If you’re keen to start gardening, but your soil is too cold and damp for digging, consider potting up a spring container instead. Depending on the weather, a few spring containers planted with beautiful, cold-tolerant plants now will give you several weeks of colour.
These days, you’re likely to find more than just grass growing in many Canadian lawns. Beautiful spring flower bulbs create a floriferous lawn.
From across Canada, 25 recommendations of favourite bulbs to consider planting, provided to Garden Making by gardening experts, writers and industry leaders
Beverley asks what type of fertilizer does one use on spring bulbs once they have flowered. Most experts recommend feeding them twice a year.
Spring is not the time to plant spring bulbs. But it is the best time to plan where to plant the spring-blooming bulbs in the fall.