cheap thrills

went to walmart, and they had spring bulbs blooming. I picked up a pot of daffies ,and I know the ppl in lawn and garden must have thought I had lost my mind, but i just BREATHED. I had forgotten that smell...it made my insides smile. Try it,----it might not cure what ails you, but its a cheap thrill!!!! Cheryl

Cheryl,
we will have about 5000 or so bulbs in bloom at work soon..I love it when they bloom indoors...really makes spring come sooner. :-)

I am bulb obsessed! I have more than I could ever plant but still I buy more. I never get over the miracle of such beautiful blooms growing from such ugly little things.

Kell,
To get tulips to grow around here you have to put them in the fridge for 6-8 weeks and then I have to make sure RonBob doesn't eat them in the mean time. LOL

Glory.....:-) That would be a lot of work in my book. Here we plant them in the fall and by spring the critters have eaten them. I gave up on bulbs a long time ago.

S,
Yes, I agree...that is a lot of work for such a short blooming time. I'll stick to Brugs. LOL

I've been out planting bulbs today. I still have a fridge full... I can't wait until Spring but I'm killing my back planting all these bulbs. Hyacinths are my favorites.

Wow eclipse where do you work? Each year, I get a bunch of walmart sacks,my muddy shoes, a shovel, and I go into the country.---well down the road lolol. and find where old houses once stood and dig up the daffies, and crocus, and hyacynith and anything else that has straps beginning to poke up thru the soil. I plant them even tho most dont bloom the same year, but for free bulbs, you cant complain. My husband keeps telling me the cops are gonna get me,---so I guess Ill make up a fake badge/photo I.D. and claim to be part of the flower relocation department.

play, what happened to the houses that were there? So the bulbs outlasted the house?

kell in the south, termites especially in rural areas are ravenous. Either those homes burned, or fell down, farmers used them for farmhands, and as bigger large scale farming equipment came along,---the extra workers moved off and the houses were abandon. I often wonder when I find a patch of suprise lillies, spider lillies or daffies about the ppl who planted those bulbs, and what that person was thinking about on the day they planted them?--I like to think that they would be pleased that their flowers made a mark on the world long after they were gone.:) Now that Ive said that--watch me be haunted by an angry garden ghost.

wow......hungry termites!

Here in GA, we see lots of lonely old chimnys in the country. We call them Sherman's Sentinals, because many old homesteads were burned during the civil war. We live in Jonesboro where over 3000 died in a battle here for the railroad. This is the town where Scarlett O'Hara supposedly lived. The author of "Gone With the Wind" went to our local courthouse to check records to make the story as accurate as possible, changing names of course. We are about 20 mi South of Atlanta and Sherman's troops burned a swath 60 mi wide from Atlanta to the sea in Savannah.

I have gone several times to a field near us that is loaded with daffs to rescue them from horses that just trample them - I did get permission from the owners tho. Mine are starting to peek up now, have seen them blooming in the snow in Feb. Cheap thrill for sure!

Tulips are another story, I won't waste any more $ or energy on them, they do well the first year, then they poop out, between the chipmonks and grubs - they are not worth the trouble.

*waving*