One of the best ways to bring the joy of the garden indoors for winter is by forcing bulbs, i.e. tricking them to bloom early for an indoor display. This is a particularly popular practice for festive ...

The holidays have a funny way of turning even the most casual plant owner into a full-blown indoor gardener. Suddenly, everyone wants flowers exploding out of pots just in time for December ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forcing bulbs indoors allows you to enjoy colorful flowers during the winter months, brightening up your home. Simulating winter ...

Previous generations of gardeners knew that coaxing bulbs to bloom early was the easiest way to have fresh flowers in winter. Here’s how they did it. By Margaret Roach Before Page Dickey and Francis ...

Fall finds garden centers hawking bulbs for tulips, daffodils and other spring bloomers. You can plant these outdoors before cold weather comes, or bring them inside and engage in a little trickery ...

Daffodils that have been forced into early bloom are a cheerful way to enjoy colorful flowers indoors despite winter's chill. (Rick Wetherbee) It may be cold and gloomy outside, but you can still ...

Winter came early to Cornish Flat this year with a heavy snow in late October. I love the snow and cold, but don’t need six months of it - which could happen this year if we have snow from October ...

Forcing is the term to describe the process that stimulates bulbs to bloom out of season; forcing bulbs is how you can have bulbs blooming in pots in the middle of winter. The most-found forced bulbs ...