Are you ready for a little indoor color this winter? Forcing flower bulbs indoors is a great way to enjoy flowers during the cold months. It all starts with choosing the right type of bulb.

Are you ready for a little indoor color? Forcing flower bulbs indoors is a great way to enjoy flowers during the cold months. It all starts with choosing the right type of bulb. Early-flowering spring ...

If you want to enjoy the vibrant colors and fragrances of flowers indoors while it's bleak and chilly outside, consider forcing bulbs. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and other ...

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If you haven't yet tried forcing bulbs, it's rewarding and easy enough for children. Look for packaged kits at retail stores in early autumn or purchase bulbs at your favorite nursery or online ...

Every fall, I enjoy the ritual of buying and planting hyacinth bulbs to force into bloom in the middle of January. With hardly any effort, I can have hyacinths blooming in late January indoors! I also ...

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 ...

You don't have to wait for nature to hurry up in your garden outside in order to bring pretty blossoms into your home. Our tip? Force the blooms instead. This age-old gardening how-to tricks the ...

In the 1600s, when hyacinth bulbs were brought from Turkey to Europe, there was speculation that it was a new food. People thought the bulbs resembled a turnip, so they cut them in pieces and boiled ...