I've only done a few in containers but this thread over on Perennials might make your eyes bulge as to the quantities some people are dealing with. Bulbs by the thousand

Holy cow. Well, when one starts panting bulbs you always find out you could have used a "few more". 25 bulbs really don't go all that far, and I've planted in the hundreds - but thousands? That would be a chore to say the least! It would look spectacular when in bloom tho.

I used to frequent the Perennial forum, I need to check in there more often. Thanks.

I planted a dozen lily bulbs last Sunday that I purchased from the local lily society sale. Oh, and a few daffodils. I get lazy when it comes to planting bulbs. I do find that the daffodils have spread throughout the garden, I guess by seed, and they are sprouting up nicely every year in places that I never planted them.

I went a little crazy a few weeks ago and planted daffodils, dutch iris, alliums, and anemones. Trying to fill in my silly geometric lines of daffs (I know, but it felt like a good idea at the time). And this morning I was seduced by a few more boxes at Sam's Club. Daffodils and tulips. I'm taking a chance on the tulips - they don't do all that well down here and I have squirrels that like to "help" me garden.

I'd like to plant tulips but I want is mostly, if not all, white tulips with red stripes. Currently I have a mishmash of solid red and solid yellows, some oranges. I like the orange but still think it would look great to have all the white/red. Every Spring I tell myself I'm going to tag the foliage of the ones I want to dig up but never do. Walmart had a deal on a bag of white/red striped tulips but I wasn't quite sure the red stripe would bloom a true red or pinkish. Really couldn't tell by the photo on the package.

All sounds beautiful... I seem to have a brown thumb when it comes to bulbs... I have some but never as I picture them! My spots don't get enough sun or something... always a problem as gardens mature in my experience.

Not too many this year, relocating a dozen or so "Barbabos" a red fringed tulip from a half barrel out into the garden and a few allium bulbs "Double Bubble" and Karataviense "Ivory Queen", I used to have the regular pink one but it finally disappeared and I haven't been able to find any of those for several years. I also have a few pots of small daffs in pots bought in the spring still looking for a nook to pop them in.

Annette

One day I went around and pulled/dug up as many Grape Hyacinths as I could, put them in a 5gl. bucket and sat it out by the road with a "Free - Take Some, Take All" sign and some plastic bags. I think I must have had only one taker, and after three days I brought them in for the last time and finally dumped them in the garden trash bin. There are still so many out in the garden, they are like weeds! Especially annoying when they grow between the pavers.

Lass, were your white daffs called "Peruvian Daffodils"? I think that's what they are called, look similar to what you are describing. Mount Hood is one the best white daffs, very hardy and last many years.

Picked up a pack of mixed 'Mount Hood' daffodils and a purple tulip variety at Costco a few days ago. Tomorrow will pot them up and drop the pot into the vegetable garden beds for the winter. In the spring the pot will be dug up and placed on my deck before they bloom.

Wish my grape hyacinth out front would multiply. They seem to be dying out. Have some in pots that are treated as above to bloom on the deck during spring.

I planted just a one bag of 16 daffodils and another bag of 12 pink tulips. That's it. Oh, and some lilies that picked up at the society plant sale along with some daffodils. I need to plant some grape hyacinths. Sounds like they are easy to grow.

I did 30 crocus and 25 fritillaria. I do hope some of last year's bulbs come back and we get a nice show. I do not have a lot of room so just try to keep it simple.

Which fritillaria did you plant?

I was good for a while since I swore I wouldn't buy anything else that needed planting until all earlier purchases were planted, but then I got 200 crocus at an end-of season sale. Cheap enough that if they get eaten by voles I won't be heartbroken. The 6 Globemaster Alliums will get protected since although the voles don't seem to eat them, they do tunnel around the roots, which doesn't make them happy.

I just plant the common checkerboard variety meleagris. Love them.

Mom found the 75% clearance sale at Lowe's. She just planted five big bags of bulbs! Tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and grape hyacinths :)

I'd better stay away from Lowes.

I am in the midst of planting 50 yellow and 50 red tulips!! I do love them! I have some out in my front bed and some along my patio in the back!!! I got started kind of late but better late than never!

Joann

I put about 90 more tulip bulbs in our pocket garden out front. Parrots and frilled ones - there is just no more space there - lol. I can't dig because I hit something else every time I put a spade in. I just would love a lush hit of colour come spring.

I tried Peruvian Daffs - they are not hardy here so I put them in pots, but they eventually died off. Sigh, though they were not perfumed, as promised on the package.

Schoolhouse - I'd have taken your grape hyacinths!! Another thing that is hard to grow, for me at least.

Nancy.

I dumped the whole bucket of gr.hyacinths in the big yard waste receptacle in the barn. I don't remember if they are still there or I hauled the whole thing out to the curb for the trash man last time. The bulbs still had their green foliage, ranged in size from tiny to good sized. I wonder how complicated it would be to mail them to Canada? Is it even allowed? At least I think you live in Canada, correct?

I think they wouldn't make it over the border!! I am always pleased when seeds make it to the US. Sigh, I love the look of a swath if them.

Nancy.

Well, grape hyacinths multiply by seed too. If I was smart I'd shear off the dried tops before they started to drop the seed everywhere. Maybe next year? ; )

There's always next year. ;-)

I've been done planting for a couple of weeks now. I added some tall lilies, and a few more crocus.

I planted more grape hyacinths, Valerie Finnis, which is a true blue color. Mine do well, but I've only had a few show up where I didn't plant them. It's funny how something is a weed in some areas but well-behaved, or hard to grow in others.

I also planted 50 more Marilyn tulips. I wish I would have gotten more, but like someone else mentioned, I run into so many bulbs when I'm trying to find spots for more of them. The lily flowering varieties have been very good about coming back for me, and I really like the shape of them. Ballade, Mariette, Red Shine, and Mona Lisa tulips have also been excellent at coming back... all lily flowering types.

I also went a bit overboard on the bigger, forcing type of hyacinths. I have to chill them first, but come February when things are still cold and gloomy, I hope to have the fragrance of hyacinths around the house. I really need a garden pick-me-up by then.