Coaxing Flower Bulbs: Resources

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Web Sites

The Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center
This site, Bulb.com, features all you'd ever want to know about flower bulbs, and then some. Check out their Bulb Forcing Table. It lists the chilling requirements and weeks to bloom of 18 species of bulbs used for forcing. Use this information to plan planting dates and predict blossom times.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips
The Hazen-White/St. Francis Middle School's site is a treasure chest of tulip trivia, history, and science. Their showpiece is the story of their bulb-forcing project, including step-by-step instructions, and photos of their bulbs' progress.

Journey North: Tulips
Through this exemplary international plant study project students plant tulips each fall. Classes then share observations with others via the Internet and follow the progression of spring northward.

School Courtyard Daffodils
The Garden Club of Shelter Island planted representative varieties of the 13 distinctive groups of daffodils for students to enjoy and study.

The Story of Our Garden
Students in this Irish primary school share stories, art, and photos of their garden, including the magic of planting and enjoying bulbs.

Kids Growing with Dutch Bulbs Awards

Searching for a way to brighten your schoolyard? Each year, the National Gardening Association, sponsored by the Mailorder Gardening Association, awards 200 premium Dutch flower bulbs to hundreds of schools across the continental United States. A colorful selection of bulbs arrive in time for planting in the fall. Applications for the 2004 Kids Growing with Dutch Bulbs awards program will be available in January 2004. Stay tuned to our Grants Programs page.

Great Deals on Bulbs

Paperwhites for Indoor Forcing (Members get a 10% discount!)
These paperwhites produce clusters of aromatic white blossoms in just 4 to 6 weeks. The set of 25 bulbs comes with a teaching guide titled Enriching Classrooms with Flower Bulbs. It features bulb-related curriculum activities in art, science, math, geography, and economics for grades K-12. Click here for details.

Deep Discounts on Bulb Collections
(Members get an additional 10% discount!)
Collections of tulips, daffodils, crocus's, and other spring-flowering bulbs are on sale at the Kidsgardening Store. Have your students plant them this fall and predict when they'll emerge in the spring. Click here for details.

Fundraising with Bulbs

Looking for a "healthy" and alluring option for raising funds for your school? NGA is proud to endorse the Dutch Gardens Bulb Fundraising Program. Dutch Gardens, which has marketed top-quality bulbs since 1908, has selected beautiful, easy-to-grow varieties of tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, and other spring flowering bulbs for this program. And it's a good deal to boot; your school gets to keep 50% of the profits. Although the fall fundraising program deadlines have past, you can still request a Bulb Fundraising Kit. When you do so, you will be put on a list to be notified as soon as the next round begins.