Bulbs in the Sustainable Garden

My fondness for bulbs did not really take on until I grew up and had a home of my own. I began to calculate the cost of planting my favorite annuals every year. Being a stay at home mother and always frugal, I though I'd found the perfect solution.

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Then we moved. And oh how I cried. The stately colorful gladiolus I planted still bloom there today. I visit from time to time... and remember. The originals have long since disappeared, but they have produced offspring and maybe the owner knows the goldmine that lies there, just under the surface.

I have seen the kids at the county fairs awarded blue ribbons. They have raised extraordinarily beautiful gladioluses, dahlias, and tuberous begonias - all of which grow from what gardeners, for convenience rather than botanical exactitude, call bulbs.

So if you have never emulated those young winners, you may be excused for assuming that bulbs are so easy to grow that a child can do it. While that is true, it is only a half-truth. Bulbs are easy to grow. A child can do it. Anybody can do it. Once. But to bring them back year after year to enrich the garden with uncommon beauty requires knowledge and work. Not a lot of work, just enought to give you pride in your accomplishment.

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Gardening gives me fun and health and knowledge.
It gives me laughter and colour. It gives me pictures of a most incredible beauty.
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Daughter of Iowa farmers, Missouri homesteader, and mother of five, Diane Ott Whealy never anticipated that one day she would become a leader in a grass-roots movement to preserve our agricultural biodiversity. The love for the land and the respect for heirloom seeds that Diane shared with her husband, Kent Whealy, led to their starting Seed Savers Exchange in 1975. Read More...