Bulbs: Lets honour all our other spring treasures..., 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Thanks for showing your pretty bulbs, Dale!
The rain lilies are adorable, I like the pink with green.
Not so found though of the mass plantation of tulips, the beauty and charm of the single flower gets lost.

Wallaby, according to my botany book, Corydalis lutea likes the soil to be alkaline, and your soil is rather acidic if I remember well. I've given mine some seaweed chalk and it loves it, but I think some pulverized brick stone mixed with the soil could do the same trick.

Yesterday was a very dull, rainy and chilly day with north-east winds, but today is very sunny and it feels warm, 16°C in the shadow and in the sun around 25°C.

Oh, it feels so good that the Oxalis is doing well with you! Thanks for posting its pict. Mine are not blooming yet, but have plenty of buds coming on.
It's a pity that I don't know its true name apart from being a type of O.articulata. I have even written a letter to that nursery in the South of France (they don't have a webpage) but found their address on the web. I got no response. It will bloom well into November.
Your Corydalis and Oxalis are doing fine too, they are all planted out in the garden, but not blooming yet.

This is I think Scilla siberica, I have since very long and it even tolerates quite shady conditions. I love that intense blue.