Hi, ladies. I have a gardening question re: bulbs and I'm hoping someone can help!
Our wedding will be in April of next year (2013), and I love, love, love fresh flowers. In working with our (tight) budget, a lot of the flowers for the decorations will be potted instead of cut / arranged -- we hit a Walmart sale on bulbs and will get some flats of pansies as soon as they hit the stores (we'll pot them individually and use them in baskets with florist moss for the reception). FI and I spent the afternoon clearing out my three biggest container-gardening pots and planting tulip bulbs that (hopefully!) will provide decor for our outdoor ceremony. They are "mid bloom"-ers, so they should be blooming right around the end of April when we need them.
I have two more packages of bulbs that I would very much like to use, but they are "early bloom"-ers (grape hyacinths and paperwhite narcissus). I'm wondering whether there is a way to tweak when they bloom? Around here, they're usually up and blooming in March if left to their own devices.
I've found some internet resources on forcing them to bloom early, but hoping there's something I/we can do to delay blooming until closer to the wedding date? They'll be in pots, and therefore mobile, if I need to stick them in the back of a closet away from sunlight or something like that, lol.
Thank you for any help you can offer!