Around The House. Spring-blooming gardens for every location around your home

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1 Around The House Spring-blooming gardens for every location around your home

2 Around The House garden solutions presents simple ways to create beautiful blooming spaces around your home. When other plants and flowers are still dormant, fall-planted, spring-blooming bulbs will give you the burst of color you are craving after a long winter. Contents Patios and Porches - Enjoy colorful outdoor living spaces Garden to Vase - Growing for cut flowers Birdbath Garden - Beauty outside of the box Containers and Window Boxes - Gardening in small spaces Beds and Borders - Enhance your spring landscapes Curb Appeal - Increase the beauty of your home Blooming Walkways - Greet guests with spring flowers Naturalizing - Hardy, deer resistant blooms Fence Gardens - Soften fences and property lines Like what you see here? Visit Longfield-Gardens.com to see the varieties featured in this book and for more tips and inspiration.

3 Patios and Porches Enjoy colorful outdoor living spaces Tulips planted along a patio wall give a big splash of spring color. Longfield Gardens 2015 Your porch is an extension of your home. Decorate it with beautiful spring blooms! Visit Longfield-Gardens.com for more tips & inspiration. Patios & Porches 2

4 Garden to Vase Growing for cut flowers Cut Flower Tips Plant bulbs in your raised beds in the fall. They will bloom and be ready for cutting before it s time to plant your vegetables. Add a little sugar to the vase to feed your flowers and help them last longer. Your spring flower arrangements will last longer if you give daffodils their own vase. The sap in their stems can make other flowers wilt. 3 Garden to Vase

5 Birdbath Garden Welcome birds, bees & butterflies Alliums Daffodils Crocus Create The Look Alliums, daffodils and crocus planted around a birdbath create a beautiful and charming spring garden that you can enjoy for years to come. It s simple to grow this beautiful birdbath garden with these tips! You will need 3-5 allium bulbs, 18 daffodil bulbs, 48 crocus bulbs and your favorite birdbath or ornamental garden structure. These bulbs are hardy, returning every year. Longfield Gardens 2015 This combination is deer resistant and pollinators love crocus and alliums! Visit Longfield-Gardens.com for more tips & inspiration. Birdbath Garden 4

6 Containers and Window Boxes Gardening for small spaces Container gardens are the perfect solution for apartments, urban homes and small spaces. Combine with other floral and foliage elements to create a burst of color in containers and window boxes. 5 Containers & Window Boxes

7 Beds and Borders Enhance your landscapes with spring flowers Pair tall Darwin Hybrid Tulips with miniature daffodils in raised beds. Layer tulips, hyacinth and muscari in front of shrubs for bold spring color. Muscari are the perfect companion. Plant in front of shrubs or taller blooming varieties for a beautiful transition in beds and borders. Visit Longfield-Gardens.com for more tips & inspiration. Beds & Borders 6

8 Curb Appeal Increase the beauty of your home s exterior Be the WOW home in your neighborhood! Spring-blooming bulbs add curb appeal to homes when most colorful perennials are still dormant. Big blooming alliums are attention grabbers! Make your home shine with a mix of color-coordinated tulips. Boasting big blooms and bright colors, Darwin Hybrid Tulips are perfect for curb appeal. 7 Curb Appeal

9 Blooming Walkways Greet guests with a celebration of spring flowers Layer Darwin Hybrid Tulips, muscari and daffodils along walkways. Add containers filled with flowers to complete the look. Double tulips are shorter and combine beautifully with muscari for lining a walkway garden. Visit Longfield-Gardens.com for more tips & inspiration. Blooming Walkways 8

10 Naturalizing Hardy, deer resistant bulbs that bloom every year OUR FAVORITE NATURALIZING BULBS FOR SPRING GARDENS Crocus Daffodils Scilla Chionodoxa Alliums Anemone Scilla creates a magical look in wooded areas. Crocus naturalize easily in lawns. Underplant trees with bulbs for a casual, no-fuss look. 9 Naturalizing

11 Fence Gardens Soften fences and property lines Tulips & Daffodils Daffodils How to Plant Daffodils Along a Fence Fences are the perfect backdrop for a colorful display of spring daffodils. Daffodils will multiply over time, but if you want a fuller garden faster, you can simply plant the bulbs closer together. Plan on between 5 and 9 bulbs per square foot. Daffodils bulbs are hardy, returning every spring. Layer with Darwin Hybrid Tulips every year to add a pop of color and more height. Longfield Gardens 2015 Visit Longfield-Gardens.com for more tips & inspiration. Fence Garden 10

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