Kilobulb Planters 2013

Thanks cathy. The deer here are leaving the tulips alone for now. I had to cover the pansies with deer netting in areas where the Bloomsday day tulips are planted. The deer were feasting on the pansies, and totally ate all the pansies in the bed closer to the sidewalk before I could cover them. I also have the pleasure of having rabbits that like to dine as well ;~)

Love it !

Annette, your bulbs are wonderful! Your tulips are about 2-3 weeks ahead of ours. The daffodils and narcissus are just starting to bloom here on the prairie, but as you can see, the tulips are starting to grow.

Leawood, what lovely gardens you have! What grows in them after the tulips?

Oh yes, let those tulips grow. We love the spring show.

LG, your garden architecture is amazing. I need to work on that now that I've got a lot of plants filling the beds. The most I have is a few bird baths. I love your columns, and your vases and the stone paths that add dimension to your garden. Just beautiful!You have an astounding amount of tulips that are about to bloom, which is going to be gorgeus, what a treat for the neighbors and passers by. I'm sure your garden stops traffic ;~)

Annette

The borders are shady, so they contain plants that can take some shade - allium (because they bloom early), daylilies, oriental and trumpet lilies, hostas and a few annuals I sprinkle in for color later in the season. The large beds of tulips come up after they finish blooming and I put annuals in the beds for the summer. I save and store the tulips in my basement, then re-plant in the fall. The bed with the large urns is all sun-loving plants - iris, daylilies, peonies, delphinium, lilies, phlox, roses, coneflower, hollyhocks, etc.

Annette, I was outside working this morning and the neighborhood dogwalkers and joggers all greeted me with compliments and words of encouragement. I always tell folks they are welcome to step into the garden, if they are interested. I'm planning a neighborhood 'tour' in a few weeks, then the bulbs are in bloom.

Cem, I was scrolling up to re-enjoy photos, and I think I totally missed your question earlier about rabbits & crocuses. They do eat some of the tops of the leaves and an occasional bud, but I usually get blooms... except on the large-flowering types. Those just disappear into the ground and are never heard from again. I suspect squirrels or voles find them tasty. I planted 1000 out back -- the first year I tried them here! -- and I got a couple dozen blooms that first year. This year, I think I've seen 4. The snow crocus & sibs seem more critter-resistant.

OK, you all "got" me with all the talk of Gudoschnick tulips. I'm going to do a group buy for our local MA gardeners, and our supplier has them. They're on my to-get list now. :-)

What I truely love about the Gudoshnik tulips is that they are variable. The blooms have varying degrees of color and pattern so they don't all look the same. Yet the entire planting goes together exceptionally well. Plus they have come back strongly for me now on their third year. I love tulips that come back year after year.

I am in the Netherlands and hoping to find some bulbs in bloom, but the very cold spring has seemed to have delayed everything. I may have to be content with just seeing blooming bulbs in the market from the greenhouse growers. Sad, but still enjoying the trip. I saw a small stand of N.Tete a Tete yesterday in a garden and another stand today in a park along with 4 little blooming crocus, but no a tulip in bloom so far. Patti

Hi Patti, I hope you get to see some nice blooms while you're there. I guess we are not the only ones affected by this cold wet spring this year. All of the plants are behind in their blooming schedule, compared to the last few years.

I checked specifically for tulips that have returned from years past, and I found a lot of Pink Impression blooms under the cherry trees which were last planted in 2010. I also planted Blushing Lady in 2011, so I'll be interested to see if it comes back in this area.

Some Gudoschnick is coming back in the area that I planted it with Sancere , in 2011. The tulips have taken off since our weather has finally started to warm up.

Late last spring, I dug up and saved some of the tulips from the Parrot mix after they finished blooming, and saved them for replanting last fall. I'm thrilled to say that they are growing fine, and I'm going to get some blooms from them this year. Thanks for the idea for doing this LeawoodGardener.

I also have tulip Clusiana var Chrysantha that has come back. I didn't see any blooming in this area last year, I thought the critters had gotten all of the 100 bulbs that I planted in 2010.

Picture #4 is another Gudoschnick bloom, I love the variety of colors in this tulip.

Picture #5 is Narcissus Tripartite, which is finally starting to open some blooms

Nice blooms. I love tulips that come back year after year. It is always great to have some of those. But I figgure I will probably replant my Bloomsday and parrot mixes that I got from Colorblends. I am way too lazy to dig them up so I will be ordering new ones and replanting.

Early daffs are in full swing!! I've been trying to take bloom shots that also give a sense of the clumps and sweeps of blooms out there. :-)

Ice King, Las Vegas, Curly, February Gold, Ice Follies

N 'Cassatta', then additional shots of 'Ice King', 'Curly', and 'Ice Follies'

And I just have to post this one twice, because I think it was my "shot of the day." LOL

Beautiful daff shots. I planted February Gold last fall and it is not blooming yet for me. Comming up though. More and more daffs are starting to bloom here also. Each day I walk the garden and see more open blooms.

We had heavy rain last night, which beat down some of my daffodils, but the bulbs in this bed didn't seem to have been affected. These are 'Improved King Alfred'

And soooo, the blooms begins !!!! Just beautiful Jill, your daffodils are looking great.

LG, your Improved King Alfreds are also very pretty.

The weather has gone crazy again in GA, due to our too warm weather, we're expected to have severe thunderstorms this evening, and tonight. We are presently under a tornado warning. I ran around the garden like a mad woman taking pictures before the rains started. I fear my blooms are going to be destroyed by the strong winds expected. So here goes, the front garden first. The Kwanzan cherry trees went from nothing to blooming in a matter of days.

Here are the front and back views of the trees found blooming today. They are underplanted with the Gudoschnick, Pink Impression, and Blushing Lady. I love this time of year when the cherry trees and tulips are blooming at the same time.

The Bloomsday tulip mix is also making an appearance amongst the pansies. This is by the walkway leading to the front door. The majority of them haven't opened yet.

This bed is at the beginning of the walkway. Then some individual blooms of the peony tulips. I love spring!!!!

Hyacinthoides Excelsior is also starting to bloom, I have it in pots, then various places, including behind the tulip c. var Chrysantha, behing Dutch iris Apollo, and Narcissus Tripartite.

Random blooms. More Apollo, N. Hawera, and the the last 2 from the pink daff mix.

Everything looks so nice. I especially the way you have the tulips around the chery trees and the shrub.

Thanks Rita. Did you get the email from Colorblends today? They're now taking reservations for fall orders.

No, I didn't receive one. I sure should have as I bought a lot of bulbs from them last year. I think I will go look at the updated website. But I am not yet ready to order. I want to see those mixes I got last year from them bloom and see what I think of the real thing.

I took a look at their website. Was I surprised to find that it is probably less than 10 miles away. I always like to support local vendors.

cathy I have location envy, first Cricket Hill, now Colorblends, that's just not right, LOL.

I'm doing my Colorblends order now, I want to make sure I get the bulbs I want, I've grown the ones I'm ordering before. I was disappointed when I couldn't get the Parrot mix last year, because I waited so late to order. I'm also loving their Moris Gudanov, the double form of Gudoschnick, ooohhhh my!!!!

Annette, your blooms are gorgeous! The tulips and narcissus around your cherry trees are especially nice - I really like the pine straw mulch you use. Do you have tall pine trees or do you buy it?

Thanks LG, and I purchase the pine straw in bales. We do have some pine trees, but we wouldn't get enough from them to put down in the garden.

I wish they sold pine straw around here but it seems to be a southern thing.

Trying to catch up on some pictures. Here goes.

Some crocus.


It was dissapointing that I planted 500 of the large flowered crocus mix in my southside rose garden between the roses and the darn squirrels dug just about every one up. So I will replant this fall, plant them deeper and much right away so that those squirrels don't see them.

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crocus Ruby Giant. I love this one! New this spring for me.

daff york minister and maria

greiggii division tulip Sundance in my backyard daylily bed

species tulip humilis violacea. The crocus tulip. Mine is black base. I bought them at Colorblends. Scheepers has one that is yellow base. Apparently there are varius offshoots of these offered.

Here is my front yard were those crocus tulips are in the very front row between clumps of daylilies.

The daffodils in the terraces at the back of those prior pictures.

more daffs around the yard