Lets honour all our other spring treasures...

I have the bags for some time, even forgot where I got them from,could be from one of the second hand shops I sometimes visit,lol.
Oh, you think it won't flower this year Wallaby?
I've been wrestling myself through the interesting information of The Heartland Peony Society.
Many of the specialised terms in there I don't understand, but I did figure out it should be planted in full sun and doesn't like humid conditions being vulnerable then for fungus diseases. That doesn't sound too good for my case. I simply cannot offer it full sun, though I planted it in a kind of raised construction of stone containers close to the wall where I can control the amount of water it gets because the rain rarely reaches that spot, but the humidity in the air will be mostly high the biggest part of the year...
I just looked in the catalogue of the nursery and there it states that it can grow in full sun to partial shade.
I think time will tell...

Oh, that is a most lovely Puschkinia libanotica!

Thanks for the uni-graz-site Patti, I knew that the leaves are used as a very healthy salad, haven't tried it though, I don't want to eat mine as I only have one. It's about 8 years old now and only has enlarged in size but didn't spread about, But this year I saw some small seedlings I first thought they were from lilies, but then it's more likely from the Allium as they came up close to it.


Oh I also couldn't use the pretty Sanguinaria canadensis for a dye, Tammy! I think I'll try it again because I like it very much specially when it unfolds its first leaves.

Beautiful pic. of Eranthis hyemalis,
Jg48650

These are 2 kinds of musucari in my garden.
"ValerieFinnis"

Muscari arumeniacum

Goldenfish--I love muscari 'Valerie Finnis' too.

Here's a couple of different ones blooming today.
Bletilla ochracea

Herbertia pulchella

Lovely muscaries Goldenfish, I specially like 'Vallerie Finnis' and the Violet is adorable too!

Bletilla ochracea and Herbertia pulchella are really special, haven't seen these before dmj!
They are beautiful!

I have planted Ipheion uniflorum 'Wisley Blue' today. Hope they like their new home.

I can't wait for all the muscari to bloom especially 'Valerie Finnis'. I loved being introduced to Herbertia pulchella as I had never seen that plant before.

I am over the moon that my Fritillaria raddeana has returned. It bloomed on April 24th last year and this year today. Patti

Love the Herbertia pulchella and Bletilla ochracea

Here is reticulated iris 'Cantab', nice soft blues. Patti

"Cantab" is sure nice--hard to get that shade of blue in anything, let alone a bulb.
=)

here is a new one for me. was expecting the blue variety, but i was suprised with Chionodoxa luciliae alba, White Snow Glory. very delicate.

tracie

that looks so pretty in white!

No wonder you 'over the moon' with F. raddeana Patti, it is absolutely gorgeous!
Beautiful blue on that iris 'Cantanb'.

and Tracie how lovely lucialiae is in white too!

With the last sunny days my newly planted Anemone nemerosa 'Blue beauty' has opened its flowers, the blue is bit deeper than from A.nemerosa 'Robinsoniana'

Everyone has some beautiful bulbs to show! My list keeps growing & growing!! Weather still feeling like winter..but the yard says Spring is here! UPS lady enjoyed the blooms today as a package of
tomatoe starts were being delivered. Too cold to plant..will keep company with the ones I started indoors this year... darn!

Wow you have a lot already Bea Hive!

A modest little one that never fails to charm me is the wild woodland Oxalis acetosella, I have the white flowered one and also the pink 'Rosea' that started blooming some days ago; The colour is more pinkish than the photo shows.

Another unknown

Here is another

This must be a glad of some sort but it is tiny. only about 8-10 inches tall

Wow, this thread is exactly what I needed! I planted a batch of "mixed minor bulbs" last year, along with a lot of daffodils, and have found the names of some here! Can't wait to see the rest bloom. . .

So, making a list of what I have based on pics above, and an even longer list of what I want! LOL

Booker

That's great Booker, would be nice if you post your pics when they start blooming!

Corydalis lutea is a native wild plant that loves growing in crevices of old shady walls and rocks. Mine is making its first flower of the year. I grew it up from some 'rescued' tiny babies that had just germinated from seed fallen from the motherplant on the street at the base of a very old medieval wall in town.

The whole plant, the stems are reddish and add to its handsomeness. I have it for about three years in a container and will try to make it grow in some mossy stone constructions I made. Its lovely in combinations with small wall ferns like Asplenium trichomanes and Adianthum venustum.

Arum italicum is not blooming yet, but I love its gorgeous foliage. I guess mine could be some kind of cultivar; have no idea which one, perhaps 'marmoratum'.
It's the offspring of a 50 year old plant my father once got as a gift; it was growing on the graves of the monks in an old monastery.
I love the dramatic drawings on it, it looks exotic..

Lovely bulbs, I can't grow them. We are stuck with the tropical types.

Most of our bulbs are large and lack the charm of the small bulbs.

Almost all bulbs in this climate are evergreen.

Only rain lillies are petite.

But, travel to other places can show you amazing things.

Marie, your last one will be Gladiolus carneus, one of the few which is sold.

http://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/plant_display.asp?prodid=2239

The second looks like an Ixia

http://www.touchofnature.com/Fall%20Pictures/ixia_Mixed1.jpg

The first is Dichelostemma, Pink Diamond is most commonly sold in that colour.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=dichelostemma&spell=1

Bonitin, how lovely to have plants with such history. I have the occasional Corydalis lutea (I think that's what it is) which I got from my neighbour, most disappeared but there's always a couple I find self set. Yours looks very lush and happy, I don't recall the buds on mine having the green but I haven't looked very hard, it hasn't flowered much lately so would probably benefit from a different location.

I bought an Arum italicum marmoratum last year, it's just starting to spread. The leaves look like yours, I will try to get a pic if it's still looking OK. This cold is keeping me inside, we have 6C with cold, damp north winds so it feels much colder, besides it's very dull. Winter!

This is your Oxalis, it's in a pot in the greenhouse (more shaded one), I was going to put it in the ground soon, it's growing well.

Thanks for showing your pretty bulbs, Dale!
The rain lilies are adorable, I like the pink with green.
Not so found though of the mass plantation of tulips, the beauty and charm of the single flower gets lost.

Wallaby, according to my botany book, Corydalis lutea likes the soil to be alkaline, and your soil is rather acidic if I remember well. I've given mine some seaweed chalk and it loves it, but I think some pulverized brick stone mixed with the soil could do the same trick.

Yesterday was a very dull, rainy and chilly day with north-east winds, but today is very sunny and it feels warm, 16°C in the shadow and in the sun around 25°C.

Oh, it feels so good that the Oxalis is doing well with you! Thanks for posting its pict. Mine are not blooming yet, but have plenty of buds coming on.
It's a pity that I don't know its true name apart from being a type of O.articulata. I have even written a letter to that nursery in the South of France (they don't have a webpage) but found their address on the web. I got no response. It will bloom well into November.
Your Corydalis and Oxalis are doing fine too, they are all planted out in the garden, but not blooming yet.

This is I think Scilla siberica, I have since very long and it even tolerates quite shady conditions. I love that intense blue.

Polygonatums also belong to my favorite spring bulbs.
They're fascinating in all their stages of unfolding. I find them so graceful.
This is I think Polygonatum multiflorum;

Gosh, I don't think my Polygonatum has left the ground yet!

Veeery pretty blue Scilla.

Thanks for the info about C. lutea, maybe I will try something like crushed mortar.

I am so glad you have 'extreme' summer temps, lol, now I am jealous though because we still have the same cold temps with fine drizzle, but the winds are not so cold today. You must have got some warm weather pushing from the south.

The sun didn't last, but it still feels warm (15°C)specially because there is no wind. Hope the warm weather will travel your way soon, wallaby!

I think I had promised to show a pict of Trillium sessile when open, so here it is;

and closer-by; the heart is very special and mysterious

At the moment the north is winning over the south, so depressing, it makes me think the whole summer is going to be dreadful again! Global cooling I think.

You have a very nice T. sessile, it's best to be able to personally select them as the leaf patterns vary so much. The heart is very special!

first time with this bulb, Ixia. very pretty and delicate. Red St Josephs Lilies int the background.

tracie

White form of Muscari

Glory of the Snow

My white muscari..did not order it, I thought something freaky happened to my blue.. Thanks Colquhoun for setting things straight.
Yours are very delicate & pretty.

wallaby thanks for the id's!!
Bonitin I cannot even begin to tell you how envious I am of your Trillium sessile ! That is one awesome bloom!!