I have 50 tulips from Costco a mix of purple lady and foxtrot. Then I have lots of lifted bulbs - tulips and hyacinths and daffodils. I also have drumstick allium that stay in pots all year and come back year on year, naturalised daffs and lovely yellow tulips with frilly edges.
I planted out a dozen each of white daffodils and purple tulips around my mailbox. I tried alliums a couple years ago that never came up, but I'm just daft enough to try again. I have a feeling I'm throwing good money after bad with those.
Well done getting that lot planted @borgadr, a fine haul. I much prefer planting bulbs in pots if I have the option.
I think the same about tulips @Fire, I can only get reliable repeats from Darwin and I think Triumph, I have them in the ground however today I couldn't resist ordering two packs of the pink mix tulips from Parkers. They were on offer and had a free delivery code until tonight (OCTPNP)***. Even so, it seems a bit wasteful for a one year display but in my imagination they are looking great in a front garden pot.
I've got a couple of hundred bulbs planted so far, mostly daffs (I love daffs) and a lucky dip of camassia colours with 60 Broadleigh Belle (their home grown 'variety'). I also ordered a rareish/new variety called John Treasure as a treat, a kind called Silk River which don't sound dissimilar to some I already have and more Quamash as they are a lovely blue and reliable, to underplant a small primula bed, many of which disappeared over the dry summer.
I haven't ordered any alliums for a few years as I have had a few expensive one-year wonders. This year however I am trying Pink Jewel and Cherry as a relatively inexpensive risk.
I've just got one more delivery from Rose Cottage to come and from today's order some offer daffs, snowdrops and crocus that can all go in pots for now. Also have about 5 pots of last years daffs sat on the ground in various places. Am waiting for things to die back so I can get in and plant them. I always overplan the bulbs but it is worth it in the spring
***Editing to correct JParkers offer code if anyone interested, to 9 am Monday 10th October 2022.
I find Tulip Ballerina is coming back for me ok. I've started putting ex-tulips from into the ground (randlomly) just to see what would happen (a la Monty). Peppermint stick is here bottom left. It makes me conclude that tulips really love full sun and I don't have much of that - at least not enough for thriving tulips. They get long and lean. But Ballerina (here in orange) seem to enjoy the garden.
They are a nice splash of colour @Fire. I forgot also about species types which I know people often rate for coming back year on year. I do have a pink species, poss with a yellow centre, that are in a horribly dry bed and they have been coming back for nearly 10 years, I forgot about them to be honest. Even being pink and yellow, they aren't very memorable
I'm a big fan of Ballerina too @Fire. It has been repeat flowering in my garden for three years now. This year I'm adding two other lily flowered tulips in purple and yellow to provide a flash of colour on my sloping bank which provides good drainage and sun. This was a combination in 2021, including Ballerina:
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I think the same about tulips @Fire, I can only get reliable repeats from Darwin and I think Triumph, I have them in the ground however today I couldn't resist ordering two packs of the pink mix tulips from Parkers. They were on offer and had a free delivery code until tonight (OCTPNP)***. Even so, it seems a bit wasteful for a one year display but in my imagination they are looking great in a front garden pot.
I've got a couple of hundred bulbs planted so far, mostly daffs (I love daffs) and a lucky dip of camassia colours with 60 Broadleigh Belle (their home grown 'variety'). I also ordered a rareish/new variety called John Treasure as a treat, a kind called Silk River which don't sound dissimilar to some I already have and more Quamash as they are a lovely blue and reliable, to underplant a small primula bed, many of which disappeared over the dry summer.
I haven't ordered any alliums for a few years as I have had a few expensive one-year wonders. This year however I am trying Pink Jewel and Cherry as a relatively inexpensive risk.
I've just got one more delivery from Rose Cottage to come and from today's order some offer daffs, snowdrops and crocus that can all go in pots for now. Also have about 5 pots of last years daffs sat on the ground in various places. Am waiting for things to die back so I can get in and plant them. I always overplan the bulbs but it is worth it in the spring
***Editing to correct JParkers offer code if anyone interested, to 9 am Monday 10th October 2022.