Pennsylvania’s climate is perfect for growing spring-blooming bulbs.

We have plenty of winter cold for favorites such as tulips and daffodils to get their needed “chill” time, then we usually have a long-enough spring of cool for the flowers to max out in the March-through-May time frame, and then we have hot, drier summers when the bulbs prefer those conditions during dormancy.

The only catch is that we have to plant the bulbs in fall.

That doesn’t bode well for gardeners who a.) don’t score well in the plan-ahead department, and/or b.) like to see immediate results.

The saving grace, though, is that many bulbs are perennial ones — meaning that you plant them once in fall and then they return spring after spring. All they ask is an annual late-spring foliage removal and maybe an annua

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