Bulbs should be planted as soon as the ground is cool. In most parts of the country, this would be around the time of the first frosts, when evening temperatures average between 40° to 50° F. But you should plant at least six weeks before the ground freezes. Look for bulbs that are plump and firm. It’s typically best to avoid bulbs that are soft and mushy or have mold growing on them. Also look for big bulbs; the bigger they are, the more they generally bloom compared to smaller bulbs of the same variety. The bulbs need the chill factor they will acquire during the winter months in order to bloom in the spring.

Summer flowering bulbs on the other hand need to be dug up this fall, or they will rot if they acquire too many cold hours. Dahlias and gladiolas need to be dug up and stored in a cool, but not freezing, dark space.

From 21st Century Science and Health:

The worldwide thinking that matter/energy has life, results in thinking death is a law. So, people, cells, jellyfish, and flowers are supposed to die. But the fact remains, that God’s universe is spiritual and indestructible.

Spirituality causes people to turn naturally from temporal wave/particles to eternal Spirit, as the flower turns from darkness to light.

The only intelligence or substance of a thought, a seed, or a flower is God, the creator of it. Mind is the Soul of all. Mind is Life, Truth, and Love which governs all.

Though the grass seems to wither and the flower to fade, they reappear. Erase the figures which express numbers, silence the tones of music, give the human being called person to the bacteria, and yet the producing, governing divine Principle lives on, in the case of people as truly as in the case of numbers and music.