How to Grow Better Bulbs

Snacking after the bulbs have sprouted is another matter. In a garden where herbivorous animals — including deer, rabbits, squirrels, gophers, chipmunks, mice and voles — are active, Ms. Elms said, “There is definitely the do-not-plant list, like tulips and lilies, and also the nobody-ever-touches-these list, headed by daffodils.” Snowflakes (Leucojum), like Narcissus, usually go…

A Better Way to Grow Bulbs

Snacking after the bulbs have sprouted is another matter. In a garden where herbivorous animals — including deer, rabbits, squirrels, gophers, chipmunks, mice and voles — are active, Ms. Elms said, “There is definitely the do-not-plant list, like tulips and lilies, and also the nobody-ever-touches-these list, headed by daffodils.” Snowflakes (Leucojum), like Narcissus, usually go…

We Have Reached Peak ‘Exercise Dress’

“Just being outside is a workout today,” Arianna Gaujean, 18, said while browsing the sale rack at Awoke Vintage in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It was a scorching July evening and Ms. Gaujean, a student at St. Francis College, was wearing a short black racer-back dress — the ideal garment, she said, for doing just about anything…