Where Bulbs Shine - On & On with Karen Bussolini

Please join us for another amazing gardening presentation by Karen Bussolini, the widely-published garden photographer, speaker, writer, NOFA-Accredited Organic Land Care Professional, and eco-friendly garden coach. Karen's topic will be "Where Bulbs Shine - On & On," just in time to begin planting your fall bulbs!

Karen's talk will look at why some bulbs persist in the garden, while others disappear. It's so easy to fall for those seductive photos in the bulb catalogs, to optimistically plant every pretty thing that catches your eye only to be disappointed in spring. Some disappear without a trace. Others we expectantly watch as they emerge from the cold ground, elongate and develop fat promising buds that become deer candy before they have a chance to open. Some are great the first season, okay the next and totally wimp out after that. Others are so enthusiastic we wish they would wimp out. A lot depends on breeding, site conditions, origin and palatability to critters.

With her commitment to sustainability and preference for conserving time and money, Karen has come to depend on an array of bulbs that come up every spring with no effort on her part, bloom their heads off, disappear without much fuss to make room for successive plantings, and increase year by year. Join us to see seductive photos of long-lasting bulbs in real gardens and landscapes around the country accompanied by advice on selection, siting, bulbs for difficult conditions, naturalizing, perennializing and artfully combining with perennials for a long season of bloom.

Read more in Karen's article, "Great Bulbs that Last," for The American Horticultural Society's magazine, The American Gardener.

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