The Darwin Impression tulips, or Darwin Holland Glory are ones that will last a number of years in your cutting garden. I also put in a row of Drumstick Allium a few years ago and they make excellent additions to bouquets - perfect for a cutting garden. They come back every year and have slim tall strong stems - nice for flower arranging.

I usually order only from van engelen/john scheepers, but this year I'm trying a couple of new ones, touch of nature and high country gardens, for some fall flowering bulbs, that ve/js don't carry. Some of my purchases in the past have been from a local dutch bulb importer at their retail location. They have always had good stock at a very reasonable price, but last fall's purchases performed very poorly, so I'm skipping them this year. Also purchased 100 daffs from cosco this week, a couple of new varieties that I don't have. They are large, firm bulbs, so we shall see how they perform. Have never purchased bulbs from them or sams or any other big box store before, but others have and were completely satisfied. Rb

Hi Jenn. How are you?? I don't need more daff's but I'm going to email you just to say hi.

That's why I always want spring to come each year so badly, as soon as everything greens up the garden turns unbelievably lovely. Plus you know how it is in spring, there is always something going on in the garden. Nancy, thank you for the ID on my double daff. I am going to leave it be, even though I remember it flopping on the ground last year also, because I think it is very pretty. I still can't believe I bought those uglies. Daffs are usually so pretty LOL! I think this will be a good year for lilies here as they are coming up all over the place with nice strong growth. I put about 12 groupings of extra fancy lilies in last spring and they should look really good this year. You know they take that first year to settle in. Plus afew more just singles or doubles of some more lillies. I do love lillies. I used to have a big stand of the Oriental lillies out front that these new ones are replacements for. Only the old stand was much larger than what I put in now. It will have to do this way I think as I don't feel it would look good if I extended the lily area over more. I have Tiger lilies too, old ones been here since I was a child. Were here when my parents bought the house.