Send me your list of seeds if you'd be interested in some grape hyacinth bulbs. They are very prolific and amongst the first things to bloom after winter. Xtal

No. There is no difference at all. But do incorporate a bit of bulb food, not bonemeal; to your soil at the time of planting. Mix it in well with the soil before planting. Bonemeal tends to attract critters who can dig up the garden. Don't go wild; follow the directions on your food packaging. Then, when the bulbs start to flower, add a bit more to sustain and nourish the bulb; and once again at the end of the flowering season. This encourages a healthy, plump, and well-fed bulb for next year's flowering.

I am looking for parrot tulips or ice cream tulips also looking for bright colored lilies, asiatic lilies, anything different in bulbs... For postage... Please

Anything will be better than what you have now. You can put 4 cool bulbs - and it will work, or mix them 2 and 2. Since T12s are getting phased out - you can replace your fixtures with a 2 T8 fixture as well. Again - you can mix cool white and warm white or use 2 cool whites. Or you can replace it with an LED fixture - Costco has the shoplights for 29.95. To some extent it depends on how cold is your basement - if it is on a cool side - probably keeping fluorescents is better - they do warm the room. LEDs is barely warm to touch. If you want to try T8s - you need to change the fixture - the ballasts are different . In my experience - do NOT buy fixtures in Walmart - they are the cheapest but they do not last. If you have an old style wide reflector fixtures... investing in a new ballast and switchng to T8s makes sense. Then you can keep only one fixture per shelf. Irina, the rewiring hobbyist.