{"id":135,"date":"2010-01-07T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/07\/winter-flowering-bulbs\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:07:03","slug":"winter-flowering-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/01\/07\/winter-flowering-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Flowering Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S0ZUd8obkaI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/6yQQR5-leZA\/s1600-h\/Galanthus+nivalis+naturalized.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424115674682986914\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; display: block; height: 214px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S0ZUd8obkaI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/6yQQR5-leZA\/s320\/Galanthus+nivalis+naturalized.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galanthus naturalized in woodlands (courtesy of Brent and Becky&#8217;s Bulbs)<\/p><\/div>\n<div>These bulbs are the early birds. Give them a week of warm weather in the 50&#8217;s, nights slightly above freezing, and little to no snow cover. A beautiful flowering patch of winter aconite (Eranthis), snowdrops (Galanthus), glory of the snow (Chionodoxa), or early crocus appears in January and February in USDA zone 6 and 7.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These &#8220;special&#8221; bulbs naturalize and come back every year. Bulbs are planted in the fall and are purchased from bulb emporiums on-line or through mail order nursery catalogues. Two personal favorites for purchasing bulbs are Brent and Becky&#8217;s Bulbs in Gloucester, VA and van Bourgondien&#8217;s Bulbs in Dix Hills, NY.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Dec. 21, 2009 conversation with Brent Heath:<\/strong> he identified additional early flowering gems in the winter garden in zone 6: The earliest daffodil is <em>Narcissus<\/em> &#8216;Rijnveld&#8217;s Early Sensation&#8217; with golden yellow opening in mid-to late January in zone 7. Flowers last and last in the cold winter weather. Many species crocus bloom in February and March. Crocus ancyrensis &#8216;Golden Bunch&#8217; opens with small tangerine yellow blossoms, one of the earliest to bloom in the winter season. Other early bird crocus species are <em>C. imperati<\/em> and <em>C. tommasinianus<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div><em>Muscari armeniacum<\/em> &#8216;Christmas Pearl&#8217; bears 4-6 inch double blue flowers beginning in late February.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These bulbs are the early birds. Give them a week of warm weather in the 50&#8217;s, nights slightly above freezing, and little to no snow cover. A beautiful flowering patch of winter aconite (Eranthis), snowdrops (Galanthus), glory of the snow (Chionodoxa), or early crocus appears in January and February in USDA zone 6 and 7. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11057,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}