January 07, 2007
Bulbs!
An overambitious snowdrop comes up in the front garden (below).
There are a number of little craters in the ground of the kind made by hungry squirrels, so clearly the chicken-wire barriers, however ugly, were a good idea. They'd be nicer covered in snow, though.
I was curious last week about the fall's bulb-planting - it had gone by quickly, what with ordering large numbers of bulbs on a fall discount sale and trying to get them into the ground before the end of November, because, of course, there might be a hard frost before Christmas. As it turned out, it's warmer now than when I planted them.
Anyway, I went back to the e-mailed receipts from gardenimport.com, and it turned out that in short order I'd managed to plant 464 bought bulbs, nearly all in the front garden, plus a bag of pheasant-eye narcissus from division in Jville. I knew it was a lot, but I'd lost track of the actual number.
I'm most curious about Camassia, a native which is new to me (details here). I bought five last year for the back garden, which seemed like a big deal at the time. This year, suddenly, they're fifty cents each and you can have a large bag for $10. They must be being bred on a much larger scale, or something.
Details below the image:
| 6 | Allium | SCHUBERTII |
| 25 | Allium | PURPLE SENSATION |
| 1 | Allium | GLOBEMASTER |
| 3 | Allium | MOUNT EVEREST |
| 25 | Allium | moly JEANNINE |
| 20 | Allium | AZUREUM |
| 10 | Autumn Crocus | SATIVUS |
| 5 | Autumn Crocus | speciosus ALBUS |
| 20 | Camassia | QUAMASH |
| 50 | Chionodoxa | SARDENSIS |
| 1 | Chionoscilla | X ALLENII |
| 50 | Crocus | ANCYRENSIS |
| 25 | Crocus | ANCYRENSIS |
| 25 | Crocus | vernus JOAN OF ARC |
| 20 | Eranthis | HYEMALIS |
| 1 | Fritillaria | imperialis LUTEA MAXIMA |
| 25 | Galanthus | ELWESII |
| 1 (ie. 50 bulbs) | Galanthus | NATURALIZING COLLECTION |
| 6 | Lilium species | Lilium PUMILUM |
| 10 | Narcissus | RIP VAN WINKLE |
| 10 | Narcissus | MINNOW |
| 25 | Scilla | BIFOLIA |
| 25 | Scilla | SIBERICA |
| 1 | Trillium | GRANDIFLORUM |
| 25 | Tulipa | URUMIENSIS |
| 464 | ||