NDSU Extension agent Carrie Knutson shares that gladiolus flowers are not hardy to our area, but their corm can be dug up and stored to plant the next year. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Read Today's Paper ...

Many plants use underground parts known as bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers to store carbohydrates for use during difficult conditions. Plants that have an underground storage organ are called ...

Bulbs, corms and rhizomes, native or not, are all monocots, plants that produce a single leaf on the first shoot and have flower parts usually in threes or multiples of three.

Although we haven’t had a killing frost so far, you should be preparing to winter-store those beautiful tender perennials — the cannas, the dahlias, the gladioli and others.Look for a cool ...

Bulb or corm? Before you can multiply a bulb, you have to know if what you have in hand really is a bulb. Some so-called bulbs, such as crocus and gladiolus, are in fact corms, which are just ...

Gladiolus has been selected by the National Garden Bureau (NGB) as the bulb crop in its “Year of 2022” series even though it grows from corms and not bulbs. Founded in 1920, NGB is the not-for ...

Q: I just bought some bulbs of a flower called Grecian windflower at a closeout sale and the picture shows a daisylike bloom in colors of lavender and white. The package says to plant the tubers 1 ...

Plant the right bulb (or its close cousin, the corm) and success is almost guaranteed. The beginnings of spring’s flowers and leaves are folded up inside these compact packages. Plant them at ...

There is something sneakily special about bulbs and corms. Invariably, they surprise and delight when they decide, and in their own good time, to burst into life and start blooming. (If any of the ...

While I’m categorizing all of these as “bulbs,” some of these plants grow from tubers, corms and rhizomes. Some are perennials and can be planted in the ground in your garden.

Small corms should be spaced 4 inches apart; large corms 6 inches apart. Corm clumps will naturalize easily and should be divided in the fall every few years. Lily ‒ summer and fall blooming bulb.

Other flowering plants that develop from corms are gladioli, and cyclamen. Saffron crocus grows in USDA zones 6-9. Plant bulbs flat side down 4 inches apart and 4 inches deep in well-drained soil ...