Again? It seems like yesterday....

The order came from Colorblends, so I know it's time. And it was beautifully packaged. And I ordered too many bulbs. It is also just starting to feel like autumn.

Planting Allium bulbs of all sizes, Chionodoxa (thanks, Donna Mack), Fritillaria and dwarf irises. And running around like crazy in anticipation of the frost. It will kill the Caladium plants, so the containers are overwintering indoors with the coleus and begonia plants. The kitchen floor looks like a forest.

I am sure Leawood, the Tulip King, has his work cut out for him. What will you do after planting your fall bulbs? We've got lots to look forward to in the spring.
Marcia

Sleep!

You are welcome!

Alliums (doing karatviense again - it was gorgeous, but the lawn guys kept whacking it), chionodoxa, camassia, ornithogalum nutans (gorgeous with the stems of Anastasia, but wow, they spread!) Or partying with the also aggressive anemone tomentosum (the anemone just appeared one day, and the bulb was sent by mistake), tulips, mostly double and multiflowering.

Now that all the peonies and roses are in (whew!) it's downhill sledding from here!

I got my Colorblends order 2 weeks ago. The bulbs are chilling in the fridge. I've got 400 tulips and 200 daffodils to plant. I'm not even going to mention the Van Engelen and Netherland Bulb Co orders that haven't arrived yet.

Oh, and I haven't begun to plant the 13 peony tubers, and I'm still waitng for another 3 Moonstone from Van Engelen. My Fina Gardens and OHG tubers are here. I've also still got 10 potted peony plants that also have to be planted.

So much to do, so little time. We have to take our DS on his official college visit this weekend, so there goes my gardening time. Oh well!

Sweetie, may I make a suggestion about the peonies? I planted only 8, plus some roses, and I found that a good way to handle the peonies is to dig the holes one day and plant the next, I find that if I try to dig and plant on the same day, that I get "dig fatigue" and don do as good a job. It does help that I needed to move five peonies earlier (too much shade/walnut bed).

Do you mean hat you have to plant 26 peonies?!!!!!!

Yep, 26 new plants for next spring. Make that 31 new plants, I've already planted the 7 tubers from Adelmans on Sept. 29th. The tubers sent from them were nice, healthy, with a good number of eyes. See the pic below.

Left to plant:
9 tubers from Fina Gardens
4 tubers from OHG
3 tubers from Van Engelen
10 plants in pots, 6 of them are mature, 4 of them I started from tubers, with 1 Festiva Maxima and 3 Vivids.

I plant the bulbs and peonies in stages, if I get home early from work, or if I have time on the weekends, so long as the ground is not frozen. I'll will continue to do so well into December. I've planted bulbs as late as January, and they've done fine.

Annette

Donna, do you know how late "late blooming" is for the caeruleum alliums? Yesterday (about 45 degrees) I noticed 3 new stems in the garden where I planted the bulbs last fall. They re about 6-8 inches high, growing like scallion foliage with a stalk in the center. I see the stalk, but don't see a bud of any kind.

I have noticed that when we get warm temperatures late in the year some bulbs stick their noses up. For me, crocuses and daffodils do it every year. Caeruleums bloom in the spring. When it cools down again, they will get with the program and stop coming up. And it will do them no harm, in my experience.

Muscari do it regardless of temperature it seems. Daffodils have always popped up in fall and two of the alliums have done it. I agree, no harm at all.