Spring Bulbs - What's Blooming? IV

Tulipa `Negrita':

Tulipa `Shirley.' I love this tulip!

ooooo the Negritta is a nice bluey purple.

Dahlia, yes, it is very nice, especially paired with the `Shirley,' but next year I need to interplant them to get the full effect. TY

I think I lost my "Shirley' as there is no sign and they should be up now :( I tried them in the back of a lettuce patch and I think they rotted from too much moisture in the summer. O well lesson learned.

dahlianut...yeah....that is salty muck the chionodoxa has naturalized in. I'm thinking chionodoxa would be perfect for along the street where snowplows toss salt onto the lawn.

They are tough!

Instead of trying to get pretty pictures, I should have looked for the most inhospitable area of my neighbor's yard that had chionodoxa growing in it to learn how much abuse it can take.

I know some was out in the salt marsh under those cattails. Here is some forcing its way up only ten or so feet away and a few inches above the water in the marsh:

It's amazing how prolific they are!

Dahlianut....wish I had a before and after photo. Since I first saw this property when I was a kid in the 1960s, it has been overgrown. The new owners raised the house up, put in a new foundation, added a room and did I don't know what else. Cost more to restore this 19th century "five, four and a door" than a new house the same size would cost to build. Half an acre, right down to the salt marsh, was nothing but dirt (much of which they hauled in) for over a year as construction was under way. They are almost done now and finally have grass in the yard.

With chionodoxa coming up there too.

Not as many as down by the salt marsh but more than I have. Coming up in their new sod right outside their front door.

I do adore old houses DP and what a wonder with the chinadoxa. Surely they might let you transplant a few into your garden? Also what an interesting habitat to develop! Are they gardeners in the least?

I stopped buying tulips years ago because they do not come back for me (too warm here, and they probably rot being in the ground with my other plants). So, I enjoy looking at all the tulips posted here.

White calla lilies have been blooming for the last month and a half now - they have a great long blooming period.

Tammy wrote: "Pretty urns! What will you plant them with after the tulips?"

I've done different things over the years - In 2006 I bought two 12" brugmansia for the urns - by July they were too large (out of proportion with the urns) and in August a strong wind made one of them snap off the stem of the urn!

The next year I did wire frames with red mandevilla.

A friend gave me two passion flower vines recently - maybe I'll try them on the frames in the urns this year, for variety.

Your neighborhood looks very pretty and inviting, Leawood, so many nice trees. Your mandevillas were gorgeous. Passion vines can really be prolific depending on the particular cultivar.

I have lots of daffodils and muscari but next year I am going to plant a bunch of tulips. I love Princess Irene. But even here where it is fairly mild but we do get the cold to sustain bloom for tulips, they don't always come back very well. I think our problem is probably drainage. Too wet. And really if you think about it, it isn't too bad a price for annuals.
I also want to do some viridis tulips again.

Joann, I bought some Princes Irene from Wooden Shoe and they should be blooming soon. I also sent some to my cousins in CA in honor of their mother (Irene, my aunt) who passed away. Theirs have bloomed already and I heard they were lovely.

Hope they have some blooming again at WS when I hope to visit this week.

These Sweethearts are from WS. They are so pretty!

Beahive,

I have another source for ordering tulips which is much much cheaper than WS.So if you can narrow down what variety you are interested in I can see if this other place(s) have them. They are actually wholesale outlets. Joann

Lenjo: Can you share the name of the other source with the rest of us?

Since our farm is incorporated I can get in as a company, so I use a couple of sources, my daughters and I have a small flower business starting too, Leo Berbee is one company and the other is Ednie Flower bulbs. You can order retail from Ednie's. I did business with both this spring and I much prefer Leo Berbee; they are much more efficient and timely in dealing with customers. OK? Hope this helps.

Thanks, Len. I guess if Ednie's does retail, I can check them out. Probably check out Leo Barbee, too, but if they only wholesale, that might eliminate me unless we can get a coop going by Aug.

It is
Berbee, hemophohic, and they have a US subsidiary of their business which is Canadian. They don't have an online catalog. Joann

Okay, Joann. Thanks again for the info. Always looking for bargains!

This one was beautiful today

As was this daffodil!

These are so cheery!

A cranefly was wrapped around this tulip this morning. It was breezy so I guess he was holding on!

A patch of pink.

Tri color daff

Love your planter with "Don Quichotte", Hemo - you captured the blooms nicely. I am afraid my tulips are all about finished and I am on the last daffodils now - Irises are blooming and some peonies. I've not had good success with alliums - do yours return well?

BeaHive, beautiful pictures as always! Love your yellow tulips and that yellow and orange one.

Hello,
New here to this community and these are a few of my very first daffs that I have ever planted. Put them in last year and I acquired them through a coop here on DG.

Thanks,
Susan

Very pretty setting with your turtle, susan! Your narcissi look terrific. Welcome to the addiction! LOL You'll be ordering more and more each year, I predict ^_^

Welcome Susan. Those are very feminine and dainty looking daffs. They are just beautiful. Great job first time around. Keep up the good work!

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Hi Susan, and welcome! Your tulips are really pretty. Your turtle really seems to like them (nice touch!)

Donna

Awww. Thank you all. I have some more in this bed but didn't take pics. This is a huge dahlia bed but I wanted something in there that would come up in the Spring, so now I want to FILL IT with daffs and tulips. But I lost all my first ever tulips to voles I think? I never knew critters would eat them! I posted a question about this subject. I am guessing I will have to just do daffs, I am not one to want to replace bulbs every year, my husband and I have a 4 acre farm and are way too busy with veggies and a berry orchard. I plant only perrenials for that reason don't have time for annuals.

I like my garden critters too. When I planted the daffs last year I had no idea that this particular one would have multi flowers on one stem, what a deal! :)

I am trying to get someone to start a fall bulb coop cause many of the bulb sites are offering discounts for pre-orders.

Susan: Excellent job on the daffs! Quite lovely and most satisfying for a first time effort!

Steve: TY for admiring the Don Quichotte tulips in the planter. They're a nice shade of pink. I'm going to add some yellow tulips this fall and do some mixing up of the colors. This is my first year planting alliums and I'm already loving them. I don't know how well they'll return or multiply for me, but I'll answer that question next spring. Okay? I also planted Camassia and Fritilleria that I'm anxious to see blooming. The Camassia has buds on it, but no blooms yet. The Frit is up but no buds yet. Oh, it's so gratifying to see everything coming up!!!!

Hemo,
Thanks don't ya love seeing all the stuff popping up. I have dahlias coming up, peonies, shasta daisy, carnations, pink stuff (forgot the name) they look like small pin cushion flowers? My hollyhock and foxgloves have huge leaves and pincushion plant is got buds. My first clematis is climbing a trellis like mad and I have some amaryllis that I put in the ground 2 winters ago and I got gorgeous amaryllis in July last year and they are coming back! I am so excited!

Glorious pics everybody!

Susan, welcome! I've had the same issue with Tulips, so many critters find them tasty- I've had voles eat the bulbs as they were blooming, found the wilted stems standing there only to tug and find there was no longer a bulb attached! But you can grow Hyacinths safely, critters avoid those like Daffodils. Do you recall the name of that Daffodil? They remind me of these I got from an eflowergarden co op in '07.

Congrats Neal on your beautiful daffodils and on your lilies coming up! LOL Your gerden looks like amine two or three weeks ago ^_^ Your lilies are getting some size to them I can see - isn't that encouraging?

gemini....I cruised though Van Engelen to see what the daffies susan and apparently you have and found a few close but not exact. Very nice whatever they are!