This spring, I took a trip to The Netherlands to see one of the greatest displays of tulips - Keukenhof's tulip festival. Tulips have always topped the list of my favorite spring bulbs and seeing ...

No spring is complete without a display of gorgeous, if frivolous, tulips. I can understand why people in 17th -century Netherlands lost their heads over these blooms. While most spring bulbs ...

While red is a classic tulip color ... this where they were digging them up. Tulips like to be planted at a depth of 3 times the size of the bulbs which is about 4 to 8 inches deep.

The ground is soft and easily planted with bulbs. The last spring flowering ... of Grand Perfection are feathered with dark red, like tulips in an old Dutch painting Are they worth the cost ...

Veseys Seeds is marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War with a special donation. The company, which has sold seeds and gardening supplies from its location in York, P.E.I ...

green and red peppers, tomatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, French beans and runner beans. At first, tulip bulbs were sufficiently unfamiliar to be mistaken for vegetables. On at least one occasion ...

If you want to fill your garden with colour next spring, plant bulbs from October to December, before the first frost. Daffodils, tulips, crocus, grape hyacinths and fritillarias are just some of ...

In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the hope they could make a massive profit. But was Tulip Mania - a parable of greed compared to the recent heavy investment in the ...

Red pepper flakes sprinkled in the holes and near the top at planting time discourage digging rodents. Wet ground and poor drainage cause problems for most bulbs, including tulips. If they stay ...

For this week's feature, I watched the Holland Parks and Recreation Department prepare and plant thousands of tulip bulbs along Washington Boulevard with help from students at Holland Christian ...