Question: Last fall, I planted about two dozen iris corms. I followed the directions explicitly. All the plants appear to be healthy, growing green and straight but no blooms! I was advised that they ...

November is the perfect time to plant bulbs for spring flowers. This year, though, instead of planning to tiptoe through the tulips in April, why not go native and traipse through the Triteleia, ...

Today I will explore the wonderful world of corms. Along with bulbs, tubers, and rhizomes, corms constitute the quartet of underground storage structures that send up their silky blooms once a year — ...

The corm tunics of species of Hesperantha vary to a remarkable extent in this African genus in which other morphological characteristics provide little information for classification above the species ...

There is something sneakily special about bulbs and corms. Invariably, they surprise and delight when they decide, and in their own good time, to burst into life and start blooming. (If any of the ...

The arboretum’s plant sales are a lot like the preserve’s signature oaks — growing taller and sturdier by the year. Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum started with iris corms in 1973, digging them up ...

Description: Ixia is a bulbous plant from South Africa's Western Cape province. A member of the iris family, the African corn lily grows as a perennial in the Bay Area if given the right conditions.

Self-denial isn’t in my nature, especially when it comes to plants. Earlier this week, when I made a quick trip to a DIY store for a paint roller, all appreciation of prudence and economy vanished at ...