Are we all ignoring bulbs?

3 months ago

Here we are, in September with bulb catalogues having been out for months and not a sniff of a post on here or on 'bulbs'. I always considered bulbs to be the easy-peasy, sure-fire gardener's friends and although I am drastically cutting back on my orders (because the kitchen floor is minging and HAS to be dealt with)...but I still have a coupla hundred or so on order, including another go-round with spendy eremurus. Have also drastically changed the scope of my (ahem) mini-meadow and decided on a spring 'flowering mead' with much earlier strimmer action after the anemones have gone over, so added another 100 'Shogun tulips and coupla hundred small narcissus. And some ornithogalum (dubium) for the greenhouse. And maybe add another 200 species tulips on my daughter's order in the next week or so if I am not too rocked back by the kitchen costs.

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katob Z6ish, NE Pa

2 months ago

I’m going to try and act somewhat normal on this topic although bulbs might be one of my favorite things to grow, and I might have a few more than I need.

Soooo yeah, I can’t even think of any bulbs I’ve purchased this year and not all of that can be chalked up to a bad memory or denial. I’m even going to brag and say that for once I actually remembered to dig the bulbs I wanted to, and gave away nearly all the daffodils, and for a minute even considered giving away some tulips… but snapped out of that rather quickly!

I did trade for some snowdrops and now have a bunch of new ones to plant, as well as colchicums so there are new things going in this fall.

Camassia are a great group of plants for a springtime show, but here in Pa they rarely last much longer than a week, even shorter if we run into one of those freak May heat waves.

woody I love the simplicity of your planting and the classic white daffs, I always throw too many things in and it ends up looking very ’exuberant’ ;)

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