time to introduce myself

seander,
can i come and see your bulbs in bloom? when i drive through forest park now i think of you and wonder where you live.
where are you from?
what school do you work for?
etc...
debi & franklin

of course you can ;- ) As soon as they bloom i will dmail tou and you can come for coffee.

sounds excellent to me. :-)

Still waiting for blooms . . . .

Tehe - I just read this on Wikipedia and have some questions for you:

"Yin (Chinese: 陰 or 阴; pinyin: yīn; literally "shady place, north slope (hill), south bank (river); cloudy, overcast") is the dark element: it is passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night.

Yang (陽 or 阳; yáng; "sunny place, south slope (hill), north bank (river); sunshine") is the bright element: it is active, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day.

Yin is often symbolized by water or earth, while yang is symbolized by fire or wind.

Yin (the receptive, feminine, dark, passive force) and yang (the creative, masculine, bright, active force) are descriptions of complementary opposites rather than absolutes. Any yin/yang dichotomy can be viewed from another perspective. All forces in nature can be seen as having yin and yang states, and the two are in movement rather than held in absolute stasis".

Is your planting the basic yin yang design or did you try to follow the north slope/south slope challenge? I'm also wondering why the female (yin) is the dark side while the male gets the sunny side. Sounds like there must be a reason for it.

Makes sense to me!

pirl ~ very interesting question! I have Chinese blood in my ethnic ancestry, although I am far removed from any cultural practice or ritual by a couple generations. I was born/raised in the USA, my parents were born raised in another country, and at least one great-grandparent on each side was born/raised in China. This said, my design idea is more novel than anything else ~ no feng shui considerations here.

When I planted the bulbs, I originally intended a simple ying yang design with some modification. I planted Tarda as the outlining circle and separated each side within with Spanish Bluebells. I didn't have enough bulbs for each side, so I used other bulbs to complete each section. One side is Linifolia and the other Lady Jane Clusiana. The Linifolia and Lady Jane Clusiana start from the tip and end forming a smaller shaped (meaning shorter) paisley. The top of each section is shaped like a crescent moon and planted with something else...I can't recall and will have to wait until they bloom to see what I did. ;-)

I know Tarda and Spanish bluebells but not the others. Which are the yin, since they're supposed to (from what I read) be the darker colors?