There are over 50 different types of spring-blooming crocus bulbs in colors ranging from white or pale pink and lavender to more intense shades of showy blue-violet, purple, orange, pink, or ruby, ...

If there's anyone who knows a thing or two about gardening, it's Martha Stewart. In addition to her various gardening books and entire home and garden media empire, she continues to grow and nurture ...

Dear Master Gardener: I am designing a memorial garden at our church and was wondering about planting crocus bulbs this fall. There is a verse in the Bible that says, “The desert shall rejoice and ...

There's not much that rivals spring bulb bloom in the garden. The anticipation all winter. The inevitable forgetting where you planted bulbs or that you planted any at all. And then the show. It’s a ...

The warm February weather has animals, plants, and humans alike confused about what season we are in. Meteorological spring begins on Friday, March 1, 2024, but spring flowers are already popping up ...

It’s late winter and soon we will start (if we haven’t already!) seeing the very earliest blooming ephemeral spring flowers, such as snowdrops and winter aconites. Ephemerals are plants that will ...

For the brilliant displays like this, you’ll want to plant your tulips and other bulbs about 2 inches deep. Courtesy Johnson County Extension The transition from summer to fall means the colorful ...

Besides the snow melt and the ice letting waters flow in streams, migrants are moving in. Within this past week, the first robins, red-winged blackbirds, grackles, juncos, purple finches, killdeer, ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. Though some of the 80 known ...