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Nov. 7—The days are getting cooler and frosts are upon us—a time to say goodbye to the last of the perennials and store away the garden tools. You may have finished deadheading and planting ...
After a frost, store these in their pots, keeping the soil barely moist. Or trim off the stems, dig up the bulbs, and wrap in peat moss, storing at temperatures around 40 to 50 degrees. These include:
The word "bulb" has a somewhat different meaning to botanists than it does to gardeners and horticulturalists.In gardening, a "bulb" is a plant's underground or ground-level storage organ that can be dried, stored, and sold in this state, and then planted to grow again.
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Bulb. Allium cepa (onion) Allium sativum (garlic) Camassia quamash (blue camas) Foeniculum vulgare (fennel) Rhizome. Curcuma longa (turmeric) Panax ginseng (ginseng) Alpinia galanga (galangal) Arthropodium spp. (rengarenga, vanilla lily, and others) Canna spp. (canna) Cordyline fruticosa (ti) Maranta arundinacea (arrowroot) Nelumbo nucifera ...
A geophyte (earth+plant) is a plant with an underground storage organ including true bulbs, corms, tubers, tuberous roots, enlarged hypocotyls, and rhizomes. Most plants with underground stems are geophytes but not all plants that are geophytes have underground stems. Geophytes are often physiologically active even when they lack leaves.
Nov. 7—The days are getting cooler and frosts are upon us—a time to say goodbye to the last of the perennials and store away the garden tools. You may have finished deadheading and planting ...
Place the bulbs in the soil with the pointed sides up, making sure to plant each bulb close together. Cover small bulbs with a 1/2-inch of soil and larger bulbs up to their tips. Water the bulbs well.