Spring Bulbs - What's Blooming? II

Congratulations on your new crocus blooms, artemiss!

My first Sir Winston Churchills blooming ^_^

My new bed in back

Tulips

So pretty!

Steve-
very nice. You must spend a small fortune on all those lovely bulbs. How many do you think you have?
-t

Oh Steve, how glorious! Can you iamgine what it will be like when those daffs take it into their prettty little heads to multiply?

My pink Chionodoxa are emerging from their slumber. Will send pics.

Donna

Wooohoo, I've a few siberian squill blooms coming up. :-)

Kim,

What an intense blue. Beautiful color. Can't miss those guys.

Donna

Thanks Donna, what's more exciting is the lily that you sent me -- it's coming up I think. :-)

Cool!

Donna

Lily: Those Siberian squill are truly lovely, such a clear blue. I must remember to plant some this fall.

Angie

Angie, the S. squills along with the wood hyacinch (I believe those are Spanish Bluebells), they do well in shade area as well as fun sun. I love blue flowers.

Lily, Me, too, blue flowers! I'm trying to grow Blue Pimpernel from seed this year, just couldn't resist a plant with that name. We'll see how it does. I also have Meconopsis, some flax, campanulas and caryopteris, gentians, lots of blue!

Angie

Thanks you guys. And I am looking forward to seeing your Chionodoxa bloom, Donna :-)

I agree on the blue - Kim, be sure to post your bluebells when they bloom. That is one bulb I do not have.

Here are more things blooming in front :-)

Some more yellow tulips - can you tell I like yellow? LOL

Taylor - HMM - I planted about 450 in 2006, about 2,100 in 2007, and another 2,200 in 2008 (combination bulbs + plants). I don't do too much else that costs a lot of money so I save my play money for plants and bulbs.

It is a fun hobby but you are right, gets expensive

^_^

I have blue chinadoxa and just put in pink last fall. I'm sooooooooo keen to see the pinks. (If you squat and stare hard at the beds all the time is that like 'the watch pot that never boils'?) Beautiful colour on the squill Lady_love. Mine aren't that bright.

I am still enjoying all these lovely signs of spring-to-come!!
More crocus have bloomed here:

I think these are c. crysanthus "cream beauty"

Okay, how about blue & yellow combo? Blue of hyacinch, and yellow of the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

Steve, my wood hyacinch (spanish bluebells) are now making buds, I'll post pix as they unfurl.

C. Crysanthus "blue pearl"

Lily love-
that picture is fantastic. I swear the butterfly jumped out at me like 3-D

Steve-your membername should be "bulbman'' :0)
That is a LOT of bulbs...I thought you were going to say 500-600, or so, lol

Great pic, Lily-love!

I can't wait to see the bluebells when the open!

Another crysanthus, "Ard Schenk"

And, several of my iris histioides "george" have bloomed:

thanks all. Oh, I love those crocus/croci(?). :-)

Wow, the iris is very different!

Thanks! I thought so too..our neighbor has some reticulated iris that were the first thing on our block that bloomed last year, so I was intrigued.

And alas, most of the crocus (croci?) are no longer with us, but in the belly of a bunny that is NOT long for this world after I came home to this:

(I had mothballs scattered in the beds, which had helped with the chipmunks digging them up, but apparently did NOT deter the rabbits.)

Bad, bad wabbit!!! :((

I sprayed mine with lots of thiram (Bonide Deer and Rabbit Repellent has it at 11%) once I saw nibbling and that diminished it in some places and stopped it in others. I do the same thing with my tulips and lilies. First the voles, then the rabbits, then the chipmunks - and completely different methods for all three - sigh.

But Artemiss, thank you for the lovely shots. Are you going to go out like your near namesake with a bow and arrow and take another kind of shot?

Donna

DonnaMack,

What do you use to treat for voles? I've been overrun with them this year.

Thanks. Sarah

Donna: thanks..I enjoyed them while they lasted.
Oh believe me, the thought has crossed my mind. I grew up with hunters and eating fried rabbit, so I would have little remorse thinning the herd, but we live in city limits, where shooting things is frowned upon by the law. (I would be the crazy lady on the porch with a shotgun..lol!)

Where did you find your Thiram-containing bonide?

I can't seem to find ANYTHING containing it..the Bonide deer and rabbit stuff I found is basically the same ingredients as liquid fence..putrefied egg solids, garlic and other "organic" ingredients, and searching the Bonide site for "thiram" doesn't bring anything up.


Was it pulled off the market?

Well, I picked up some Liquid Fence (which smells suspiciously like catfish bait to me..LOL) and doused the what little was left..I was happy to find a small corner those dang rabbits missed, somehow.


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I bought mine at Ace Hardware. Its is also available though the mail at:

Ace Hardware Outlet:
http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/(sqifxr45juabzlmmeecxih55)/ProductDetails.aspx?SKU=998009868

Best Nest website:
http://www.bestnest.com/bestnest/RTProduct.asp?SKU=BOP-232&src=froogle&kw=BOP-232

The gallon size is available at:
http://www.unbeatablesale.com/bci10519.html?utm_source=froogle4&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=BCI10519&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=BCI10519

The various sites babble about the ingredient list, but they don't tell you what really works: the 11% thiram. Since no ones knows what it is, they don't boast about it.

Here is a blurb on thiram:

"Thiram belongs to the ethylene bisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) chemical class. The EBDCs are fungicides used to prevent crop damage in the field and to protect harvested crops from deterioration in storage or transport (7). Thiram is used as a seed protectant and to protect fruit, vegetable, ornamental and turf crops from a variety of fungal diseases. It is also used as an animal repellent to protect fruit trees and ornamentals from damage by rabbits, rodents and deer. Thiram is available as dust, flowable, wettable powder, water dispersible granules, and water suspension formulations and in mixtures with other fungicides (1, 5).
Thiram has been used in the treatment of human scabies, as a sun screen and as a bactericide applied directly to the skin or incorporated into soap (1). "

You will notice it is used on humans. I like the fact that it is safe to apply to your skin. It is also non-toxic to bees. Keep it away from fish. I use it on things as they emerge. Generally, one application works. It greatly reduces the damage, but you must spray things as they emerge. It lasts through rainfall.

Donna

This little stand of iris is all that left here, though. (those nubs all around them are what's left of the crocus)

If this liquid fence works, then perhaps the bunnies will get a reprieve. (That or just plant more iris, since they really don't seam to like those)

My mom swears by bloodmeal for rabbits. She sprinkles it around the edge of the garden and near favorite plants. It can burn leaves if you sprinkle it directly on top of plants though.

Iris, this is Japanese Iris I think. Yesterday it was a tight bud:

The next day:

Narcissus x odorus flore pleno aka Queen Anne's Double Jonquil

First time I have grown this:

Chionodoxa blooming first time for me. Sorry the photo's a little blurred.

Chris, the bright yellow of the daff, and the crisp blue of the hyacinch combined = fabulous!