Typically, most bulbs you plant in your home garden (including favorites like tulips, daffodils, and crocus flowers) need to be placed in the soil before the first frost in order to guarantee blooms ...

Corms function much like bulbs—but a little extra prep makes all the difference. When it comes to flower gardening, ranunculus and anemones truly stand out. These charming cool-season flowers are ...

Cultivating saffron, the world's most expensive spice, is surprisingly feasible at home, even in small spaces. Starting with healthy corms and well-draining soil, planting occurs in late summer for ...

Q. I’ve begun my winter cleanup, and I dug up some gladiolus corms that I planted a couple of years ago so I could spread them around. I was surprised to discover that the corms, including lots of ...

It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure. Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses. Each ...

This week’s work in our garden includes digging up and preparing gladiolus bulbs for winter storage. Gladiolus, or glads for short, cannot survive in the ground though the winter in our area. Even ...

November is the perfect time to plant bulbs for spring flowers. This year, though, instead of planning to tiptoe through the tulips in April, why not go native and traipse through the Triteleia, ...

Self-denial isn’t in my nature, especially when it comes to plants. Earlier this week, when I made a quick trip to a DIY store for a paint roller, all appreciation of prudence and economy vanished at ...

Today I will explore the wonderful world of corms. Along with bulbs, tubers, and rhizomes, corms constitute the quartet of underground storage structures that send up their silky blooms once a year — ...

Many plants use underground parts known as bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers to store carbohydrates for use during difficult conditions. Plants that have an underground storage organ are called ...