Spring Flowering Bulbs to Plant

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Peggy, Dan, and Summer share their favorite spring bulbs to plant - get a head start on the season and pick them up now. Connect With Peggy, Dan, and Summer: Peggy Anne Montgomery is a horticulturist and works with FlowerBulbs.com, Dan Benarcik is a horticulturist at Chanticleer Gardens, and Summer Rayne Oakes of Homestead Brooklyn recently started a new project called Flock up in the Finger Lakes of New York. FlowerBulbs.com Flower Bulbs on Facebook Flower Bulbs on Instagram Chanticleer Gardens Dan Benarcik’s Website Homestead Brooklyn on Instagram Flock Finger Lakes on YouTube Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:16.2	We are talking about bulbs this week with Pegan Montgomery.
0:20.9	We have Dan and we have Summer Rain Oaks from Homestead Brooklyn but also her new project
0:26.7	Flock.
0:27.7	We've been talking about bulbs I'm learning a lot because you guys know I don't grow too
0:32.0	many ornamentals.
0:33.0	I actually have remedied that quite a bit this past year but even then you know bulbs
0:37.4	just a little bit more difficult here as we heard in yesterday's show.
0:41.0	And Summer you're talking a little bit about how you want to have a tapestry of blooms
0:46.2	throughout the seasons and of course that would start with spring and so I was wondering
0:50.1	if either you or Peg your Dan had any of your sort of choice picks if someone is in a climate
0:55.2	that's perfect for that?
0:57.2	Well I'll go first because I think the thing that came to mind for me was crocuses and
1:06.0	you see them oftentimes at Botanic Gardens I was in Sweden and they had some it was like
1:11.2	really cold and chilly and there might have even been ice on the ground and there are
1:15.0	some crocuses popping up.
1:17.0	I always get such a rise out of seeing flowers in winter.
1:23.1	You know some of the native flowers like chamomileous virginiana which is our witch haze
1:27.5	all it has flowers in the winter and those are just things like really bring you a smile
1:33.5	on your face.
1:34.5	So for me it was crocuses but Peggan introduced like a wide variety of other spring and early
1:42.6	summer bulbs that expanded my mind beyond the crocus.
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