Spring Bulbs - What's Blooming VI

Wow..such lovely gardens all!!

My tulips are are winding down, but I still have a few going..this is a Marjoletti:

I can't get over rose-like these Red Hunters are..

Another one, against the heuchera..

And Annelinde is still going..the cool weather has made this a wonderful late tulip year!!

Artimiss.. beautiful. Love the last one.

OOOh Voss, love your trumpet!

And Artemiss, Annelinde is beautiful.

Donna

Artemiss, I thought I had planted Marjoletti but mine is yellow at the moment with red. Who knows.

Here is a college of some of today's photo's. Tulipa Deidre is the green one, which I love. The red one is Omnyacc which we adore for it's color and form and I plant it every year. The tall one is Long Lady. The little one in the bottom rt is suppose to be Marjolettii, but maybe not. The Narcissus are Pay Day and that sweet little one is Sun Disc and the white one is Polar Ice. Patti

patti it must have been nice to return home to all those pretties.

Neal,
I bought some Delphinium tricorne at a nursery in WI last summer. I never knew there was any Delphiniums that went dormant, before I saw those "empty" pots. (Yes, I bought "dead" pots.) I would be very interested in the conditions the wild KY ones are growing in. And what sort of tuber does it have: like a tiny potato, a crocus corm, tulip bulblike, tiny sweet potato, etc.?

I hope everyone sends in a few of their garden photos to Brent & Becky's for their website! (Your photos are better than their professional ones.)

And all of your gardens are worthy of a spread in 'Fine Gardening' magazine, for sure, too!

Hey Lefty! The tubers reminded me of ranunculus- sort of like a loose, upside down lily bulb. I've found it interesting that they (Delphinium tricorne) occur throughout much of the Bluegrass region of the state, but are absent from the mountainous, wooded areas of Appalachia. The Bluegrass area is open rolling hills, and the soils are mostly of limestone origin- lots of rich clay loam in the area where the soil has been undisturbed. I usually see them in open fields and meadows and old home sites, where no bulldozing has been done- I never see them growing in poor soil. I think they may not like acidic soils since they don't grow in Appalachia.

Has yours broken dormancy?

Thanks guys- I sure hope I get a repeat performance out theose Annelinde next year...they have to be some of my favourites this year.

Patti:
I think Marjolletti, being a species tulip, is very variable..of all of mine, the photo I included is the only one that has even near that much red...the rest are a pale yellow with just the faintest red edges...and these were all from the same source.

Tabasco..I never thought to do that, but I will now, especially since most of the species tulips I have came from their end of season sale:)

Thanks Neal. I have one D. tricome in the garden and one in a pot still, more protected for the winter. I am not sure how cold hardy they really are.
Neither have come up yet. Although, somehow this one eluded my meticulous records, and I am not sure exactly what part of the garden it is in!
And I have about 700 pots, and haven't exactly seen that pot either. Oh well. It will turn up, dead or alive.

Artemiss I LUV the red rose against the heuchera. I now know where I'm going to move my NOID red rose. Thanks. Beautiful as always Patti. We've been rainy and cool so tulips are staying closed. Will have pics in a couple of days for sure.

Tabasco, I have sent pictures of some I have bought from Brent and Becky in the past and they publish them in their customer gallery. Becky loves getting them, or so she said in an email to me. Nice folks. Nice bulbs.

I am in Vt for a few days, and we have only a couple of tulips left up here. I hate missing the late ones in Nantucket that are just starting, but going to some great nurseries and finding some gems has eased the pain, but not the wallet. I shopped under an umbrella at a great place in Whately Ma called Bay State Perennials who have always an amazing collection of woodland plants as well as other things, but, alas, they don't ship. Their web site is very useful. http://www.baystateperennial.com/html/mailing_list.html

Artemiss, I think you are right about the variety in Marjollettii, I noticed more opening in great variations at 5:30 yesterday morning when I made a last minute run through the garden before heading out to catch the early boat. But maybe I was just dreaming. I wished I had something to post, but my Vt bulbs are sort of done. Patti

Allium 'Gigantium'

Allium 'Globe Master'

Allium 'Christophii' - It's just starting to bloom, but when it's in full bloom, it looks like a ball of stars!

Wow, I love all those alliums. One thing befuzzle moi. Everything appear to ... or seems to bloom here before they will up North such as Tulips daffodils ect. But allium. Mine doesn't bloom until much later in the season.

I bought a mix of Longiflorum/Asiatic lily bulbs, they are the only lily that return and multiply here in the torrid zone. They have grown perfectly and the mix they sent me blooms over a period of months. This is the first time I have gotten a 'grab bag' of bulbs that was worth the price I paid.

For the first time 8 months we have gotten more than 1" of rain in a two week period, the rain lilies loved it>

Since this place is in foreclosure (landlord has fled the state) I have been keeping all my movable plants in containers. More rain lilies>

dale, that white rainlily is outstanding. I have some that look similar to your pink, which I got from Buried Treasures. They are very pretty but don't always bloom after rain, so I don't really understand this plant, lol. They keep growing at a mannerly pace, so I won't complain and enjoy the blooms when they feel like blooming.

If you do well w/ the L/Asiatics, I think you'll like the L/Orientals also.

Voss,

I have had one L/O for 4 years now, but, they are harder to find than L/A lillies.

yes about harder to find. I almost said that. That one looks like Triumphator, my favorite.

The pink rain lily doesn't bloom much here either, in a good year twice a summer.

These are Habranthus, they only bloom once (sometimes twice) in a summer>

bbrookrd, yes, I agree, B & B are nice bulb people. Especially to their best customers (like you!)

And of course I recognized your bulb bloom photos on their website! How could I not? Your spring garden is no doubt unsurpassed and definitely has your creative touch!

Love all the alliums, too. Lily-love, I suppose your late bloomers are a different variety or strain. I have several different purple alliums that all look the same yet have different bloom times.

Not much new here. Alliums are holding on, and what few lilies that survived the past year are procrastinating about blooming. t.

Ornigolathum nutans with Anastasia in bud. I ordered camassia quamash and got this by mistake. It's supposed to be hardy to no more than zone 5b but it has thrived in my garden and I've moved it amongst my lilies - it's a great mixer.

Weisse Berliner.

I can never resist the combo of doubles and lilyflowering.

They are widening the freeway a couple blocks north of the house. I went out and rescued some rain lilies today.

I received this instead of the Mayfair I ordered. Does anyone know what it is? Too dark for Angelique, which I have. Is it possibly Upstar?

Donna

Ornithogalum dubium, a winter growing bulb closing up for the night>

Lovely lilies and allium!


Donna..your tulips are lovely! Just the lily-flowering holding on here, this is probably their last hurrah:

And this is cheating a bit, but such a lovely flower, I had to include it-the dahlia I picked up at the local produce store:

Artemiss, sharing something that beautiful could never be called cheating!

Donna

I'm always in for dahlias ^_^

The Weisse Berliners are stunning, Donna - they look wonderful!

Artemiss, how'd you ever find a dahlia blooming this early? LOL Even here they're just coming up....

LOL, like I said- I cheated..it was a pot I picked up from the greenhouse at our local produce store. They had the 'Dark Angel' series dahlias with the nearly-black foliage and I just couldn't resist getting a couple each of the purple and red ones. 'Braveheart' and 'Pulp Fiction', I think are the names. The small, deeply coloured blooms just pop against the dark leaves, especially in the sun.

I really haven't seen a lot of info on them, and I wonder it they come true from seed, or if the tubers can be stored like other dahls...I could easily line the front walk with them next year if so.

Of course, the dahlias I started myself are still little babies, and a good long ways from flowering yet. Most of the greenhouses have potted ones for sale that are blooming, but this was the first place I saw this particular cultivar.

Dahlias don't come true from seed but tubers will develop on your luvlys and they can be stored like any other dahlia. Hopefully they will be tuberlifik ones!