Jules, do you go along with the notion that its a weather problem...affecting all the plants--and then only all the buds? You haven't said just what the age of these bulbs are---is this a new planting--a year old---or maybe one that is an aged number. Just what might cause a bulb to not proceed to bloom--or to stop the production of bud after getting started. What might cause any plant to not proceed to bloom. The first impulse is to blame the plant. Were these bulbs all bought at the same time, from the same place. There are natural causes that can affect bulbs and if one bulb at one dealer sells a bulb that is poorly produced, then one suspects any and all bulbs he sells might also be similarly badly produced. Did you do something that caused the bulb to stop producing after the foliage came up. Last year, did you perhaps cut the foliage down right after bloom, causing the bulb to not proceed to take sugars and starches down into the bulb so it could produce the next year..(this year) Twenty-one days is a reliable time to allow AFTER bloom for the foliage to be cut back and the juices sent down into the bulb. To blame weather would suggest all areas you have the bulbs planted were affected in the same way...on all the bulbs. Me, I think you should examine the bulb--dig up a few and see if roots have formed naturally-- When you planted them can make for a healthy bulb to proceed to roots. If they didn't produce sufficient roots, they cant produce sufficient growth---and may have just enough to proceed to foliage...but not enough to get to bloom stage. Since I take it they were plnated all at the same time, then this possibility has merit....I think. Suggstion. Buy some new bulbs from a different source...buy the biggest bulbs you can find --the bigger, the better. Plant them among the other bulbs.....see if anything different happens.

Liable to be a flowering crabapple.

This is a plume type of Celosia with red blooms. The catalog description says it has scarlet leaves. Have any of you grown it? Here is a link that might be useful: Celosia 'Red Flame'

I have a sweetgum and a live oak from the program. They have been in the ground 2 years and both are doing very well. This is a great program! I would love to get a red bud this year but just don't know where to put it. I keep threatening to start planting in my neighbor's yard and this might be the year to do that!