The sun is shinning, the bulbs are popping through the ground, my lillies are already starting to come up. I'm having a hard time not getting out and pulling the mulch off the beds.
What coming up in your beds? Spring is just around the bend.
I want to see pictures of all the wonderful new bulbs everyone planted last fall this is the only bulb blooming now. Cheating a little bit, cause its inside.. but its a bulb, and its blooming, and its almost spring... HA!
Hmmmm, I didn't think anything was coming up yet! I'll have to go take a look around...
Gwen
I have all sorts (20-30) of Paperwhites ..... aka .. Narcissus poking up in my garden next to the foundation of our home. Apparently the ground is warmer there and the garden is protected from the low temperatures. We've been experiencing low temps in the teens lately for the last few weeks ...... last nght just 13 f degrees. We had a week or so of 40 degree days and warmer nights above freezing which resulted in some of the bulbs being tricked into sprouting. I wish our crocus bulbs had survived. I planted them in a lousy spot and they died a year ago about this time.
The groundhog predicts an early bloom! I love that little rodent LOL. I have early tulips and daffs poking through, sweet woodruff growing but not blooming ( can't anything kill it? we are down into the low 20's at night here,) hellebores chewed off by deer :( and the indestructible wild chrysanthemum springing up everywhere. Sedums are going to town, asters showing green, and the early onion-smelling bulbs whose name I cannot remember are also well up from the ground.
One of my 8 or 10 containers with bulbs - all are showing good life (and a few crocuses blooming in this one).
And a sweet little Viola blossom - the local garden center was throwing out four flats of pansies and violas . . . I latched onto them in a heartbeat. Only a few have to be tossed into the compost. They were also getting rid of all sorts of ornamental grasses and a few odds and ends . . . I grabbed them all up in a heartbeat!!! I always stop around in back to pick up their empty pots, but this was the first time they had a huge amount of throwaways!
And Patty's Plum Poppy getting started . . .
I realize the poppy and the viola are not bulbs as the thread suggests, but I wanted to share anyway!
Utilizing the "distressed toss outs" from carts at the local nurseries headed to the dumpster is something I'm going to get into once I have a small truck. Our soil needs all the help It can receive. If I can get a few free plants ... thats a boonus. I'm going to collect the dirt and mulch from the pots to empty into the garden spots. Anything and everything I can add would be a significant improvement to the current condition of our garden topsoil.
Photographer, I'm doing the same thing - any pots that have dead plants and dirt go directly onto the (sort of) lasagna garden I have going along my "creek." And you would not believe the mess my car is from stuffing all that stuff into it . . . and I had a wheelchair in it to boot (for one of my clients)!
