Bulbs: I am new to ALLIUMS, 0 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Wait for Christophii. I had the same experience. I thought it was gone. I bought some more. I gave three to a friend who said that two disappeared. I brought over two more. The next year there were five. I find that they sometimes "skip a year" the first time you put them in. But if you dig down you will find the bulbs. The other trick - don't deadhead them. But I think that you will find that next year they appear.

Here are some pictures of chionodoxa in bloom to help with your identification. You noted that they face upward. It's one way of telling them from scilla aka squils - chionodoxa faces upward, which is why I thought it would "Pop" better.

Pic. 1 alba (well, yeah!)

Pic. 2 Pink Giant (MUCH bigger than the white). If you look in the bottom right corner you will see a couple of white ones for comparison. You can also see that they naturalize like mad, which is delightful.

Pic. 3 Sardensis, which is a bright, small dark blue. As you can see, I used to use it in my peony beds. They are photographing much lighter than they are.

All of them naturalize, by the way. I put a few of the white ones at the base of a tree and they delighted me by forming a ring almost entirely around the tree in a few years.