Horticulture

FUN with BULBS

A lot of people have already written articles on the best ways to plant bulbs, full of instructions on how to get the most flowers or recommendations on the best varieties. This article is something different. I’m not going to give you any actual practical advice. This article is about how to maximize your harvest of the most important garden product of all: Happiness.

We garden for one reason: To bring joy and pleasure to our lives. That’s why the perfect garden is different for every person, and why my special bulb-planting method is fundamentally ridiculous, but it ensures that you, the gardener,

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