none. my score for last year:

ordered 10 snowdrops; one came up. no bloom.

ordered 8 persian pearl tulips; all came up, all bloomed.

ordered one double record amaryllis; got a philadelphia (mislabelled) instead. replacement coming.

ordered one melusine amaryllis; it arrived with rot, bloomed and died. replacement coming.

ordered 5 stones lilies; 4 came up. first one is going to bloom any minute now and looks like it's going to be orange instead of red, but i'm keeping my fingers crossed.

nope, no more mail order for me. i'll just get stuff on a whim at the local nursery where i can palpate the bulbs ahead of time and pick out healthy looking ones.

I am planning to order some amaryllis bulbs, but only three, at least that's the plan anyway. After seeing Hans-Werner's "Giraffe" photos I definately want one for myself. I would also like a "Charisma". I ordered several last year, but the bulbs I received were mislabeled and I ended up with a bunch of "Clowns" instead. They were pretty, but not what I had wanted. I haven't decided what the other bulb should be. We also wanted to get some bulbs for our yard, but aren't quite sure where to start! -t.r.s.

I HATE companies that don't charge at the time of the order.

When I place an order it is because I have the money NOW!

I'm always worried that I might have some other big expense when they ship them and not have sufficient funds in my account.

I have not ordered yet. I probably will at the end of July or early August.

Xanadu - John Scheepers has very, very nice daffodils and narcissus. I guess you could consider them both tulip and narcissi specialists. Their bulbs I received last year, had at least 2-3 necks on them, and the spring flowering was marvelous. I would call them and talk to them about Thalia. If something happens with their bulbs, I've heard they are very good and subsituting or crediting or returning. Van Engelen is their sister company, if you wanted to order bulk, and very reasonably priced. You definitely get what you pay for with them. I don't recall if they credited my account at the time of order or not (I've slept since then).

Janet - did you order L. 'Stones' from JS? I did, and they came up orange, but they were so beautiful that I didn't have the heart to complain about them. I was satisfied with what I got, and I will order it again.

I am going to try The Lily Garden this year, though. I really am into lilies right now, as well as aroids.

Is zone 7a too cold for perennial amarylis?

Susan

susanlynne--I killed Hippeastrum 'San Antonio Rose' which might or might not be hardy in Zone 7A. I put it in a very protected spot (closer to Zone 8 in that particular microclimate), and I have no idea what went wrong.

I ordered some from Latvia for next spring:

Fritillaria imperialis aureomarginata: yellow stripe form
Fritillaria imperialis argenteovariegata: white stripe form
Fritillaria meleagroides Giant FormÂ: 2x normal size
Fritillaria fleischeriana
Fritillaria camschatcenis ÂFlora PlenaÂ: Double flower form

I also just got in my order from South Africa:

Eucomis autumnalis (12 different variants including one with yellow striped leaves)
Eucomis comosa
Eucomis humilis
Eucomis vandermerwii
Eucomis (several other species)
Nerine krigei

I've got coming from Australia in about a month:

Amorphophallus galbra
Dracontium sp.
Ambon lily (Proiphys sp.)

I'll do my ordering from Thailand, India and China a bit later in the year.

Always fun to get in really exotic stuff form around the world that just isn't available from your local stores or maybe even anywhere in the U.S.

Happy ordering everyone :o) Dan

Wow, Dan....do you have any problems with plants entering the country - I mean, do they unpackage everything and check it out? I had this happen to a friend, and they totally destroyed her plants.

I used to be a member of the Begonia Club (no, not those silly things that everybody's mother plants as annuals). Very exotic ones. I grew the new species that were collected by botanists in the field from New Guinea, Panama, China, Australia, all over. It was such fun, and I got acquainted with a lot of people all over the world.

I might like to to do this if you could post some instructions and tips on this forum! Do you have a greenhouse, or do you have a microclimate(s) in your yard where you can winter them over outside? Sounds absolutely fascinating. I love the rare and unusual.

Susan

Dan--and I thought *I* was bonkers when it came to Zone denial and exotic selections...You got me beat by a mile! I am, however, fool enough to try growing unusual (native and South African and Asian) bulbs (and perennials) from seed. This is my first year messing with seeds, and it's a LOT of fun.

Hi Susan,

Importing is trivial, despite what sometimes gets written on these forums. I import from a host of countries every year and do not have problems. All you need is an import permit number which can be obtained by filling out the form from this web site: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/permits/plantproducts/nursery.html Fill out the form PPQ587. It takes perhaps 5 minutes and you are done. You do not need to be all inclusive by the way. My form orignally only had India and Arisaema and Amorphophallus on it. I now import from around the world legally. I talked to the people at the APHIS office in the USDA and they confirmed I was fine. Anything else you hear is nonsense. Of course, the country of origin needs to provide a phytosanitary certificate which varies greatly in price ($5 in Latvia to $100 in Australia). If you have any questions at all please just ask me and I'll do my best to help out in any way.

By the way, I imported a Begonia for the heck of it last fall....tuberous.....it is growing now, but I have no clue at all about it....perhaps I can send you a pic once it has more leaves and you can tell me what it is!!! I also got some Begonia in from India last year for a guy in Alaska (picta and xanthina).

ljrmiller.....Yeah, I'm big into zone denial.....I have many, many pots and simply let them go dormant for the winter like they would in their own climate anyway. I can only imagine your patience in growing them from seed. Something I've never had in abundance!!! It is sooooo cheap to import the bulbs and tubers that I just do that. I'm really into the aroids (Arisaema, Amorphophallus, Dracontium, Pseudodracontium), but I also try other things like my new found addiction to the various forms of Eucomis (I tried to get people on this forum to go in with me for a South African order a few months back by the way and got zero takers....oh well).

Happy importing :o) Dan

Thanks, Dan, I'll do that. Also, do you have a list of reputable sources?

I recall picta; believe it is a terrarium plant. Do not recall xanthina, so it must be a new discovery or could be something to do with nomenclature. If this person really likes to grow begonias from seed, the easiest and cheapest way is to join the American Begonia Society. They collect seed and sell them for like $2.00 for tons of seed. Also, getting involved in the round robins will get him/her free seed in trades.

Susan

P.S. You mean there is more to Eucomis than the common green pineapple lily and burgandy one sold in the big box stores?

Hi Susan, I do not know one Begonia from another to be honest. I've got a total of 1 plant for the entire genus!! I guess some of the ones from India are pretty uncommon so he wants rhizomes/tubers that he can pass along at the Begonia Society shows.

Eucomis....yeah, they can be somewhat variable I guess. I'll post some pics of mine once they grow and bloom, but still, most are for people that like having somthing that no one else has as opposed to having a stunner in the garden.....vandermerwii is a beautiful dwarf for a pot though and humilis is a rather uncommon species that is quite pretty.....I can not wait to see the variegated one....a new discovery this year so I feel very fortunate to have it to try. One of the real easy plants to grow so I like them for that reason if nothing else :o) Dan

Hello,
I have just joined this forum. I have been thinking about ordering bulbs for fall planting but haven't decided on what I am going to get yet. Decisions, decisions.....lol
I am wanting to redo a whole flower bed where I have my iris's and columbines.... It could get very interesting. :o)

I haven't ordered but have a growing list and now it's even longer after reading this thread. hehe.

:-)

Catalogs are addictive, aren't they? And it is very interesting to see other people's orders & wish list. I found a lot of common interest here for I have quite a few of the ones mentioned.

I told myself I would not order as many bulbs as usual. I want to extend my blooming season, so I ordered very early and late blooming bulbs. I also want miniatures since I have no more room for large ones.

Here goes:
-Allium hollandicum 'Purple sensation'
-Allium cristophii
-Colchicum 'Giant'
-Colchicum 'Water lily'
-Fritillaria meleagris
-Dutch Iris 'Oriental Beauty'
-Dwarf Iris danfordiae
-Tulip 'Ballerina' - lily flowering
-Tulip 'Fantasy' - parrot
-Tulip 'Little Beauty'
-Tulip 'Monsella' - early double
-Tulip 'West Point' - lily flowering
-Tulip Impression collection - Giant Darwin
-Tulip species mixture
-Narcissi 'Jetfire'
-Narcissi 'Little Gem'
-Narcissi 'Rijnveld Early Sensation'
-Narcissi 'Tete-a-tete'

I might add as I read the posts here and as I read the entries in catalogs. LOL.

Dan, that sounds really interesting. I too am into zonal denial. I never thought about ordering from outside the country myself.

Alex, all I can say is go for it!!! You may spend an inordinate amount of time looking for sources, but once you find some they can deliver awesome bulbs at prices usually much lower than here in the states. You can also find stuff not available here as well. However, one word of caution. If you are ordering stuff that is prone to rot like I do (Arisaema, Amorphophallus, Pseudodracontium, etc.) then always order more than you want since you will likely lose some in transit. Also, depending on phyto fees, etc. you may want to order quite a few to make it worth your while or go in with someone that you know for a larger order. I ordered approximately 500 pounds of tubers/bulbs this past spring so my costs end up being very low. Happy growing in zone denial :o) Dan

500 pounds--wow, that is a lot! And I thought my Brent & Becky's order was heavy, but it might have been 15 pounds. Do you have a lot of land for all that? I've crammed my front yard full and am looking at the backyard now. I love hymenocallis and eucomis (have comosas) already, would love to know what other varieties are available in them. I like the unusual.

Do you have any vendors that you would care to share the name of? I've begun looking around but so far haven't found anyone who has the variety of eucomis that you've found. I've had some BAD mail-order experiences with US companies--Brent & Becky's 1/2 price sale and good reviews finally coaxed me into trying them this year--so it never occurred me to look farther afield. The world is an oyster.....

susanlynne--yup, they bloomed while i was out of town. orange. i'm going to call JS just to let them know they still have the problem with these bulbs.

I ordered from JS and VE this past weekend. I still need to place my BB order.

Here are the tulips I ordered.
Apricot Parrot, Barcelona, Douglas Baader, Esther, Hermione, Jan Ohms, JoAnn, Maywonder, Negrita, New Design,
Ollioules, Peach Blossom, & Pink Impression

And crocus Majestic Lavender Mix, hyacinth City of Haarlem & hyacinth Sky Jacket

Ree

I think I'm hopeless. Old House Gardens published their Hortus Bulborum list, and I simply couldn't live without:

Parrot tulips (all 17th-18th c. varieties) 'Amiral de Constantinople', 'Markgraaf van Baden' and 'Perfecta'.

19th-c. tulips 'Gloria Nigrorum', 'Lord Stanley', and 'Koh-I-Noor'.

Gladiolus byzantinus

And then, because just because, from Odyssey Bulbs:

Colchicum 'Dandaels', Arisaema candidissimum 'Pink Form', and Crocus tommasinianus 'Lavender Striped'.

Oh. And some Zephyranthes primulinus from Yucca Do.

Why do I have the feeling that crystal meth would be less addictive and less expensive? ;-D

But bulbs won't end you up in prison!

Fellow bulb and plant addict Alex_z7

Every year dh and I plant between 1,000-1,500 bulbs. But this year, we had a new barn built, so I didn't want to tie up my autumn with bulb digging. So orders were modest this year from Brent & Becky's and Van Engelen.

50 erythronium "Pagoda"
50 allium atropupureum
50 narcissus "Winston Churchill"
50 narcissus "Fragrant Rose"
100 narcissus "Ice Follies"
100 narcissus "Tahiti"

I am also hoping to get in another 10 peonies. We'll see.

Hi All
I still haven't ordered but you should see the printout waiting. Do you think you have it bad? I'm looking at 2000 tulips and they are annuals for us. And my husband is enabling. I'm torn between going for it (well, might elminate some) and waiting to see what shows up in the big box stores in a few weeks. Yes, I did swear off those last year when I saw the difference but....

ljrmiller: I had not heard of Odyssey bulbs, do you have any other interesting specialties? I assume that if you can grow them in NV I can grow them near Dallas. Any exciting things you love and that return???

Dan Wow! You are amazing. AND in PA. Love that zonal denial. I'll bet you have lots of tips if you have time to stand up and share.

All I love reading this thread every year. Y'all enable me...to know that I'm not alone

cynthia

cynthia--

First a couple of caveats about Northern Nevada: It is VERY dry here. We have had humidity in the single digits off and on for the past month. We get an average of 7" rainfall PER YEAR. In short, I lose very little to rot or fungal problems. Also, our nighttime temperatures are from 30 to 40 degrees colder than daytime highs. Today it's in the mid-90's outside. It will be under 60 degrees not too long after the sun goes down. Between the dry summers and winters and the cold nights year round, I can grow a lot more things than one might expect.

The downside in my climate is that we also have a VERY short growing season. Even though there is an official final frost date around Memorial Day, and supposedly the freezes don't start up again until late September, we can reliably count on a snowstorm in the nearby Sierra Nevadas nearly every summer, with correspondingly chilly temperatures down here "in the valley". Our soil never really warms up, and my pond water definitely doesn't.

But with all that said--I focus on Crocus, Iris, Tulips and Colchicums from Odyssey Bulbs. Colchicums multiply so easily and provide color in October and November just before the garden gets really desolate.

I like species tulips--there are a few species which should come back year after year even in Dallas. Tulipa sylvestris comes to mind. Okay, so it's small, with small yellow-greenish flowers that bloom almost with the crocuses, but it IS a tulip :-) My favorite tulips are Tulipa vvedenskyi (try saying THAT three times quickly!), a 55-mph bright red species tulip, and the antique tulip varieties from Old House Gardens. The OHG antiques might be a bit too pricey to use as annuals, though--one of my most recent choices is $26.00 for a single bulb.

I also have a weakness for daffodils, especially antique varieties. They have all been good doers for me. There are some, like St. Keverne, which are renowned for doing well in warmer climates.

I tried Erythroniums for the first time this year--I like them a lot, and will be adding to my incipient collection.

I grow a few Cyclamen as well, and I try to add one or two every year. Most are Cyclamen coum or Cyclamen hederifolium varieties.

I plunged headfirst into fall-blooming Crocus after seeing them in England last November. I've put in Crocus sativus (the saffron crocus) and Crocus speciosus so far, with more ordered this Fall.

I love lilies, and the Orienpets are spectacular performers. They need staking in my jungly garden, though.

I ordered quite a few California and Western native bulbs to try this year--no idea how that will go: Calochortus, Fritillaria, Lilium and Allium species feature on that list.

Ahh...forget it! If it hasn't piqued my interest yet, it WILL. I've been bitten by the Aroid bug after fighting it for at least 5 years. I resisted Gladioli until this year, and now I Must Have More for my cutting garden planters. I'm trying Crocosmia, too. I planted Rhodophiala bifida last fall--I wonder what will come of those. I planted a Crinum, and it's sent up lots of big strappy leaves.

That's not even counting the herbaceous perennials I've found so charming :-)

Thanks ljrmiller
that is quite a variety. There are some that I don't know but will be searching when I leave here

I really enjoy the big Lucifer crocosmia. I like the smaller variety I have too, but the big one is really showy. It has returned twice now and I consider it an orchid for the simple gardener...which would be me. This year I have it butted up against salvia black and blue (guarantica)

I tried the calochortus and found them interesting but they weren't happy where I put them. Not a problem for you because I put them in the moist bed with azaleas. Those that made it were really interesting and I plant to try some another place this year.

My favorite glads are the tiny to because they don't need to be staked. But they are all so showy and easy.

Thank you for taking the time to post this. I'm off to learn what some of them look like.
smiles
cynthia

Oooh! I LOVE the image of Salvia 'Black and Blue' and a fiery red Crocosmia! I'll have to try that next Spring.

Okay, so I'm going to be moving probably in summer 2007, so I'm trying to hold myself back. I planted a bunch of allium, tulips and dafs last fall. So this year I ordered from Becky & Brent (bbbulbs.com).
Tulipa's, China Town, Donna Bella, Oratorio & Red Riding Hood (Oh, yes these WILL be moving w/me) and for some color around the dead of winter, Papilio Butterfly and Picotee Amaryllis... (I do have a list at Logee's I'm whittling down)... I just love growing things!

Has anyone seen early tulip Gold Coin and lily flowered tulip Dynito for sale anywhere? I googled them but get nowhere.

Hi everyone -
I'm new to this forum and just wanted to say that you're making me drool!! Tulips and Daffodils and all, oh my!

I didn't order ANYTHING, yet.
Waiting for Costco's displays to appear, have a first pick and order only after I know what I could get on cheapo.

Flowergirl, Bluestone offers Gold Coin.
Can't find Dynito.

Tulips91, you came to the right place. Also checkout the Lilies forum. You'll drool even more. :-D The frenzy hasn't even started yet, you know. :-)

Well, my Fritillaria came in from Latvia and are all potted up and ready to go!!! My Proiphys that I got in from Australia is already putting up growth as are the Dracontium gigas, etc. I also got a couple of species Hippeastrum from my friend down under and an incredible H. reticulatum v. striatifolium!!! Finally, I also stopped in to see a friend on the way to the beach in NC and picked up some wonderful Amorphophallus (pygameus, saururus, sizemoreae, haematospadix and atroviridis) and some unnamed Pseudodracontium....just doesn't get any better than that :o) Dan

Deep Breath
We ordered today. These all go in my front yard and I'll supplement with some cheapo ones from Sam's
100 each tulips
Bellona; Parade; Golden parade; Daydream; Gudoshnik; Holland's glory; Apricot impression; Pink impression; Kingsblood; La courtine; Dordogne; Avignon.
200 Orange bowl
50 Greggi casa grande
giant anemones:
100 De Caen, 200 His Excellency, 100 Rosea
3 amaryllis Royal Velvet
3 amaryllis Elvas

I think here begins the "fall" planting frenzy. :-) Time to brace ourselves, bulb lovers.

EGO45, So, have you picked up the bulbs from the box stores yet? Today, I went to haul mulch instead and tried to stay way from any box stores. Liar. Went to a wedding yesterday. Stopped at HD between the church wedding and receptions.... :-D ..... and picked up Hosta 'June'. :-P Didn't check out bulbs. Honest.

bluebonsai, I am excited for you. It must be a great week. Keep us posted on your bulbs. I would love to see photos of your new arrivals.

Cynthia, Great choices. You must have a huge garden to be able to fit all those bulbs in. You will have a cheerful looking front garden next spring. I planted Parade; Golden parade; Pink impression last year and Kingsblood a few years back and still have several of the latter left.

I have been eyeing Dordonge, Gudoshnik, Daydream and Holland's Glory. Just can't figure out where to plant them if I go ahead and add them to my order.

Giant anemones and amaryllis can't withstand our winter. I'll just drool over when you post their pics next spring. :-D

Dan, is there anything you DON'T grow? LOL! I'd forgot you posted on the bulbs forum, too. Haven't ordered anything yet, but on my MUST HAVE list is Lilium 'Silk Road' and 'Latvia'. When you said your frit bloomed FROM Latvia, I thought at first you meant your frit bloomed IN your Latvia. I love the lilies that look like they've been spray-painted lightly.

Janet - my 'Stones' came up orange as well, but I loved it so much, I didn't complain. I'm just mush when it comes to lilies. They did very well in my partially shade back yard, and the foliage was just as stunning. I've never seen such BIG stems (diameter). JS bulbs are great. I don't think lilies are their specialty, so expect to get some mix-ups. I'm going to order my 'Silk Road' from The Lily Garden. I just drool when I look at their pics.

BonBon - when you move, will you still be in Kansas?

Susan

Hi Susan, I'm a sucker for anything that is tough to grow and Frits definately fall into that category in my climate!! We shall see how it goes :o) Dan

'Silk Road'. Great choice. I planted 3 last year and 3 more this spring. Most gorgeous and fragrant late bloomer. You'll love it. :-) I am hoping mine will multiply. Greedy, greedy.

well i'm getting a replacement batch of stones from JS so i'll plant those and see what happens next year. (if they're orange i'm going to be royally peeved.)

otherwise i've still got persian pearl tulips in the ground from last spring, so hopefully they'll actually naturalize and i won't have to dig up the stupid tulip bed every year. :-)

I ordered a few more things from Bluestone (50% off selections): Crocus cartwrightianus, Lilium 'Pink Perfection' (trumpet variety) and Narcissus 'Audubon' plus a pile of assorted perennials. Telos Rare Bulbs had sold out of Fritillaria recurva and F. affinis, so I asked them to send me Lilium parryi and Allium tolmiei as substitutes, then placed an order with Jane McCrary for the F. recurva, F. eastwoodiae, Galanthus fosteri, Galanthus reginae-olgae, Muscari chalusicum, Muscari pallens, and Muscari racemosum--I'll see what I actually receive (she only has very limited quantities).

Then I stopped by Lowe's on the way home from work. My favorite potting soil in 2 cu. ft bags on clearance for less than 7 bucks a bag: SCORE! I'll get more tonight. Parrot Tulip Rococco for the containers out front, Tall Bearded Iris 'Champagne Elegance' and a package of 4 ferns.

Boy. My good resolutions didn't last 24 hours. TODAY I went to Home Depot during lunch. 18 Single Late Tulip 'Greuze', 18 Single Early Tulip 'Prinses Irene', Tall Bearded Iris 'Autumn Circus'. Again, the tulips are for my containers out front. Never let it be said that I have good taste when it comes to my containers :-)

Hey--at least I didn't buy a bag of 50(?) Narcissus 'Fortune' because I don't have ROOM for 50 more "generic" daffodils!

Hey, hey, hey!!! Surely we are not hinting that my beloved Princess Irene is not the very essence of good taste???!!! Why I have a hundred such princesses strewn about come spring! Lovely in every way! Last year some deep purple-y blue bronze-y ajuga crept in from a neighbor's bed and bloomed so stunningly beside her I didn't have the heart to rip his weedy heart out.

I can't believe it's already September & my order is still in dream stages, hope you Van Engelen folks have left me something! I used to order around a thousand a year, inc many small bulbs. This year I'll just do a couple hundred. (Famous last words!)

I try to be reasonable but it's just not my strong suit.

ljrmiller, your containers sound lovely, perhaps I should plan some myself this year as I'm running out of actual soil...

athomein1914: I LOVE 'Prinses Irene', but I can't prevent myself from planting it in combination with black tulips ('Greuze') and usually 55-mph vermillion ones like 'Juan'. That's what I mean by "no taste"--if it doesn't jar your senses I must have done something wrong :-)

Looking forward to those photos! Are your containers also jarring?

I like a lot of color in the spring, it's such a wakeup. Maybe I'll do something garishly wonderful in a container this year thanks to your inspiration. I haven't potted bulbs in forever.

Never let it be said that I am without enthusiasm. I just received the following from a specialty bulb grower:

Fritillaria recurva (which I'd hoped to get through Telos but they were sold out)

Fritillaria eastwoodiae (another red-flowered California native Fritillaria)

Galanthus fosteri

Galanthus reginae-olgae

Muscari chalusicum

Muscari pallens

Still remaining to order from: Far West Bulb Farm--they don't have their list up yet for this year.

My Colchicum from B&B is arriving this Friday. :-D

I'm going to plant all the true blue bulbs I can get my greedy little hands on! I'm a blue freak, what can I say???

Argh. The bulb-buying itch just won't leave me ALONE! I placed an order with Far West Bulb Farms for several Calochortus species, several Erythronium species, and Allium peninsulare. Not content with that, I just placed another order with Brent and Becky's for Arum Italicum, Erythronium dens-canis, Narcissus 'Hawera' and Allium schubertii. And oops--I forgot--a couple weeks ago I sent off my Lily Garden order for three each of 'Liberty Hyde Bailey', 'Viva' and 'Copper Crown', and Old House Gardens "got" me again for Tulip 'Cafe Brun' (an antique Parrot), Tulip 'Dillenburg', Narcissus bulbocodium and Narcissus 'Firetail'. That doesn't count the little odds and ends I picked up at a local nursery: Muscari comosum, Narcissus 'Goose Green' and Lilium pumilum.

Argh is right, especially when you have to plant them! Remeber now that the more you order, the more holes you have to dig.

I am saying this because I am going through it now. :-D
My 2300+ bulbs arrived from VE. I still expect 100 more from B&B.

I was going to plant them at the temple where I volunteer my gardening work, but something happenned last week that had me hopping mad so I am stuffing them in my tiny garden. I took off yesterday from work to plant bulbs. I still have not made a dent. By 4:00 PM, I was so tired, I could hardly walk. I'll have a go at it again after getting off the GW. :-P

pitimpinai, I went through the thousands-of-bulbs thing last year. This year it's only hundreds. For one thing, I'm out of room for thousands more--I have to play "junior archaeologist" any time I plant ANYTHING to make sure I don't slice into something wonderful and dormant.

The other thing is that planting is about the best "buns of steel" exercise I've found. Actually, too good. Last fall, in late November, when I went for a monthly hormone injection in my backside, I was so tight that the needle started to bend! I don't plan to bend any needles this year.

My Scheepers, Old House Gardens, Lily Garden, B&B and Odyssey Bulbs mostly haven't arrived yet. The early orders came (Colchicum, fall-blooming crocus, some species lilies, stuff like that) and were promptly planted. It looks like the planting will begin in earnest next weekend, when those orders start arriving!

Lisa