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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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  • 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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  • 3 of the Spring’s Most Historic Flowers

    Oct 30, 2018 Categories: Annuals

    3 of the Spring’s Most Historic Flowers Hyacinthoides Non-scripta – The English Bluebell Buy Now for Fall Planting We will be finishing the “Bulb Newsletters” in the next 2 weeks because you may be tiring of the subject, but we wouldn’t be Harvesting History if we didn’t persist in trying to teach you about the finer points of heirloom gardening and this includes reminding you of when things absolutely must be done. With respect to planting these flower bulbs, the time has come. In Hardiness Zones 1-4, you should be planting now. You have at most 2-3 weeks left. In Hardiness Zones 5-7, you can start now and you have until the beginning of January. In Hardiness Zones 8-9, you can start planting in mid-November and continue through the

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