Miscellaneous spring bulbs

[Lori S.]

Just more of the common stuff... but the thought of it does get me through the winter!  

Chionodoxa luciliae including 'Pink Giant' and 'Alba' and Iris reticulata:
     

Muscari azureum are slowing starting to naturalize:


The daffodils are starting to bloom... here's one of the first clumps of Narcissus 'Téte-á-téte':


Tulipa uremiensis:

 
Do you think I need to plant more Scilla sibirica?  
 

[WimB]

Common or not, it's very nice...all that spring color.

[cohan]

I believe more and more that the spring flowers are the most important ones, certainly in this climate!

[Hoy]

Lori, I think you should plant more S sibiraca - of other proveniences - then you'll get even more selfsowing

[AmyO]

Flowering here now; the very good smelling  Sauromatum venosum

Wim...I just dumped a huge pot of Sauromatum and there were literally dozens of bulbs of all different sizes! I sorted them out and potted them up into corresponding pots for sale later in the season. What a very cool bulb!

[WimB]

Flowering here now; the very good smelling  Sauromatum venosum

Wim...I just dumped a huge pot of Sauromatum and there were literally dozens of bulbs of all different sizes! I sorted them out and potted them up into corresponding pots for sale later in the season. What a very cool bulb!

Cool, it multiplies VERY quickly over here too, I have it for 10 years now and I have enough bulbs to stink up the entire neighbourhood    I give some away to friends every year and I plant some out in the garden (they survive in our climate when grown in the warmest spot in the garden against a southfacing wall)

[externmed]

Order arrived today form (Paul Christian) Rare Bulbs.  Definitely worth checking out www.rarebulbs.co.uk

So far, with  2 orders, they seem to have perfected hassle-free overseas shipping.  Great quality.

Worth checking out

Charles Swanson MA USA

[McDonough]

Order arrived today form (Paul Christian) Rare Bulbs.  Definitely worth checking out www.rarebulbs.co.uk

So far, with  2 orders, they seem to have perfected hassle-free overseas shipping.  Great quality.

Worth checking out

Charles Swanson MA USA

Charles, please tempt us by telling about some of the goodies you ordered.

[Hoy]

I have used Paul Christian for several years and he always delivers on time and good quality plants. I got some nice (and rather expensive) Frits last week but something dug up and ate all the bulbs during the first night I had planted the bulbs on the shed roof too to avoid slugs >

[McDonough]

I have used Paul Christian for several years and he always delivers on time and good quality plants. I got some nice (and rather expensive) Frits last week but something dug up and ate all the bulbs during the first night I had planted the bulbs on the shed roof too to avoid slugs >

My goodness Trond, what A sad development.  You might have to cover your bulbs with wire mesh in the future to protect them, or as some people do, plant them in sunken wire "baskets" so that the protected bulbs can be lifted and divided somewhere down the road.  The squirrels and chipmunks are working overtime right now at peak acorn season, digging a billion little holes in the yard to bury the acorns, so I worry about their incessant diggings too.

[RickR]

I got some nice (and rather expensive) Frits last week but something dug up and ate all the bulbs during the first night I had planted the bulbs on the shed roof too to avoid slugs >

I think we have all had that experience at least once.  I had collected some wild seedlings of native sassafras from a northern outpost in Illinois one autumn.  The big, fat buds must have been very scrumptious...

[Hoy]

Rick, had it only been once. . .
Mark, you said it! I believed some kind of rodent were to blame, but we have had an invasion of squirrels the last weeks ravaging the crop of hazelnuts. Certainly they like bulbs too