Spring has arrived, which means your always-reliable tulips will soon be blooming, if they haven't already. So are you prepared to help them fulfill all their potential when that dazzling color comes? Spring is always much brighter when your tulips begin to emerge; and every good gardener wants their flowers to stay in top condition, even after the blooming period ends. So below I have listed a few tips to help keep your tulips magnificent-looking for as long as possible.

Carnivorous Plants for Your Garden? The Venus Flytrap and the Sundew

There are plants that eat other creatures? There's really nothing unnatural about it even though it sounds like some kind of experiment gone completely wrong. Carnivorous plants have been here on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years and there are even more than 500 different kinds. Their appetites can range from small aquatic organisms to everyday insects and spiders. Technically a carnivorous plant is labeled so because it not only has to attract, capture and kill other animal life forms, but then it has to digest and absorb the nutrients from whatever it has killed. Creepy right? Of course, but once again, it's a natural thing that's been happening long before we all got here.

Nutrient Film Technique is uniquely simple. It involves a shallow film of nutrient solution constantly recirculating past the roots of your plants. Nutrient solution is pumped from the tank to the channel, over the plants roots and back into the tank.

Life is Good When You Have a Warm Bottom
Some Like it Hot - Warm Bottoms Make for Happy Tops

Author: Michelle Moore

Have you ever jumped into a car on a chilly morning, shivering while the heater blasts cold air right through you? You know it's only a matter of time until the engine heats up turning the arctic blast into warm air, yet it seems like an eternity. Now, fast forward to the invention of heated seats. Gone are the teeth chattering minutes. Instead, radiant heat rises from the seat and virtually hugs you with warmth in just moments. You can employ the same principal to heating your greenhouse with bottom heat. For the rest of the article, bottom heat refers to warming the soil and plant's roots from the underside rather than warming one's backside. Either way, what is pleasant for people is often good for plants too.

When it comes to easy… there is probably no easier method of plant propagation than through the use of bulbs, commonly known as flower bulbs. While often confused with being a sexual form of plant reproduction (i.e. seeds), bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers are all classic examples of asexual propagation.