Last month, I planted some daffodils and about 35 or so snowdrops. Luckily I prepped the areas previously so all I had to do was mark the post hole diggers with a Sharpie at the appropriate depth for the bulbs I was planting and plant away. The snowdrops I just used a hand held trowel that had marks for each inch depth. Made planting so much easier.

Good luck getting out there now after all the rain we have had and is still to come. In previous years, I always waited until the garden centers had sales and got the bulbs at 50% off but this year I decided to splurge and have the luxury of prepping the beds and then having the bulbs arrive.

Thanks for sharing. Good luck with the bulbs. Post
pics in the spring.

Several different varieties of tulips went in the beginning of last month, I just received some English Bluebell seed so will plant them in a pot and hope for the best.

Annette

No bulbs on clearance at our Lowes. In fact, I don't see any boxes anywhere anymore. What happened? One minute I see tulip and daffs, the next Amaryllis. Unless the Spring bulbs are hidden away in a corner somewhere I think they got rid of them already.

Could be that I wasn't at the right place at the right time, but to tell you the truth I didn't get a chance to check out any deals on Spring bulbs in other stores or nurseries.

If you are looking for high quality, healthy HUGE bulbs, check the sale at Brent & Becky's Bulbs (former owners of the Daffodil Mart).

http://www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com/spring/

All Spring flowering bulbs are 50% off until 6 pm on Monday, December 7 (except paper whites and amaryllis). If you see something you want but the web store says "SOLD OUT", give them a call. Some bulbs listed as "Sold Out" are available in small quantities from the store.

I lost control and now have a huge basket of daffodils, tulips, hyacinthus, Dutch iris, muscari, daylilies, etc. to plant ... if it will stop raining.

lol. I didn't plant any this year. I do remember the old house, after the reno, planting bulbs in soup!! They all came up, and I needed a bath, big-time.

Nancy.

I put in a ton of bulbs this fall and can't wait 'til spring just to see how different the yarden looks!
All from Colorblends
100 Bloomsday-a blend of red,orange,and yellow peony tulips
25 Gudoshnik-I can't even begin to discribe-you hafta see it!
50 hyacinths of every color I could find-love the smell
100 crocus-blues, purples and whites
100 Siberian squill
and a bunch of misc tulips and daffs that were needing to be moved.
Oh I can't wait!
-B

Schoolhouse- Check the outdoor garden section. Lowe's had bulbs inside the store a few weeks ago for 75% off (I got some) but when mom and I went last week, they were outside with the Christmas trees in the garden area. Good luck :)

I bought my tulips from Lowes a few weeks ago when they were 50% off. They are chilling in the frig for now. I swore off bulbs some years ago because in our climate they don't always come back but at 50% off I'll give them a try again. I am also planting a few unusual ones, at least for me. I bought these little ones too: puschkinia, iris danfordiae, iris reticulata . I really wanted chionodoxa but couldn't find it. They have it at Brent & Becky's but there was additional shipping for my area. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Spring to see what comes up!

I planted some Globemaster Allium bulbs. I always wanted to try those. And also some Angelique double tulips. I love pink! I hope they come up. I got these from Tulip World. Last year I bought a bunch of pink tulips from Wal-Mart and planted them in huge pots and they never bloomed. These new ones, I put in the ground.

OK, you asked for it! I have a dry rocky west-facing slope, has irrigation but it is hard to keep wet.

So I planted bulbs that should naturalize even here in zone 9. The species tulips do not need cooling and actually increase every year. YAY!

25 Iris reticulata
25 Leucojum Graveteye Giant
25 Tulip Clusiana Chrysantha
20 Tulip Saxatalis
20 Tulip Sylvestris
25 Narcissus Baby Moon
25 Narcissus Bulbocodium
25 Narcissus Constantinople
25 Narcissus Thalia
25 Narcissus Quail
25 Narcissus Avalanche
20 Narcissus Erlicheer
10 Sparaxis Mixed
10 Freesia yellow
25 Ixia Panorama
10 Chinodoxia Blue Giant

These were all planted at various level on top and around each other in a curving random pattern about 2 feet wide going down the slope about 2 feet to the right of a set of curving railroad-tie steps.

Directly to the right and left of the steps, level with each step, I used concrete blocks to build small terraces.

Scattered among the terrace beds I planted the following lilies:

Asiatic:
3 Black out
3 Vermeer
6 Mango
6 Commander in chief
3 Embrun
3 Navona
6 Lollipop

Oriental:

6 Amazing
3 Casa Blanca
6 Stargazer
6 Crystal Pink
3 Aubade

LA Hybrids:

3 Pavia
3 Fangio
3 Birgi

Orienpet:

Yelloween

Trumpet:

Unnamed Pink
Garden Pleasure
Regal
African Queen
Golden Splendor

Species

3 Pardalinum
6 Black Beauty

Misc

15 Lycoris white yellow and red
10 Oxblood Lily

In addition I packed each terrace with perennials and annuals that I wintersowed last year and this year. It should be spectacular! I will try to post a pic before and after.

I bought bulbs at Home Depot and another store 2 months ago. This is my first time planting bulbs of any sort. I just planted them November 30, and the very next day we got our first snowstorm...how's that for luck! The bulbs I bought are:

8 Dutch Iris - blue magic
15 Dutch Iris - purple sensation
15 Dutch Iris - symphony

3 Blue Allium aflatunense
3 Allium Bulgaricum - Sicilian honey garlic
12 Mountain Bells mixed alliums - moly, ostrowskianum, & neopolitanum
12 Allium sphaerocephalon - drumstick

24 Tulip - angelique
24 Daffodil - mount hood

My only worry is that I planted them too close to each other. Spacing recommendations said to leave 4" between each bulb, but I know I left usually 1"-2". They were just so tiny.

You guys are making me wish I had planted bulbs! Ok, I'll go back and check Lowes again but I sure don't remember seeing any while I browsed the Christmas greenery out in the nursery section. It was so COLD out there, maybe I didn't snoop around long enough. The only thing I'd really be tempted to buy is daffodils.

The grocery store and a hardware store had one of those big racks full of boxes of Spring bulbs, 2 for $5, and I kept looking at the Mediterranean Bells but each time walked right by. Now I wish I had bought some.

I had sworn off bulbs quite some time ago except for daffodils due to squirrels and chipmunks. The munkers just mock me as they dig up and eat freshly planted bulbs.
But we haven't had many squirrels around for a few years and we have decreased our population of chipmunks.

This year we planted hundreds of tulips mainly because of the poem Welcome to Holland. I heard this poem years ago and then had forgotten all about it. It just resurfaced for me again this fall and I thought it would be a great idea to plant bunches of tulips. We have a special-needs son who is the greatest joy in our lives. I was especially happy that he helped me plant about 10 bulbs! That was a big step for him this year to help in the garden! I can't wait to see the beauty this spring!!

Can someone tell me if something I read is true?

I have been buying the 50% off bulbs at Home Depot his year and have them in my refrigerator. Some I put in pots, some in paper bags. My plan was to grow then indoors this year then plant them outside next fall.

However, I read an article online that said most bulbs are worthless once they've been forced inside. REALLY??? :-(

NOT!!! Just make you feed them before and after. Some people treat bulbs like annuals, but the fact of the matter is that they are heavy feeders. Most of the bulbs we get from big box stores are smaller in size than the mail order ones, still - feed, feed, feed!!

Here in Ottawa, we have a huge tulip festival in May, courtesy of the Dutch Government. Their Queen took refuge here in WWII, and the current Queen was born here, albeit in a section of the Civic Hospital declared Dutch soil for the occasion. We receive 10's of thousands of tulips bulbs every year, but they apparently compost them at the end of bloom time. Less than perfect, but I'd take 'em.

Nancy.

They dropped the price today to 90% off at the store. I now have 400 daffs to plant out this week. Glad I have a bulb auger.

Well I succumbed to the Brent and Becky bulb sale yesterday (today is the last day to order). Thankfully I just ordered 50 anemones and 30 crocus and they will be placed in the beds where I previously planted daffodils and snowdrops.

I only have HD close by, but I sent my mom to her Lowes to check! I said "If they're 90% off, buy everything!"

She sighed and said okay. haha. :-)

bulb auger or none..that's a lot of planting to do! Glad it's you instead of me. Last year, I planted 90 daffs and I'm sure that Mr. Squirrel dug up a lot because not that many bloomed. What does one put down to keep the squirrel away from the bulbs? A week or two ago, I sprinkled an entire container of cayenee red pepper on the beds where I saw them digging. If it isn't deer tracks in the flower beds, there's little holes dug by squirrel or chipmunk. It is frustrating. But we haven't seen the chipmunk in a long time; I think it is mostly the squirrels. Somebody has been eating or attempting to eat our snapdragons in one particular spot. They must not like it because I see it dug up and laying on the sidewalk, and there's a hole next to it, signs somebody's been digging. Three guesses and the first two don't count!