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By James Cooks
Not very many tulips grow well indoors, so make sure when you order for this purpose. They grow better in garden soil than in bulb fibre and will take between two and three months in your cool, dark place before they will be ready to be lifted and brought indoors.
By the time the flower stem is about a foot or so in height move the pot to a good south facing window to give the plant as much light as possible. Keep watering well while the magnificent flowers are showing and when they have finally died, cut the flower stems cleanly away at the base and continue the watering together with a weekly feed of balanced plant fertilizer.
Some of the smaller bulbs, such as crocus, snowdrops, scillas and muscari should not be brought into the warmth and the light until the flowers are beginning to show colour. For some reason yellow crocuses resent forcing indoors, so choose other colors for this purpose or lift yellow varieties in the garden and pot them up at the last moment as they are beginning to show color and then bring them into the house.
Many other bulbs in the garden can be dug up, potted and brought into the home for the final glory of their flowering and then returned to their original outdoor space to continue their lives and prepare for next year's flowering.
Roman hyacinths, fragrant Soleil d'Or (yellow) and Paper White narcissi and Crocus verrais Vanguard will all flower naturally by Christmas if you plant them up early enough. Follow the same directions as outlined above.
These specially prepared crowns come in a little carton, requiring only the addition of water to start them into growth. Because they can be timed so accurately they are wonderful for birthday presents or other special occasions.
By the time the flower stem is about a foot or so in height move the pot to a good south facing window to give the plant as much light as possible. Keep watering well while the magnificent flowers are showing and when they have finally died, cut the flower stems cleanly away at the base and continue the watering together with a weekly feed of balanced plant fertilizer.
Some of the smaller bulbs, such as crocus, snowdrops, scillas and muscari should not be brought into the warmth and the light until the flowers are beginning to show colour. For some reason yellow crocuses resent forcing indoors, so choose other colors for this purpose or lift yellow varieties in the garden and pot them up at the last moment as they are beginning to show color and then bring them into the house.
Many other bulbs in the garden can be dug up, potted and brought into the home for the final glory of their flowering and then returned to their original outdoor space to continue their lives and prepare for next year's flowering.
Roman hyacinths, fragrant Soleil d'Or (yellow) and Paper White narcissi and Crocus verrais Vanguard will all flower naturally by Christmas if you plant them up early enough. Follow the same directions as outlined above.
These specially prepared crowns come in a little carton, requiring only the addition of water to start them into growth. Because they can be timed so accurately they are wonderful for birthday presents or other special occasions.
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Erica gracilis ia beautiful Christmas indoor gardening houseplant. It cannot be kept for long because the roots have been trimmed to fit into small pots.
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