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• ashley13 Posts: 162

  January 2020

   Where do you suggest i learn about bulbs and plants from?   I have a book called How to be a gardener by Alan Titchmarsh, i find the learning easy as it's easy reading but i dont think he talks about bulbs.

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  January 2020

  I think you need a botany textbook.
  

  
  

  There is a book called  RHS Botany for gardeners. 
  

  
  

  Another is called Botany for dummmies.  (I am not implying anything, not my title)

  
  

  another  ...
  

  How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do (Science for Gardeners) Kindle Edition

  by Linda Chalker-Scott (Author)

  
  

  All are available from Amazon co uk.   You may be able to borrow them or another Botany textbook from your local library.
  

  
  
  

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• yorkshirerose Posts: 574

  January 2020

  It may be worth while contacting a good bulb supplier.
  Taylors bulbs are a well established company based in Lincolnshire.
  I am sure if you emailed them asking for advice they would be very willing to help.
  
  
  
  https://taylors-bulbs.com/
  

  A gardener's work is never at an end  - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)

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• Mike Allen Posts: 208

  January 2020

  Hello Ashley.  Welcome to Gardeners world forum.  Truly it is great to hear that despite your life changing accident, you have discovered a brand new outlook and interest.

  
  

  I also have disabilities.  Never mind.  Gardening, horticulture is a great therapeutic fo many illnesses and disabilities.  Just a point.  There is a difference between scales and segemnts.

  
  

  Scales in the case of bulbs.  Generally this refers to lilium bulbs.  Although in their native lands.  Lily bulbs are often grown and eaten in a like manner to onions.  However there is a difference..  Scales in the case of liliums etc.  These are a cluster of fleshy parts.  You can take a lily bulb and seperate the scales.  Insert these in a compost and each scale will at it's basal point, reward you with several tiny new bulbs.  These can and are commercially grown on and become viable new bulbs.

  
  

  Most bulbs really are simply swollen roots, these, such a tulips snowdrops and even daffs, reproduce by providing off-shoots that can be broken away from the parent and grown on.

  
  

  In the case of suchlike.  Onions.  Although the bulb is made up of layer-like parts.  These are botanically called segments.  These segements are not known to reproduce.  However like daffs etc, some onions will produce side shoots that are baby onions.

  
  

  Ashley.  Please continue to enjoy gardening.  I truly wish you all the very best.
  

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• ashley13 Posts: 162

  January 2020 edited January 2020

  Hi i saw this book on amazon do you recommend it and will it help in my learning about plants?   https://www.amazon.co.uk/RHS-Botany-Gardeners-Gardening-Explained-ebook/dp/B0784QHZBV/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?cv_ct_cx=botony&keywords=botony&pd_rd_i=B0784QHZBV&pd_rd_r=c006b052-d779-42a2-ba1f-59f082173658&pd_rd_w=T39bU&pd_rd_wg=UEAxi&pf_rd_p=7dc56c0d-8a5f-4d97-9143-7233b106859a&pf_rd_r=6H5ERZ23JWXB1XES2D45&psc=1&qid=1580499142&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-718396de-69ac-46a0-9195-9669ab0086b2
  

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  January 2020

  Yes, I recommended that book.
  

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