Bulbs: I am new to ALLIUMS, 2 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Yes, sadly I stopped planting hyacinths too. All of mine were doubles. I had one double dark blue that actually cam back and multiplied each year, hyacinth King Codro. I was able to just leave them in the ground. But I moved them in pots and they did not survive. I could kick myself.

It was astounding. I started with 3 and ended up with more than a dozen. But the other doubles - Ben Nevis, which is white and Chestnut Flower, which is pink, fade down to nothing.

I did end up ordering more of my favorite and reliable daffs: Mount Hood the division 1 trumpet from Brent and Becky (from whom I ordered lots of chionodoxa and some allium oreophyllum) and Mrs. Backhouse, from Old House Gardens. It's the first "pink" historically. Mount Hood starts out with a slightly yellow cup and then turns all white. I took some of each from my old house and then remembered that they bloom early enough to plant in partial shade under trees.

I also had the habit of digging up my tulips and drying them. So I have a lot of turkestanica, a species tulip. Each year I have five or six more.

And I have enough spce in sun for 10 White Trumphinators. I can't resist those guys.