Q: We have tulips coming up, and something is eating them. My best guess is rabbits, as we have seen a cottontail out back. I'm attaching photos of the damage. Any suggestions you may have as to how ...

It’s early spring. Unnoticed beyond the gay purple and yellow of crocuses, the sharp green tips of tulip leaves are emerging from the mulch. The growing tulip foliage has hopefulness going for it, but ...

We’re now in the prime of bulb-planting season, that rite of fall that seems out of place when we’re about ready to yank or cut back plants in the rest of the yard. That contrarian picture is just one ...

QUESTION: I planted tulip bulbs last fall. They broke through the ground and were coming up nicely this year. Apparently, the critters liked them, too! The top of the new growth was nipped off.

This handy bulb planter features both centimetre and inch markers, for planting at the correct depth, plus a spring-loaded ...

A local farm in Ottawa is calling it quits on its spring season after a fungal disease destroyed 500,000 tulips. The disease, called tulip fire, is devastating for farmers as the spores remain in the ...

Would you rather spend your money buying a house or one tulip bulb? The question sounds ridiculous, but during the historic Netherlands tulip craze of the 1630s, a single tulip bulb could sell for the ...

Q • I purchased a young tulip tree this summer and planted it in a raised flower bed. The leaves started turning yellow in color, as if it were autumn. Is this normal? A • You don’t say what type of ...

They define one of the boundaries of my spring dreams, inspiring me with speckled Rembrandt varieties, Darwin hybrids with ...

Did you know that in 17th century Holland, you could buy a house or a farm field for a handful of tulip bulbs? Not because property was dirt cheap, but because tulips were that valuable. The Dutch ...