Bulbs: Have Any of You Successfully Grown RANUNCULUS??, 1 by kosk0025

kosk0025 wrote:
I planted them last year in a container as corms? tubers? bulbs? what are those little brown things?. They bloomed beautifully in June or July. The foliage has come back in the pot, and I would expect them to bloom again here the same time. Which I find to be very odd---I think of it as a spring plant----this is the time of year all of the nurseries sell the blooming ones. Yet, if you plant it yourself , around here the natural outdoor bloom time is summer. I understand that the nurseries are using greenhouses to assist, but I find it interesting. It is one of my favorite flowers. I can't help but buy them as blooming plants every year and treat them as annuals, in addition to my own attempt at planting the corms last year. This year, I paired orange ranunculus with purple alyssum in pots. That is my pic. The alyssum I started from seed indoors---easiest thing ever to start from seed inside, and I will never purchase it again! (I tried direct sowing it last year as rec'd on the seed packets----got nothing.) Blueberries and cream mix from John Scheeper's.