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Bulb Gardening: Planning your Fall Planting
Planning a bulb garden is easy and rewarding. Whether you’re planting plants in spring or summer you can still prepare the area for your bulbs.
A great trick is to use empty nursery pots as placeholders for bulbs – place them where you want to plant bulbs in the Fall. It may sound silly but if you dig a hole, set the empty pot in it, fill it up with soil and cover the top just so you can’t see the edge, you will have the work and spacing done in advance. Then this Fall, just pop the pot out with a shovel and you’ll have a hole ready for your bulbs. Just add bulb food and the soil from your container and you’re done!
Bulbs are a gardener’s best friend because they’re low maintenance, many multiply without the help of the gardener (but to help the process we recommend G&B Bud & Bloom Fertilizer), and they are beautiful!
A few of our favorite bulbs include:
- Tulips
- Daffodils
- Asiatic Lillies
- Allium
- Galanthus
- Crocus
- Gladiolus
- Caladiums
- Dahlias
- Lily of the Valley
Check out any of our three locations for a wide assortment of bulbs to beautify your garden with!
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Marigolds are among the most dependable annual flowers for high desert gardens. Their bright yellow, gold, orange, and sometimes red blooms provide months of color while thriving in the sunny, dry conditions common throughout Northern Nevada and other high desert regions.
Growing roses in the high desert of Northern Nevada means working with extremes. The climate brings intense sun, low humidity, alkaline soil, and wide temperature swings between day and night. While that might sound harsh, roses can do very well here if you focus on soil improvement, deep watering, and consistent seasonal care.
For years, bright blooms and vibrant greenery dominated garden design trends, but darker foliage has quietly become one of the most impactful ways to create a more elevated outdoor space.
One of the most effective ways to create a successful, low-maintenance landscape in this region is to use native plants or native-derived varieties that are already adapted to the Great Basin environment.