Summary
With summer barely over, it hardly seems the right time to start thinking about Christmas - but if you want a splash of colour indoors during the festive season, now is the time to prepare forced bulbs in pots.
You can have a mass of colour and fragrance indoors in winter with deliciously scented hyacinths, hippeastrums, irises, grape hyacinths, snowdrops and miniature daffodils, which can all be forced to brighten up your home in winter. Go to your garden centre now and look out for bulbs marked "prepared", which are specially adapted to bloom earlier than usual.See the full content of this document
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Force a Splash of Colour Indoors
Prepared bulbs have been given an artificial cold period for a number of weeks in conditions that imitate winter to speed up the natural flowering cycle.
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