What bulbs will you order for fall planting?!

Hi, everybody--

Yes, it's time to get the bulb orders in and I'm wondering what everyone is adding to their collections...
It's hot and muggy here and it's hard to believe that fall bulb planting season will be here before too long.

Or at least fall bulb ordering season!

I've got several lilies coming in from the co-op and some siberian iris (do they count?) from another co-op and in the meantime I have been pouring over the catalogs looking for some new ideas and bulbs to fill in empty spaces--

So far--

Daffodil "Acropolis" 50 from Scheepers to bloom with the Azaleas.

And I am going to try a 'little blue bulbs' 'effect' in our woodsy backyard-- crocus 'tommies', hyacinthaea, scilla, chinodoxa from Scheepers/Van Engelen again (and I am following the advice of this Broadleigh Bulbs article). And I will order quite a few of these. I read somewhere to mix up the different kinds for a long season of bloom...

http://www.broadleighbulbs.co.uk/months/shady_characters.htm

Last year the tommies sold out before I got my order in--probably because they are supposedly squirrel resistant...mmm...I'm not sure about that though, but willing to give them a try.

http://www.johnscheepers.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=6615&_category=Website%20Specials

And I may order a few daffodils and try to enter them in the 'show' next spring. (We'll see about that.)

Other than those, I am keeping my fingers crossed that my Alliums come back from last year. And most of my daffs, of course.

What have you circled in the catalogs? Anything new? Share your ideas with us !

I'm partial to these:

http://www.colorblends.com/bulb/Temple%27s+Favourite,31,17

and these

http://www.bluestoneperennials.com/b/bp/BTUWF.html

I'm about to put in an estate order of about 500.

I ordered my first bulbs this past week. I'm just not sure where I'm going to put them. I ordered five iris bulbs, including two of the batik, from Iris Greens.

http://www.irisgreens.com/

I also plan to order tulips, daffodils, and crocuses.

Oh, dear, I'm always a sucker for tulip bulbs about now, although I'm ordering a few daffs too.

So far the tulip list includes Angelique
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2285/index.html

Elegant Lady
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/31480/index.html

Diana
http://store.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/spring/productview/index.php?sku=02-0111

Olympic Flame
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55545/index.html

and Czar Peter
http://store.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/spring/productview/index.php?sku=02-1317

You'll be happy to know they aren't all planned for the same bed! So far on the daffodil list the only one I have is Brackenhurst
http://store.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/spring/productview/index.php?sku=01-0269

I'm open for suggestions on a white daffodil. It's still only July and the list is that long! Last year I ordered about 400 bulbs in only six varieties.

I do love the Czar Peter also.

I ordered daffs from B&B
hyacinths thru JodyC's B&B coop
amaryllis thru ilovejesus' VE coop

http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/viewbycat.php?cat=40121
here are mine :)

voss-- you're being very conservative! But it's still early.

Hyblaean-- for some reason I couldn't read your link. What are you keeping secret?

absolutely nothing - i'd thought!?
but went and reclicked the public button anyway- can you see me now :)

I am going to definitely try these.they are really unusual and I like to plant at least one new variety of bulbs every year http://www.dutchgardens.com/Ice-Cream-Tulip/default/StandardCatalog.21551.30765B.cpd

Those are cool, cedar! A neighbor of my sister's has them. They're almost as great in person as the picture. (The pictures always look EXTRA good. LOL)

Those are really different Cedarnest-
What do you think of this combo McGlory?
I haven't tried it myself, but am ordering a different mix of Narcissus from the same grower
Narcissus All White Mix
This mix contains the white varieties from many classes for an average, four week bloom. Bulb size: DNII. April. 18" to 20". HZ: 3-7.

Catalog #8729

25/$18.75 50/$29.25
100/$49.75 500/$243.75
http://www.johnscheepers.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=8729&_category=Narcissi:NatMix

oh good lord, I do seem to be having link issues don't I? Still can't make it work- ok, If you go to this site:
http://www.johnscheepers.com/
click Flower Bulbs tab
then Narcissi
then Naturalizing Narcissi Mixtures
you will see three w/o a picture- it's the one labeled Narcissus All White Mix #8729
like I said, I haven't tried it, but the word Naturalizing usually gives me hope

Oh, I find Scheepers' links always quirky too and don't usually work but I found your white narcissi mix and I bet it will be great. I was thinking of getting some white ones to plant among my little blue bulb collection, too.

I like scheepers' collections...one year I bought their miniature daffs collection and that got me hooked on the little ones.

A white mix is a great idea. Get some variation in the blossom and continuity in the color. Only wish scheepers had a picture. :-( You'll have to take pics for the rest of us next spring, Hybl.

Actually, I'm getting the Narcissi Miniature Mix- also naturalizing. I was sending the all white link on to you :) Since you said you were open to suggestions on white daff. -I've run out of my own money this year, and still have the urge to purchase by proxy. My spouse is just not into gardening at all- so it's nice to be able to go "hey, look at this!" to a receptive audience.
This is my fall list (hopefully open to full access now) but if not- see list below. I think it's probably over kill, but since I'm new at this, I needed to maximize my chances of getting anything to bloom. :)
http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/viewbycat.php?cat=40121
Narcissi Miniature Mixture - 100 Scheepers
Blue Shades Anemone blanda- 100 B & B
Species Crocus Tricolor Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis- 50 B & B
Wood Hyacinth, Spanish Bluebell Excelsior Hyacinthoides non-scripta subsp. hispanica - 50 B & B
Reticulated Iris Harmony- 100 B & B
Siberian Squill mischtschenkoana- 10 B & B
Siberian Squill siberica- 50 B & B
Siberian Squill siberica 'Alba'- 10 B & B
Parrot Tulip Bright Parrot- 10 B & B
Fringed Tulip Davenport- 10 B & B
Double Late Tulip Double Dutch- 20 B & B
Parrot Tulip Flaming Parrot- 10 B & B
Triumph Tulip Helmar- 10 B & B
Species Tulip Little Princess- 50 B & B
Double Late Tulip Orange Princess- 20 B & B
Fosteriana Tulip Red Emperor- 50 Scheepers
Lily Flowering Tulip- Red Shine- 50 Scheepers
Lady Tulip- Tinka - 50 B & B

I be happy to post pics of anything that blooms. I'm loving the lily pictures that have been posted lately on the summer bulb thread. It's incredible!
How did the minis work in your garden, Tabasco? Are they easy? Do the worms eat them? I didn't have a single glad come into bloom this year due to little white worm things that were eating their bulbs, and making the foliage go brown. It was frustrating, but the lilies bloomed. I'm not sure which bulbs taste good to them and which don't? Still getting my feet wet.
Julie
here's a pic of my godzilla's (from Buggy Crazy) she gets all the credit for these looking good, I just stuck them in the ground.

Oh, yes, it's always easy to find one more enabler on the DG site. Today's award goes to Hyblaean. LOL!

Lily flowering tulips are wonderful! I only planted 60 last year, and I'm adding more this year.

Laugh, Thanks McGlory :D My mom and I no longer go shopping together for just that reason! Fun, but too, too dangerous. Luckily, and unhappily sometimes, our partners are the souls of moderation.

What did you like about the lily catagory that made you want to go back for more?
Does anyone else have a prefered tulip catagory for the Midwest?

There's some ambitious planning going on here! Can't wait to see the pics next spring!

re: the scheeper's miniature collection--I liked it a lot, but I wish I had read the fine print and researched the details about the most appropriate planting spot for each variety. Some are too tender for unprotected spots, some like a drier spot, some are really petite,....that sort of thing. I don't remember which cultivars I received in the collection and I have added many more so I can't be more specific. Some of them would be wonderful in rockgardens and terraces. Also pots.

About the tulips for the midwest, here in Cincinnati (if I can keep the deer away) I like the cultivars and species that bloom early--my theory is that then they will have less risk of 'blast' from a sudden heat wave. That may not work for you around Chicago with (too) cold springs.

I saw thousands of the 'Purissimas' (Emperors) blooming at the Cincinnati Zoo Tulip Festival at the end of April (available from Scheepers)

I am going to experiment with a bed planted with Princess Irenes, Purple Princes, and white chinodoxa 'giant' in a front bed (Van Engelen classified them as "Single Early" and recommended the combination so I thought I'd give it a try). http://www.johnscheepers.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Category&_category=Tulips

I love the petite and early Kaufannias and Greigiis and species tulips too, but I think they need a spot to show them off (like a terrace or rockery or a little door garden) and that I don't have here.

I have read that the beautiful tall late tulips are really for the cut flower market to be grown in greenhouses...I wonder if that is the way to go with them?...

Everybody's ideas are getting me excited!

I ordered some more bulbs from Bluestone Perennials. Chromacolor and Spring Pride pink daffodils and Harry's Memory pink tulips.

I want to get Pink Fountain fringed tulips, but the only place I can find that has it is van Bourgondien. And they have a lousy reputation on Garden Watchdog. Too bad, since I got their catalog and they have a lot of bulbs that I would dearly love to get. I may think about taking a chance on them anyway.

Now I have to get some raised beds set up!

Ordered from Van Engelen

Calla Lillies
Majestic Lavender Crocus Mix
Blue Magic Iris
Harmony Iris Reticulata
Naturalizing Nacissus (250)

Everything but the Daffs will go into large planters as we have a major chipmunk and bunny problem here...

Ordered some tulips from tulip world, also, but don't have my order in front of me... it's going to take a while to get this place covered in spring blooms, but I'm working on it! I miss my zone 9, but since I'm here in the frozen zone 6 (well, only in the 90*'s today), I thought I'd take advantage with the spring bulbs (cannas will winter indoors).

And also ordered Mt. Hood daffodils and more tulips from Dutch Gardens. Can't remember the name of the tulips off hand, but they were pretty pink and green ones.

Still can't find the Pink Fountain tulips.

High Country Gardens has some stuff that you soak the bulbs in before you plant them, supposed to make them unpalatable to thieving critters.

Ah, yes, High Country Gardens... they have many things that I covet there :-) Will have to look into the pre-soak, thanks!

http://www.bundlings.com/garden_tulips.htm

Check out these pics of Tulips blooming in the garden. I like that the gardener shows the whole flower and she also gives a little 'review' of each bulb.

FYI She reviews your 'Pink Fountains" which she got from Lowes...and are also available from Vesey's http://www.veseys.com/store.cfm?product=3966 and seem to be a variety available through the discount sources.

She's right. No fringe, though. And that's why I liked them.

Mislabeled, maybe?

I'm into pink tulips right now for some reason. Later I'll probably want blue tulips, or parrot tulips, or something else.

I have stuffed my garden with a few thousand bulbs every year for the past several years. So, this year I only ordered these:
VE:
-Tulip Ballerina 100
-Lilium regale album 5
- Lilium speciosum rubrum 5
- Iris Blue Magic 100
- Iris Oriental Beauty 100
Colorblends:
-Allium aflatunense 100
-Allium cristohpii 100
-Allium Globemaster 10
-Allium schubertii 5
-Fritillaria meleagris 100
-Narcissus Flight Time 50
-Narcissus Geranium 25
-Tulip French Blend Rose 100
-Tulip Parrot Blend 50
-Tulip turkestanica 100
-Scilla sibirica 100

So many people have recommended Colorblends, so I am going to give them a try. Most of these will go into a friend's garden, though; I really have no more room in my own. :-)

White Hydrangea - What about Fancy Frills? I've never ordered from the company that PF says carries it, but it's fringed and DEFINITELY pink!

http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/58231/

A few thousand bulbs every year, Pitim? I need to order way more! I haven't tried Allium yet.

This message was edited Aug 6, 2006 10:03 PM

Yup, Mc, a few thou a year - crazy is what I am. The last couple years I added a lot of minor bulbs, because there was/is no more room for major ones.

You have to try Alliums. They are good for bridging spring bulbs with perennials. Globemaster blooms the longest. Albopilosum/cristohphii provides the longest interest in the garden. The seedheads are fabulous:

100 Grand Trilliums
Trading some for Trillium Bloody Butcher
2 other Trilliums
29 assorted Paris

Piti-- if you are looking for a space to plant more giant allium you can use part of my yard! I love them too. LOL

I have been thumbing through the catalogs drooling at the tulips. I love them in subtle color echoes and contrasts with other bulbs in bloom at the same time. I think Colorblends was the first bulb company to market bulbs that way. though in the past two years it looks like the other bulb marketers caught on to showing bulbs with color partners and 'blends'--a la 'Colorblends'...

Thanks Tabasco! the bundlings site is wonderful- you really get a feel for what they might look like planted at home.

I saw a neat piture on WhiteFlower Farms site of drumstick allium with a red yarrow. So I'm going to try them among lots of orange and yellow marigolds. I'm also trying to naturalize Narcissus avalanche, Lady Jane tulips, and a bunch of Tommy crocus. Oh, and Ipheion Rolf Fiedler. These are from a Van Engelen co-op on DG

I'm adding bulbs to my Texas garden. I have ordered Grand Primo, Hoop Petticoat, Double Roman, Red Spider Lily's and Oxblood Lily all from the www.Southernbulbs.com

Southern bulbs has a 100% score, but only one entry. Maybe Teresa will post feedback on them?

Sure will as soon as I get them!

oooooo.... bulb season again! I sure wish those stupid deer would let me have
more tulips. I'm going for a lot more daffodils this year. I've got a long hillside that
has naturalized muscari & yellow buttercups that bloom each spring. Its a struggle
to mow the grass after the bloom is done but its worth the sight of the colors. I
tried red tulips there but the deer or squirrels got 'em all. So... this year:

Ipi Tombi
http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=8214&_category=Narcissi:LargeFlowering
Fortissimo
http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=8147&_category=Narcissi:LargeFlowering
Limbo
http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=8299&_category=Narcissi:LargeFlowering
Suzy
http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=8505&_category=Narcissi:Jonquilla

And I have to have some hawera - cute little yellow pretties
http://www.vanengelen.com/catview.cgi?_fn=Item&_recordnum=8192&_category=Narcissi:Triandrus

I'm looking at the colorblends catalog too. I may just try more tulips - perhaps find a spot I can protect from
the critters!

Tam

I've a bunch of different bulbs on order, but I don't want to go through the same thing I did with my zucchini. I've also ordered some bulb cages and some stuff that you soak bulbs in to make them unpalatable to thieving critters.

Hi White_Hydrangea, what did you buy to soak them in? Does anyone else have recommendations for a product that's been working for them?

Being a big fan of fruity, sunrise/sunset tones, single late tulip 'Temple of Beauty' and the sports from it (Blushing Lady, Blushing Beauty) are quite tempting. I've always had great performance from single late tulips, and have read several posts where members say they perennialize well.

tabasco, while I was in the cut flower business, triumph tulips were the ones most commonly used as cut flowers and potted plants (early singles are often forced in pots too). They've been bred for this and don't return well in the garden. The late singles have those wonderful long stems and large blooms, making them great for cut flower use. These are usually sold as "French tulips" in the cut flower market and usually cost 3X the price of triumphs. I've never had a problem with bud blast with them, but if we have a hot spring the blooms don't last very long, especially dark colors. If you have'nt tried any before, I'd recommend trying a few. The stems elongate as the blossoms develope, giving them a graceful, swaying in the breeze effect, unlike the sometimes stiff appearance of some of the shorter varieties.