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  • The Rarest Color in Nature-Six Bulbs That Produce Dazzling Displays of Blue

    Oct 22, 2019 Categories: Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    PHOTO OF MRS. JAMES’ ORIGINAL BLUE GARDEN FROM 1913 The Rarest Color in Nature- Six Bulbs That Produce Dazzling Displays of Blue ALL OF THE BULBS DISCUSSED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/flower-bulbs-tubers/bulbs-for-fall-planting/ FOR SPECIFIC FLOWER BULBS, YOU CAN CLICK ON THE “BUY NOW” BUTTON LOCATED ON EACH PHOTO AND THAT BUTTON WILL TAKE YOU TO THE WEBPAGE WHICH DISCUSSES THAT BULB At Harvesting History we often are asked to help customers choose flowers based on color. “I am looking for reds or purples or whites, etc” The most frequently requested color is true blue, not bluish purple or periwinkle blue, but true blue. Ironically, the rarest of all pure colors in the flower world is true blue. There are thousands, perhaps more, of bluish-purple blossoms, but true blue occurs

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  • Critter Resistant, Rare and Beautiful-The Best Early Spring Bulbs For Nourishing Pollinators

    Sep 05, 2019 Categories: Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    Iris Reticulatas Critter Resistant, Rare and Beautiful- The Best Early Spring Bulbs For Nourishing Pollinators Each fall, Harvesting History creates a series of newsletters about flower bulbs that must be planted in autumn so that they can produce magnificent flowers throughout the spring. For the past 15 years we have noticed a decline in interest on the part of the gardening public when it comes to spring bulbs. The decline is the result of critters which eat the bulbs throughout the winter or devour the blossoms just as they are about to burst into blossom throughout the spring. All the hard work of the fall produces little or no results in the spring. This year, we are going to focus on bulbs that, for the most part, are critter

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  • The Snowdrops and Glories of the Snow-True Harbingers of Spring

    Sep 05, 2019 Categories: Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Perennials, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    Chionodoxa The Snowdrops and Glories of the Snow- True Harbingers of Spring This year Harvesting History’s fall newsletter series is going to focus on spring flowering bulbs that are critter resistant and great plants for nourishing pollinators. In the last newsletter we discussed Iris reticulatas. In this newsletter we are going to focus on two bulbs that all of you have seen in the older gardens of historic neighborhoods, but may not have known their names. They are some of the most welcome sites of early spring and in the case of Snowdrops an international symbol of hope. Chionodoxa, known as ‘The Glory of the Snow’, and Galanthus, the much beloved ‘Snowdrop’, are both tiny plants which produce multiple flower stems. They are all critter resistant which probably accounts for

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