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Some gardeners have all the luck.
Their roses win prizes, and
their flower beds are always filled with color and heady fragrance, giving the neighborhood spring fever all year round.
They easily rattle off the names of 20 new varieties they just ordered from the seed catalogs, and have already mapped out their floral yard show for next season with color-coded precision.
You, on the other hand, are struggling to keep your one-and-only petunia plant perky.
What’s their secret?
Any great gardener will tell you it’s all in the timing. A lot of planning goes into creating a harmony of flowers that blossom at just the right tirhe. That symphony, they’ll say, can begin only after the novice understands the gardener’s basic three: perennials, annuals and bulbs.
Perennials are to a garden as a classic blazer is to a wardrobe — they are mainstays that appear year after year. Sprouting from permanent roots in early spring and flowering in the late spring, summer or autumn, perennials lie dormant for most of the winter, only to bloom again the next season.
In most cases, bulbs fall into the
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