and skin problems.
Though summer may boast more blooms, the flower bulbs of spring hold a special place in our affections.
Americans buy one-third of their bulbs, based on value of sales, through mail-order catalogues.
Hyacinths are available wherever flower bulbs are sold, including garden centers, home centers, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues.
He has made a spectacle frame with solar batteries with two bulbs covered with heat shields at the bottom of the frame.
The artificial light cast by the flashlights and reporter bulbs lit the scene ahead, blotted out by the moving figures and crowd of people.
Mix grit in with heavy soil and sit the bulbs on a layer of grit to stop them rotting.
Fall is the season to plant trees, turf grasses and spring-blooming flower bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses.
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He was also very stingy with them and refused to give bulbs away or even to sell them.
For consumers who want higher lumens, manufacturers offer tactical lights utilizing Xenon or Halogen gas-filled bulbs with tungsten filaments.
Perennial weeds set fewer seeds, but sustain and propagate themselves other ways, with creeping stolons, rhizomes, bulbs or other plant parts.
The display included more than 300 bulbs, together with Father Christmas figures, snowmen, reindeers and a sledge.
There are many scented varieties among the more flagrantly fragrant bulbs traditionally known for fragrance, such as hyacinths.
In these zones, spring-flowering bulbs must be mulched during the winter due to the danger of frost damage.
For digital photography, SoLux bulbs are perfect, yielding accurate rendition of difficult-to-photograph minerals such as dioptase and azurite.
Oh, it's fine for her to waste food on a level I can only describe as sinful but God forbid we should be wasting light bulbs or toilet paper.
It snows onto a snowman and a Christmas tree while Santa flies overhead and the aforementioned bulbs twinkle merrily.
Bare bulbs were hanging from the ceiling casting an eerie light, revealing tiny flecks of dust filtering through the air.
Weeds were abundant and even underplanting with spring bulbs had been a failure.
Some of the young bulbs on the lower deck are still green and you have to be alert for green fly.
Check the quality, rejecting any soft or mushy bulbs or any that show signs of rot or mildew.
The former probably show more vegetative reproduction, by rhizomes, corms and bulbs.
Lachenalias in general are small fleshy bulbs with two upright, opposite leaves.
One way of hiding the leaves is to grow the bulbs near or through other plants that will provide cover or detract the eye.
Lily and tulip bulbs can go into the garden as can deciduous trees, climbers, shrubs and hedges, roses and fruit trees, bushes and canes.
As a result, you can grow herbs, greens, medicinals, bulbs, and flowers on one spiral.
In case of cold weather, it would be a good idea to apply a layer of mulch over the bulbs.
To enjoy these bulbs year after year, they must be dug up in fall and stored indoors over the winter.
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For small bulbs, make holes with a dibble and plant bulbs 3 to 5 inches apart.
Herbaceous borders are planted with a wide variety of hostas, pelargoniums, ferns, iris, dicentras and spring bulbs.
I have made a mental note to buy some bulbs of these next autumn and to plant them in pots for flowering in the greenhouse.
She cleans and plants bulbs and is bedazzled by the flowers months later, all the while talking excitedly about them.
Many people bend them over and slip a rubber band over them, or in the case of bulbs like Daffodils tie them with one of the long leaves.
To discourage voles or gophers, add a handful of sharp gravel to the planting hole or plant bulbs in wire or fabric baskets.
So, once you've chosen your shrubs with half an eye on the living room, and spent a week or two's rent on bulbs, what next?
Where bulbs are naturalized, avoid fertilizing in spring so the quick-growing grass plants don't overshadow the bulb leaves before dieback.
Together with gladioli, lilies and begonias, the dahlias are one of the most important and popular summer-flowering bulbs.
The key to all this is picturing in your mind the flower bed in the spring when the only thing popping out are the bulbs you have planted.
Harvest the bulbs when the tops fall over, and dry them off in the sun or a shed for at least a week before removing the tops.
When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
Among the miscellaneous bulbs are the mildly-scented grape hyacinth and dainty Iris reticulata.
Like these bulbs, the grape hyacinth, is also very affordable and grows well in any well-drained soil.
If planting one without a drainage hole, you'll need to be careful about overwatering while the bulbs are forming their roots.
Light boxes are made up of a set of fluorescent bulbs or tubes generally encased in small, portable devices of plastic or aluminum.
In addition to retrofitting lights, ASC recycles fluorescent bulbs, which contain mercury, keeping about 750 bulbs a year out of landfills.
There are wooden sunbeds floating round the island, chairs from the restaurants and glass smashed everywhere, bulbs from the lighting.
Her diary also contains numerous references to the bulbs, geraniums, hollyhocks, and dahlias that she planted, tended, and appreciated.
Exposing prints to direct sunshine, but also artificial light from bulbs is one of the worst and most frequent mistakes.
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You could pledge to change to energy-saving light bulbs or household appliances in your home.
When the bulbs come up in the spring and start blooming, you should clip off the blooms as they start to wither.
Bulbs are geophytes including flower-producing bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes with underground storage systems.
To our knowledge, humans are the only organism that routinely digs up, divides and replants tubers, bulbs and corms of flowers.
Now is the time to plan and plant flower bulbs for the holidays for both gifts and decorations.
Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs.
The problem with incandescent light bulbs is that the heat wastes a lot of electricity.
Instead of regular light bulbs, which shed a dull yellow glow across the room, Mr Newton decided to splash out on daylight spectrum lighting.
The bulbs shed white light, as opposed to the old-denture hue of plain old bulbs.
A rare survivor from the Victorian age, the gardens have been returned to their heyday and are full of spectacular spring bulbs.
Held together with large screws and lit by bare light bulbs, these cramped quarters conflate domestic spaces with torture chambers.
Mom kept ordering assistants back to the storage sheds until we had enough bulbs and tubers to fill two shopping baskets.
It used to light up a room better than a crystal chandelier that used thirty light bulbs.
The bulbs can remain in the same location year after year and thus act as perennial plants.
He has to research the history of the light bulb, the layout of the building, the different kinds of bulbs, etc.
Come evening, the whole city wore the look of a spectacular fairyland, with a million bulbs illuminating the streets and shopping areas.
There are two different types of fall blooming bulbs, colchicums and crocus.
It stands in wooded ground which contains a variety of shrubs, plants and bulbs.
Regular incandescent light bulbs produce light by heating a small filament inside the bulb.
It is the season to plant flowering bulbs such as tulips, narcissi, crocuses and hyacinths.
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Until the rose bushes are in bloom again, the earlier-flowering bulbs will provide a lively picture.
The ceiling lights were old yellow incandescent bulbs, and the monastery's little foyer smelled of wax, incense, and unwashed feet.
The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.
The 360 L.E.D. arrays and 20 yards of glowing semiconductors use the same energy as four 100-watt incandescent bulbs.
In lighting, for example, there are incandescent, compact fluorescent and LED bulbs.
Coarse, clean sand and small sifted cinders placed round the bulbs should ward off attacks.
Choose perennials and bulbs that are quick to form intricate root systems, such as chrysanthemums, violets, daffodils and creeping phlox.
The bulbs were sponsored by local business people and everyone is looking forward to Spring when the road sides should be a blaze of colour.
This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential for naturalizing or perennializing.
Coarse, clean sand and small sifted cinders placed round the bulbs will also ward off attacks.
They have many compact fluorescent light bulbs in their home, but she's not completely sold.
Basically, LEDs are just tiny light bulbs that fit easily into an electrical circuit.
In the garden the green spears of Spring bulbs, daffodils for the most part, are well through the soil.
Old water cisterns and a Victorian toilet spill over with a veritable mass of plants and bulbs.
Hidden beneath the dry husks of the bulbs you buy are next spring's embryonic flowers.
Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, and irises are universal symbols of spring.
The stage is clear and uncluttered, lined with a set of big black doors and decorated only with light bulbs swinging from the ceiling.
Some ground-covering plants are especially suited to underplanting with taller bulbs such as narcissi.
Because their roots run deep in good soil, cherries are fine trees to underplant with perennials or spring-flowering bulbs.
It is likely to be most convenient, and the general conditions there are most favorable to the bulbs at this stage of their existence.
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Compact fluorescent light bulbs are available at your local lighting store, many hardware and home supply stores.
Garden centres are supplied with spring flowering bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, narcissus, tulips and crocus, but let's not stop there.
Try bulbs that are prolific in winter months, such as tulips, narcissus, hyacinth, kalanchoe and cyclamen.
Other fun bulbs for easy forcing include colorful hyacinths, crocuses and narcissi.
Remove excess soil and separate individual bulbs, disturbing the roots as little as possible.
Separate the bulbs into individual cloves and space them every 10 cm in rows 30 cm apart.
Overlap Christmas tree boughs and evergreen prunings atop beds to protect newly planted and tender perennials and bulbs.
There is an electrical shop just across the road where I can get the motor, bulbs and wires and it wouldn't cost much.
Planted with care and planning, bulbs can keep a garden alive with color from the last snows of winter through the first frosts of fall.
In that case, plant new bulbs in another location, preferably among ground cover plants.
Plant the bulbs about once a month during the growing season for a summer-long supply.
If gophers, squirrels or other animal pests are common in your area, planting tasty bulbs, such as lilies, in open soil is a waste of time.
Flowering bulbs such as hyacinths, daffodils, crocuses, and tulips, along with hellebores, lungworts, and heathers carpet the ground beneath.
Stars popped into brilliance with cap-gun like cracks, making me think of exploding light bulbs.
Inverted fruit bushels shade the light bulbs that hang down from exposed ventilation ducts on the high ceiling.
The presumption that the glass envelopes of these bulbs function as cutoff filters to remove short wavelength radiation was unsubstantiated.
As you know from replacing light bulbs, there is a large, thin, frosted glass envelope in the familiar light bulb shape.
Freestanding bulbs, showing those spear-like buds or unopened flowers, can be set into water, potting soil or clean aquarium gravel.
The buds are already dormant within the bulbs and the difference in size will affect the size of the flower.
It is a good time to buy and plant conifers and evergreens, summer-flowering bulbs and dahlia tubers.
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A wide range of monocots produce bulbs of modified leaves which store food over the winter.
This species has sweet and palatable bulbs and also bears clusters of bulbils at the flower head.
Hardly moved in, he evinced not the slightest discomfort with rugless floors, shadeless bulbs, and an unseasonable chill.
Next spring, these cloves will sprout their leaves and start to make new bulbs.
After drying, cut off any remaining foliage and pack the bulbs in a few layers of clean vermiculite, peat moss or excelsior.
Keeping it in a frozen state is actually good because the bulbs remain dormant for a longer period of time.
A wide range of commodities ranging from fruits to light bulbs are sold by enterprising hawkers.
The bulbs are fairly inexpensive and often you can find other tulip varieties at bargain bulk-pack prices.
There were splashes of flash bulbs, and infernal heat, and the button eyes of Ethel Kennedy turned to cinders.
Incandescent and halogen light bulbs can fade colors if they are very close to the light source.
We also threw strip light bulbs into the mysterious bath which was quite spectacular.
When placing potted bulbs outdoors, remember that they do not like frost and that excess moisture can cause harm.
Whether the bulbs come in the mail, or from the local garden center, they usually come with instructions.
Repot spring-purchased bulbs into your own containers, choosing containers large enough to withstand the exposure of sudden cold snaps.
As he flicked the switch to light the brightly coloured bulbs, an enormous cheer went up from onlookers.
This is the definitive guide to growing bulbs as cut flowers or flowering potted plants.
Nigel also asks if these pests attack the roots of bulbs such as chionodoxa, muscari and fritillaria.
These include berries, especially huckleberries, fruits, nuts, bulbs, and tubers.
Spring brings more than half a million blooming bulbs, including daffodils, hyacinths, and tulips.
One trick I have learnt is to put some bulbs at the bottom of the container so they flower in spring.
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Pine nuts were particularly important toward the south and camas bulbs to the north.
As you're making the lassos, twist the cord and adjust the length of the loops so the bulbs face outward and are spaced unevenly.
After the flowers of spring bulbs fade, the remaining foliage is left to wilt and die back.
The bulbs are very bright, allowing the images that they project to be seen even in well-lit rooms.
When planting tulip or daffodil bulbs in a formal display it pays to make sure that the soil has been well composted and forked over beforehand.
As your bulbs finish flowing, don't cut them back, but continue to feed them with liquid fertiliser over the foliage.
Those adapted to it, namely the radially organized frondose Petalonamae, anchored in the mat with their basal bulbs.
He offers advice on crocus bulbs, liming the roses, putting coffee grounds on the chives.
Most of the bulbs we plant in our gardens are cultivated varieties, raised in nurseries in this country or in the Netherlands.
Arrange the bulbs carefully, spacing them closer than you would in the ground, but ensure they don't touch.
When planting bulbs in flower borders, mark where they are so you don't dig them up later by mistake.
Using a second-hand oil engine and a small dynamo, he lit up the family home with low-power bulbs.
Many people are confused about how and when to force bulbs and think it must be much more complicated than it looks.
Meanwhile, bulbs and seeds sprout, trees bud, and insects emerge and start consuming the tender foliage.
No matter what your climate, be sure to water planted bulbs throughout the winter.
When sold and planted in fall, bulbs are in a dormant state that makes them very easy to handle and ship.
Treating lily bulbs with cytokinin hormones can mean early flowers and more of them.
Many of their early wildflowers and spring-blooming bulbs go dormant by Memorial Day, so they shrug off the dry summers.
Not far from West Bank Park, local residents planted daffodil bulbs in the green surround of Holgate Windmill last year.
After 12 weeks of storage three of these bulbs were planted to determine the quality of the flowers.
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Voles have been known to travel tunnels developed by moles to gain access to flower bulbs and other plant roots.
The fresh weight of roots, bulbs and leaf bases was measured every week or every month.
Turning on a light switch applies a sudden surge to bulbs and transformers, shortening the life of both.
An electrician wired them for low-voltage bulbs and linked them on timers so they go on at dusk.
But two days before Friday's grand switch-on ceremony vandals removed bulbs from the display and smashed them in the street.
He also added that if someone was smashing thousands of bulbs into a garbage bin then mercury levels in that person's blood would go up.
The result is an hourglass shaped vessel, with both the upper and lower bulbs holding 2 oz.
Droppers with rubber bulbs should not be kept with the essential oil bottle as the highly concentrated oil can turn the rubber bulb into gum.
A skin biopsy from one of the patches found many empty hair bulbs without any inflammation or scarring.
Low growing annuals such as pansy. violas. alyssum and dwarf Virginian stock are a beautiful accompaniment to bulbs and practical as well.
Other species of bulbs are perfectly suited for the open, sunny habitat and dry, warm soil of rock gardens.
Apart from the American Indians, the Japanese make some use of lily bulbs in traditional dishes.
Some tribes boiled or steamed the large and fleshy roots of ballhead waterleaf with the bulbs of yellow glacier lily.
So do bulbs such as winter aconite, crocus, snowdrop, Iris reticulata, and Cyclamen coum.
To obtain information about the emergence of flower bud abortion, bulbs were planted parallel to the NMR measurements.
Add enough soil to fill the pot, firming the soil gently around the bulbs being careful not to bruise them.
For longest enjoyment, buy potted bulbs when the buds are formed but even fully emerged.
Buy potted bulbs when the stems are short and the buds are formed but not open.
Now is the time to plant those hyacinth and tulip bulbs that you have had chilling in the crisper of the refrigerator.
Some people keep their bulbs in the refrigerator crisper drawer, taking care to avoid storing them with ripening fruit.
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To chill bulbs in the refrigerator, just store them in a mesh or paper bag in the crisper section until they're ready to be forced.
It helped me remember things like where my bulbs were, how many hostas I'd planted and which varieties of crocosmias went where.
Are the crown imperials just like the other spring bulbs where they need to die naturally before cutting to the ground?
Once the bulbs have firmly rooted, frost is tolerated quite well and an extra cover is not needed.
Choose a dry day for planting the bulbs and avoid putting them into frosted or water-logged soil.
Check stored bulbs and corms for frost damage, fungal disease and attacks by rodents.
Fertilizing bulbs too close to flowering time, when the bulbs can't metabolize the food, only encourages fusarium and other nasty things.
This holiday season, LEDs are gaining in popularity as bulbs for Christmas lights.
Container gardens are also perfect for perennials, annuals, and summer bulbs such as lilies or dahlias.
Cold-hardy bulbs that need pre-cooling in warm winter regions must be treated as annuals and new bulbs must be planted the following fall.
Another option is to buy summer bulbs ready-grown in pots at the garden center.
Shallots grow similarly to garlic in bulbs with pods covered in reddish brown skin.
Lift the clumps carefully and prise the bulbs apart causing as little damage to the roots as possible.
Quearney and I are in agreement that bulbs seem to be ideally suited to an Irish climate.
The nice thing about forcing Amaryllis bulbs into flower inside the home is that it is so simple to do.
After you enjoy your forced bulbs one year, plant them into your garden to bloom the following year.
The recycler also reclaims the glass and metal found in the thousands of burned-out bulbs the refinery replaces each year.
In the field, bulbs sprout after the first rains in the autumn, and plants may flower by the end of winter.
After a number of years it may become necessary to lift crowded plantings of bulbs in order to spread them out and revitalize the soil.
I've been told that lifting the bulbs, storing them for the summer and replanting them in the fall will improve their performance.
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Tender bulbs can be either treated as annuals and composted or tossed out, or they can be lifted and stored.
These are among the small number of bulbs that prefer to be lifted and planted when they are green.
If there are too many outside layers of skin on the garlic bulbs, pull them off first.
It includes nonsense about not raking up lawn clippings, using fluorescent light bulbs and getting your old clunker of a car tuned more often.
Nearly all the lighting uses efficient fluorescent bulbs, and walls are insulated and windows double-glazed.
Plant amaryllis bulbs in containers early this month for Thanksgiving bloom or in late October for Christmas bloom.
For amaryllis, allow the bulbs to dry out from mid-August through mid-November, then water and feed to promote bloom.
Avoid fertilizing the annuals planted in the same bed until the bulbs have died back.
You can camouflage the bulb foliage by carefully planting summer annuals around the bulbs once all danger of frost is past.
The company used to spend four hours a week checking each one and replacing burned-out light bulbs.
One of the things many mail-order retailers offer is a selection of bulbs that aren't available everywhere.
It has been isolated from soils in desert areas, grassland or cultivated soils, cacti, onion, and garlic bulbs.
The daffodils seem to have gone over very quickly whilst spring bulbs like bluebells and wood anemones are rushing into flower.
This simple pasta dish combines pork sausages with fresh fennel bulbs in a soft, subtly anise-flavoured sauce for spaghetti.
Mitochondria are known as the power pack of cells, energizing them like batteries do flashlight bulbs.
We buy the bulbs in the fall, refrigerate them for six to eight weeks, then plant them after Christmas.
Put the tulip bulbs in a paper bag and refrigerate it for 6 to 8 weeks, but keep them away from the fruit.
If you must wait a few days, keep the bulbs moist and store them in your refrigerator.
Squirrels and other small creatures won't eat daffodils or other narcissi bulbs.
The first successful light bulbs marketed by Edison in the 1880s produced so much heat that they burnt out very rapidly.
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Subsequently, the forcers are optimistic about this season and have bought a substantial number of bulbs.
You must also leave room in front or behind the bulbs for annuals that you will plant when the daffodils are no longer blooming.
Instead of replacing high-wattage incandescent lamps with compact fluorescents, for example, one ESCO installed lower-wattage incandescent bulbs.
Plant Madonna lilies in full sun, rich cool and well-drained soil, but barely cover the bulbs.
They planted a spring flowering cherry tree, two buddleia bushes and a laurel bush, along with daffodil bulbs.
Store bulbs and tubers of begonias, caladiums, cannas, dahlias, and gladioli in a cool, dry place until March, when they can be started indoors.
If they are still not wilted when it's time to plant my annual flowers, I just plant the annuals in between the bulbs.
Clonal progeny may be produced by stolons, runners, rhizomes, tubers, buds on bulbs, corms and roots, layering of stems, and agamospermous seed.
Replace incandescent light bulbs with fluorescents, which last longer and use less energy.
The layout is symmetrical and orderly, which contrasts with the cottagey jumble of perennials and bulbs within the four rectangular beds.
Dig up and store tender bulbs from your summer garden, and cut back the worn-out perennials and biennials.
I supplement them with annuals, biennials, vines, bulbs, and a few flowering shrubs.
Groups of bulbs such as daffodils that have become overcrowded and have stopped flowering can be dug up and split whilst in leaf.
Those burgeoning sprouts on the gnarly bulbs piled in bins at a garden store can produce five or six flowers, each as big as your hand.
After frost kills their foliage, dig up callas, cannas, dahlias, tuberous begonias, and other tender bulbs.
I set out bulbs like daffodils and camas, which have naturalized with gusto.
Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
There were little Japanese lanterns hanging everywhere, with compact fluorescent bulbs.
Flowering bulbs can be transplanted, if done carefully, into decorative containers.
For example, bulbs like crocuses and daffodils, which are good at naturalizing, generally do well planted out after forcing.
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If the bulbs have segmented into cloves which can be separated, it is time to harvest.
Plant the last of the bulbs, like amaryllis, anemones, callas and ranunculus.
Another way to prevent global warming is by replacing the candescent bulbs in homes with compact fluorescent lamps.
Free low-energy bulbs will be handed out today in the Mill Gate centre in Bury.
One of the most unusual-looking fall-planted bulbs is the Grecian windflower.
When it comes to planting up a window box or tub, select good-quality large bulbs because the blooms are seen at close quarters.
I've grown herbs in a window box and I would like to transplant them into the garden and plant up the window box with some bulbs.
Rather than spend their time hanging around on street corners, they can be found scouring their estates for litter, clearing up play areas and planting bulbs.
The incandescent bulbs, silvered on the tops to diffuse their light in a soft spread over the wall, function as punctuation points and visual anchors.
She enjoys planting the bulbs and watching the lilies grow and bud.
Try ornamental kale and cabbage, Chinese cabbage, crinkle-leaf parsley, spinach, snapdragon and dianthus underplanted with spring-flowering bulbs.
No re-test fee will apply for minor defects such as faulty light bulbs.
That way, the roots of the bulbs will continue to grow after you move them and you will be able to see them flowering in their new home within days of planting them out.
Trim the fennel bulbs, cut lengthwise in half, and cut out most of the core.
While few perennials are doing anything significant when the hellebores bloom in late winter and early spring, flower combinations can be easily made with some early bulbs.
Recalling the artificiality of Armistice Day lapel poppies, the familiar carnation hovers on a collage of basketballs, light bulbs, and peace signs.
A layer of spring flowering bulbs will give another season of interest just before the plants are replaced once again with summer bedding next year.
Unplug appliances and lamps, and remove light bulbs from their sockets.
They also steal tulip and crocus bulbs from newly planted beds, dig holes in gardens to get at seeds and bury nuts, and gobble seed from bird feeders.
Directly beneath the hanging basket is a large, frost-proof terracotta pot permanently planted with hostas, spring bulbs such as miniature daffodils and grape hyacinth.
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Plant smaller bulbs such as crocus, anemones and ranunculus.
Regulars are drawn to the minimalist style and trendy DJ music and we particularly liked the groovy light bulbs that give the bar counter a glorious luminous glow.
Figures 1-5 show measurements obtained from unshaded, uncovered bulbs.
In due time a trial was made of crown imperials, and we obtained a collection of about a dozen sorts, of which we potted in the autumn about twenty bulbs of each.
I suggest you ask the people in charge of changing the light bulbs.
In any case, burgess likes to rail against these pushy liberals and their tricky, communistic light bulbs.
We placed a sizable order and received them recently beautifully packed and labelled with an instruction sheet for planting and manuring the bulbs.
Species propagated from bulbs, such as hyacinths, daffodils, snowdrops, bluebells and irises, often require cold winter temperatures to stimulate root development.
Among its treasures are antique burners, balances, a wooden fume hood and a voltage regulator fitted with antiquated light bulbs to monitor current.
Finally, top up decorative mulches, as they will help to suppress unseasonal weed growth and provide insulation for tender bulbs and plant crowns against hard frosts.
Check stored bulbs and corms for fungal diseases and damage by rodents.
In the old days of fame, matinee-idol actors and pin-up picture actresses may have been dim bulbs.
Nevertheless, in total, they still found that emissions dropped using alternative light bulbs.
The bulbs can be planted early, which gives them longer to fatten up.
After some heavy rains last spring, my grape hyacinth bulbs, which have been in the ground for a number of years, started popping out of the ground.
It was great to see old friends and work without bothering about whether the light bulbs need changing or the bins need taking out or whose turn it is to hoover the gallery.
The bulbs spread thanks to the fluctuating stream that carries and deposits them along the length of the wood, and by producing offsets or bulblets.
If the winters are harsh, then cover the bulbs with straw or leaves.
The first place to start when you're planning a spring bulb garden is your local garden center or other establishment that has spring-flowering bulbs for sale.
Although they have their favourite plants, they will eat almost anything that's not too tough and leathery including leaves, stems, bulbs, root vegetables, even flowers.

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How to use bulbs in a sentence

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