The Bulbing has begun!

Oct 17, 2007

A view of about one third of the bulb boxes filling the tiny cottage

We hear the UPS truck arriving with our bulb boxes...7021 bulbs in the first order and another few hundred bulbs to follow in a later order. The sheer weight was impressive, but unfortunately I have forgotten it...somewhere around 400 pounds, I think it was! Happily, four days of rain ensued so I was able to sort all of them into a box for each client, labeled and organized, without losing any outdoor work time.

The bulbs themselves

couldn’t be more appealing;

here’s a small assortment

‘of the species tulips.

Now the seemingly endless bulbing job begins of going from client to client putting in $30 worth here....$200 worth there...depending on their budget and garden space. The race is on to get them in the ground before they get soft.

Here’s some of what we planted from the first order (from Van Engelen), not including a wider assortment of Oriental and Asiatic lilies; this is the assortment that went to Long Beach.:

Allium albopilosum

Allium bulgaricum

Anemone blanda

Brodiaea 'Corrina'

Brodiaea 'Queen Fabiola'

Chionodoxa

Colochortus

Crocus 'Miss Vain'

Crocus sieberii tricolor

Crocus species mix

Crocus vernus

Fritillaria meleagris

Iphieon uniflorum 'Wisley Blue'

Iris rainbow mix

Iris reticulata

Iris 'Telstar'

Lily 'Pink Perfection'

Lily 'Dot Com'

Lily speciosum rubrum

Narcissus bulbocodium 'Golden Bells'

Narcissus caniculatus

Narcissus cyclamineus mix

Narcissus 'Jack Snipe'

Narcissus 'Jenny'

Narcissus 'Milk and Honey'

Narcissus 'Peeping Tom'

Narcissus 'Pheasant's Ete'

Narcissus plenus odoratus

Narcissus 'Sinopel'

Narcissus species mix

Narcissus 'Thalia'

Puschkinia libanotica

Sparaxis tricolor

Tulip bakeri 'Lilac Wonder'

Tulip 'Black Parrot'

Tulip 'Blushing Beauty'

Tulip 'Burning Heart'

Tulip 'Cummins'

Tulip 'Dordogne'

Tulip 'Fancy Frills'

Tulip 'Fantasy'

Tulip 'Flair'

Tulip 'Fringed Family'

Tulip Fringed mix

Tulip 'Going Baroque' mix

Tulip humilis 'Persian Pearl'

Tulip 'La Courtine'

Tulip 'Marilyn'

Tulip 'Orange Princess'

Tulip Parrot mix

Tulip Peacock mix

Tulip 'Pink Diamond'

Tulip 'Queen of Night'

Tulip sylvestris

Tulip Tall Sherbet mix

Tulip 'Tequila Sunrise'

Tulip 'Virichic'

Tulip 'Viridiflora'