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to replant when the season marches on. Anything you dug up can be returned to the garden with time to reacclimate after you finish admiring its splendor inside your home. Even if you have no access to a garden, this is when local nurseries are your allies. Vendors know we're all flower-starved, and they stock everything from primroses to potted bulbs for your vernal pleasure. In fact, before spring has sprung, you can get first dibs on the season by buying forced bulbs when the garden is still buried in snow. Potted daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, grape hyacinths, anemones, ranunculus, and even some of the rarer "minor" bulbs like fritillaria are available for early birds. Snowdrops love to be dug and divided while they are still in flower. Again, after entertaining them in your home sweet home, add flowers that bloom in the spring to your garden when the ground thaws. But don't wait too long before planting them outside. Most bulbs and ephemerals (plants that perform and then die back) prefer to slip into their normal cycle as soon as possible. When hosting spring's performers indoors, get maximum bang for your buck by keeping the plants cool. If you habitually crank up your heat, find a spot that isn't so toasty to prolong the performance duration by several days. A suggestion: Nestling your potted spring preview close to windowpanes gives them the breath of fresh air they crave. And of course, drafty New England homes are a cakewalk for these winter-hardy nuggets. Feel free to grow them in your barely heated breezeway or spare room with the thermostat turned down. cultivate