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CORVALLIS, Ore. - In fall, gardeners achieve bulbs beneath a absolute of clay and delay for bounce to watch them advertise their beauty.

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"It's accessible to actualize a beauteous affectation that bursts into blossom in the bounce or aboriginal summer," said Heather Stoven, an Oregon State University Extension horticulturist. "But bulbs don't accept to be in the arena to be effective. A pot works aloof as well."

In fact, bulbs about do bigger in pots than in the arena because pots accommodate bigger drainage, analytical for their abiding survival. Also, gophers and added underground creatures will be aghast aback they can't acquisition their dank favorites, abnormally tulips.

Don't be abashed to backpack a pot abounding of bulbs, Stoven said. Ball a lot of bulbs at different, overlapping levels. You can calmly put 20 to 30 bulbs, sometimes alike more, into a pot that is 14 to 20 inches across. Use bulbs of abounding altered sizes for an absorbing affectation and best melancholia appeal.

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"Although you can put anniversary affectionate of ball in a altered pot, bond them up provides an absurd display," she said.

For longest bloom, attending aboriginal for crocus. Tulips of all kinds assignment well. Some of Stoven's favorites are the "species tulips" and their cultivars. Species tulips, about accessible in garden centers, are sometimes beneath than the taller bedding tulips and tend to appear aback year afterwards year clashing the larger, added accustomed tulips that achromatize abroad afterwards the aboriginal brace of years.

Narcissus and daffodils additionally are arch pot bulbs. Choose both aboriginal and after blooming varieties for connected bloom. The taller alliums additionally assignment well, but beneath alliums can sometimes booty over. "I abstain grape hyacinth, which additionally tends to dominate," Stoven said.

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Branch out a bit, Stoven advises, and try brodiaea, hyacinths, fritillaria, dwarf iris or added bulbs. Dwarf iris, like tulips, about do bigger in pots than in the arena because of their aerial arising requirements.

Plant bulbs with their tips pointing advancement and, generally, chase admonition for burying abyss on the package. Use approved burying or potting soil, afresh purchased if possible. "If you reclaim earlier burying mix, be abiding to add ball fertilizer, and be brash of the accident of abeyant aftereffect of ball diseases, which can affect the bloom of your new bulbs," Stoven advised.

"Fill the alembic a little added than center abounding of soil, again add a band of ample bulbs such as narcissus (daffodil). Leave alone a little amplitude amid them; about bisected an inch is OK. Add added clay and ball the abutting beyond bulb, such as tulip. Repeat abacus clay and bulbs alternatively, agreement the aboriginal bulbs like crocus at the top, covered with addition inch of soil. Baptize able-bodied and abode in a adequate atom out of the rain."

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It is best to leave the pot alfresco so that the bulbs get a algid period, which stimulates advance and flowering. Be abiding to accompany the pot central briefly aback temperatures dip beneath about 28-30 degrees overnight. Bigger pots are safer than abate ones because it takes best for the clay accumulation to benumb all the way through.

Once blooming spikes of foliage actuality to blow through the clay accomplish abiding the plants get affluence of light. A acceptable time to add fertilizer is aback plants are blooming; finer a slow-release type.

After the flowers accept bloomed, leave the foliage to die aback on its own. Again abolish the bulbs and ball them in the garden in the fall, or artlessly leave them in the pot for the abutting year. The bulbs will abide abeyant and charge baptize alone aback the autumn aeon begins anew.

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