“September’s Baccalaureate – a combination is of crickets — crows — and retrospects and a dissembling breeze.” – Emily Dickinson. “September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, ...

Winter can feel gray and gloomy, with bare trees and frozen lawns stretching as far as the eye can see. But what if your garden could burst with color even when the cold is at its harshest? By ...

How are spring-flowering bulbs like baseball? You have your major league players — tulips and daffodils —and the minors — hyacinth, muscari, scilla, galanthus (snowdrops) and crocus, to name a few.

We may not have any snow in the south of England, but our lawn is covered with snow crocuses (Crocus sieberi). Individually these slender lilac blooms are insignificant, but en masse they are ...

Now that summer is drawing to a close, it's a good time to learn how to plant crocus bulbs. These perennials may be small, but they bring a welcome splash of colour amongst the late-winter gloom, ...

Just because summer is almost over doesn't mean we have to say goodbye to fresh floral blooms. While the spring crocus is noted as a herald of warmer weather, the autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) ...

What is in full bloom in my garden can be finished and gone in London and have not yet put in an appearance of any kind in Aberdeen. And no year has been more difficult to call than this one, with ...