I am SO annoyed (or worse)!

The first of the supposedly white Casa Blanca oriental lilies I ordered from the coop last fall is starting to open, and it is not Casa Blanca! (and I planted NO other bulbs in that bed)

Here's another from the 15 casa blanca's I bought. Clearly NOT a casa blanca oriental lily either!

I believe mine by that name never even came up. I had several not even come up. Some of the ones that have come up are wrong and even mixed. LOL Hmph!

Forgot to say, scroll down several entries to the 'fall co-op pictures" or something like that.

Darius,
I saw this just as I was going to post. My Casa Blanca are not them either. I had been wanting Casa Blanca for a long time but here is what I got.

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I wonder where the mix-up happened?? Regardless, I am NOT a Happy Camper.

Diane, I am not sure which you got but there are two red ones on the site. One is Commander in Chief and I cannot think of the name of the second. I posted it on the thread I mentioned above though. At least maybe you can put the right name on them.

It is very dark. It sure is a long way from white which is what I paid for and wanted. It is pretty though but really did want the casa blanca.

Most of all I got in this co-op were the wrong varieties, too. I must admit though it's been kind of fun waiting to see what'll pop up next.

I did have several though that never bloomed a few that simply rotted in the ground without ever showing any green. That I was rather perturbed about. (Fortunately it was $27 worth.)

Has anyone ordered from Bloomingbulb http://www.bloomingbulb.com/ before? I wonder if we all wrote them and let them know what we got if they would stand behind our bulbs adn make it right?

The WatchDog has them rated at 88% with 21 posts. Of those, there were 24 positives, 2 neutrals, 3 negatives. Maybe contacting them as a group might help.

I've already forgotten who did this co-op, but the letter should come from the organizer.

I think it was Alice Knapp, who (I read somewhere else) has moved and gone to live with a daughter and has no computer at present. My stuff didn't come up either and my position was not to care, however, seeing that there is a number of people whose stuff wasn't right, I will join a group that might want to approach Bloomingbulb about this. If nothing else, to let them know there are/might be irregularities they need to look into. It might be that the right thing is to contact DG admin and seek their guidance as to how to handle this. Whatever the protocol, I would join if the number of problems is significant.

It would be nice if others who did get their orders right would comment in this thread, so we could see if there are really as many discrepancies/problems as it appears. 2-3 voices in a coop of 50+ (or however many) doesn't represent "big problems", IMHO. Others, please speak up.

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None of my lilies (new or established) have started blooming yet although many have buds so it is too early for me to tell which ones I have.

Yes, I think it's still a bit early for some to know what they really got. Only 2 of my 15 have opened blooms. The rest await...

Up above in this thread, Badseed said

I had some interesting results. This is a picture of Francois. None of the lilies have bloomed for me yet. I was going to write it off...

This thread in the lily forum has more people with mislabeled lilies from the Bloomingbulb co-op.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/522460/#new

A number of mine have been mislabled. I will keep track of the rest as they bloom and let you know.
Susan

I had quite a few that did not come up at all plus 2 mislabeled so far from the fall co-op.
Help! I'll keep track of mine too. Who is goimng to head this up? Was the sorting fault of the co-op or blooming bulb? It was a HUGE co-op.

Wanda, I read somewhere this co-op got over 7,000 bulbs from Bloomingbulb. If we can start to get some significant numbers of mis-labelling, I'll be glad to contact them. So far, I only see a handful of folks posting mis-labelled bulbs:

lincolnitess
NoH2O (still haven't bloomed, so unknown)
Moby
mystic (??)
Badseed
makshi
darius
dstartz
ownedbycats

If I have missed someone, please post on this thread!!

If I remember correctly, the Francois was in the Blooming bulb sealed package. It was not opened by Alice as they were sold in 10 bulb "lots". If you see the picture above, not only are they not yellow, but there are 3 different tulips there. I also got a stray red one in another package.

I also had a lot of lilies not come up - but it seems to be in 1 location (specifically half of a bed) so I'm pretty sure the chipmucks got those.

Maybe a post on the co-op thread itself would be helpful. Co-op participants with mislabeled bulbs might not have seen these threads but may still have the original co-op threads selected to 'watch'.

Hmmm, good idea.

it was a good idea, I was watching to post to hear news of alice's return and saw your post there darius.

I too have some mislabeled bulbs, the saloam daffodil bulbs were actually the common yellow ones, the lilies I bought from her now have blooms but not opened yet, and I don't know if I'd know if they were true to their names or not. but I"ll try to stay on top of it and let you know what they look like when they bloom, maybe post pics of the flowers to their names and maybe you guys can tell if their right or wrong.

This was supposed to be 'Tropical Dream'. Whatever it is, it looked very pale when it opened and just got worse as the day went on. These are both the same lily, only 1 day apart on bloom time.

Edited to say: All of my bulbs were in packages labled by Blooming Bulb. So far, everything else was labeled correctly......'Tom Pouce' hasn't opened yet though.

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Hey! Just saw this thread! Well, I ordered 3 different colors of tulips - 2 were right, one not. The bad thing was I really wanted this 2 tulip 'combo' for the look. Didn't work out so hot - I think I took a pic - it's at home.

My lilies haven't all opened yet but of the ones that had I had a big giant RED one in the midst of my white! It's a yellow/white/burgandy bed so it was a bit odd. I cut it and brought it in the house. I can't remember my order anymore though - although I am pretty sure I didn't order just one red bulb! LOL

Nicole

I do remember reading for us to try and label what/where we planted so we could report back any errors..

None of my species tulips opened up, and I was so disappointed. I'll have to check to see about my lilies.

I forgot some of my mixed up tulips came from this co op too. I didn't worry too much about them since I didn't even mark them by name, but I do care about the lilies. I will have to go back to the co op thread and check exactly which bulbs were from the co op and which ones were from other places.

Susan

Found my order. I didn't go back and check the site to be sure but I don't think I any of these are red...

20 #2016 Daffodil-Mt. Hood .44 = $8.80
5 #20130 Daylily-Whimsical 1.53=$7.65
15 #1103 Tulip-Negrita .32=$4.80
15 #1022 Tulip-Shirley .36=$5.40---------------was not shirley
10 #1118 Tulip-Duke of Wellington .36=$3.60
10 #1019 Tulip-Queen of the night .35=3.50
5 #20306 Asiatic Lily-Endless Love .56=$2.80
10 #20207 Oriental Lily-Casa Blanca 1.44=$14.40

Thanks, y'all. Hope we get some more... safety in numbers.

I know lots of mine still have no plants growing beside the marker, and the fritillaria are rotten. I dug those up.

I can't remember the other ones, but I'll take a look and get back to you. The ones that have come up mostly haven't bloomed yet, but I'll keep tract of them and see what I have. Or don't have.

Now I gotta find my list from that coop so I can be sure I remember what I did order.

I'm not sure of any mislabeling. I do know none of the 30 Sky Blue Ixies have come up, maybe only 6 of the 10 hyacinths have come up, and they were very poor performers.

All the Alliums, total of 60 came up last fall. None of them have ever had any blooms so don't know if they were the right ones.

I have some strangers in the bed that grew from bulbs. They look like lilies I think, but I didn't order any lilies in the coop. (Maybe someone gave me bulbs at the KY RU, but I thought all those were Naked Ladies)

Do you know or shall I post this in ID forum?

Molly

Darius,

How about we start a thread, possibly on the bulbs forum, where everyone with incorrect blooms/faulty bulbs can post their order and make necessary notations?

Sure... go for it! I'll change my post on the co-op forum (sending them here) when you do.

Molly, those ARE a lily but the name escapes me at the moment.

Look like asiatics to me.

Yeah, they look that way to me too. I can't claim a mishandling on them for the coop, I didn't order any of those and can't quite figure out where they came from.

:^)))

Ah, THAT's the word! I HATE it when my brain loses a word, LOL.

My brain does that A LOT, Darius! LOL

Just did a quick look see through the gardens with my coop list, then looked at my notes in my journal.

This is what I've come up with:

All the tulips ordered have bloomed and were correct.

None of the daffodils came up

The peonies are up, but most likely won't bloom for a year of two, so no way to know if they are correct or not.

The asiatic lily I ordered, 'Grand Cru' has flower buds forming, so I should know shortly on that one.

None of the orionpets came up, and I just dug them up and they are rotten.

The Fritallaeria was rotten a couple weeks ago when I dug around looking for it.

OH, and my Mt. Hood Daffodils had yellow in the middles. Didn't think they were supposed to but not sure!

I don't think I can hold Bloomingbulb responsible for the ones that didn't come up and rotted. Might have been our cold wet spring that did that.

2 of my 'Carnaval de Nice' tulips didn't come up, but I think it was my fault....that location doesn't drain well. The others came up true to name though.