Flowers

If you're planting flower bulbs this fall with the hopes of a beautiful spring garden, you'll need to protect your investment from becoming lunch for the local wildlife. Squirrels, chipmunks, moles, and gophers are just a few of the many pests that love to disturb freshly planted bulbs.

Species tulips ? the generations-old original tulips from which the showy ones were hybridized. They not only come back year after year, but also often actually increase in number, basically require no care, and many can be grown all over the country. Tiny Persian Pearl Tulips or T. humilis pulchella as shown here are just 4 inches tall.

If you live in Zone 6 or lower, it's important to dig and store any cannas, callas, caladiums, dahlias, tuberous begonias, gladioluses, and tuberoses before the ground freezes.

Whether you want to preserve a special bouquet or keep the beauty of your summer garden alive throughout the year, drying flowers is a relatively simple process.

Michigan resident and hobby photographer Lynne Kasey submitted a series of spectacular flower photos she's taken around her property. Enjoy her views!

Here are some suggestions for easy-care flowers and plants that come back year after year.

If there's one trick to planting irises, it's making sure the white fleshy part, called the rhizome, isn't planted too deep. The iris won't bloom, and could even rot. Here are some more tricks for healthy, vibrant irises.

When starting your flower or vegetable garden from seed, consider incorporating some heirloom varieties into your plan.

Restoring their property to prairie grasses and prairie flowers lets the Tagtows see beautiful colors take shape.