Shopping for flower bulbs: It’s one of the more joyful summertime garden chores, certainly better than dragging hoses and sprinklers around or keeping ahead of the most incorrigible weeds. Bulb catalogs and their corresponding websites have no shortage of enticing choices, and now is the time to order spring-flowering bulbs for fall planting — or risk that some will be sold out. That can lead to uninspired planting, barely scratching the surface of the potential bulbs offer in garden-making. Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pa., a former private estate with 35 acres, open to visitors since 1993, wants to show us otherwise. It calls itself “a pleasure garden,” and is known for a creative use of plants.

Source: New York Times July 15, 2020 21:56 UTC