tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post3397179953462055861..comments2024-03-28T03:06:56.796-07:00Comments on Prairiebreak: A week in the life of a peripatetic gardener (Toronto sojourn...)Panayoti Kelaidishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-23646984928942302472014-04-18T08:54:33.643-07:002014-04-18T08:54:33.643-07:00Seeing pictures such as that peony always remind m...Seeing pictures such as that peony always remind me how amazing the wild world is. I can only imagine coming across a patch of that in some mountain valley! <br />...and the Adonis isn't all that shabby either.<br />FrankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-14641810371683699852014-04-17T12:13:23.201-07:002014-04-17T12:13:23.201-07:00I think the key to growing spring bulbs in the int...I think the key to growing spring bulbs in the interior is mulching. Our weather is just too manic to not make good use of insulating mulch. I have two beds with hyacinths. One has a thin layer of peat moss over the soil. The other is mulched with a few inches of chopped leaves. The leaves did a great job insulating the soil from our early warmup. The hyacinths mulched with chopped leaves are still two weeks from blooming. The hyacinths with a thin layer of peat moss are in full bloom, but all the largest flower stems were killed by a recent snow storm. Using an insulating layer of chopped leaves really helps delay emergence thereby preventing damage from spring cold snaps.<br /><br />JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com