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| FLOWERING BULBS
Looking forward to color in your yard next spring? Now’s the time to plant suring-flowepng bulbs, says A. S. Beecher, associate horticulturist at VPI. He says bulbs planted earl/1 in the' fall develop an extensive root system before cold weather begins and are able to start off well as temperatures rise early in the spring. ' i
Some of the familiar bulbs which will give spring color, kre daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, pulbous iris, crocus, scillas, hyacinths, snow drops, and odiXas.
For the average garden crocus, chionodozas, and show drops may be set with the tops of the bulbs about two inches below the soil surface. Bulbous iris should be (it least three inches below. jand hyacinths about four inches. Plant tulips six to seven inches fromj top of bulb to surface of soil. Daffodils
should be planted fairly djeep, about six to eight inches fromj soil
surface to base of the bulbj In general, all bulbs should be planted deeper in light soils thaij inf heavy soils. i
Bulbs do well in good garden
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