Brent & Becky's Blog — hyacinths

Fill your garden with fragrance! Plant these gorgeous flowering bulbs for their delightful scents that can be enjoyed inside and out.

Mid-spring is showtime for many of our favorite bulbs! Here’s what’s blooming in our gardens right now.

  When fall comes around, and spring-flowering bulbs are ready to make their way into the ground, hands down one of the most commonly asked questions for new bulb gardeners is “how deep do I plant?” And with a quick Google search yielding a whopping 30 million answers in seconds, we can’t blame them for being a little confused. Thankfully, though, the answer isn’t nearly as complicated as it may seem.    How Deep to Plant Bulbs When planting bulbs, the trick is to plant them not so deeply that it takes them too long to appear in spring, but...

Deer. We love catching a glimpse of them out in the wilderness, and they look perfectly picturesque on a postcard. Though, if you’ve ever planted lilies or tulips, you’ll agree that they’re also giant, scavenging rodents looking to dig up all our hard work! Luckily, keeping them away can be as simple as planting even more bulb beauties into our landscape. Here are some of our favorites for keeping the deer away.   Hyacinths Known for their colorful clusters of star-shaped flowers, hyacinths may be beautiful to behold, but they have a secret weapon lurking behind their good looks: poison....