Building a Bulb Lawn
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Benjamin Futa explains how to create a beautiful lawn with flowering bulbs.
Benjamin Futa, Director of the Allen Centennial Garden at UW-Madison, provides a step-by-step guide for creating a beautiful arrangement of flowering bulbs in your lawn. Futa offers a list of things to take into consideration before planting: when is it okay to mow down the leaves, the bulb budget, checking the neighborhood covenants and the scale of the garden.
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Building a Bulb Lawn
Special | 44m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Benjamin Futa, Director of the Allen Centennial Garden at UW-Madison, provides a step-by-step guide for creating a beautiful arrangement of flowering bulbs in your lawn. Futa offers a list of things to take into consideration before planting: when is it okay to mow down the leaves, the bulb budget, checking the neighborhood covenants and the scale of the garden.
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