I have 300 tulips due to arrive on Wednesday. They will be chilled in the fridge for two months prior to planting.

Well, I'm coming off a daffodil addiction so I am working on expanding to different types. I'm doubling down on some successes from last year.

I'm ordering more F. Persica although I'm not yet certain of the year two performance of the bulbs that flowered this Spring. Just loved it and the super long bloom time.

Hyacinth Spring Symphony. Also a repurchase. Great color and long lasting.

Erythronium pagoda - New for the woods

Eranthis hyemalis - New as underplanting in main garden

Tulip Barcelona - New to fill in pink line of tulips in front of bushes (I'll be laying cayenne pepper and some wire caging to deter pests).

Galanthus nivalis flore pleno - New - for main garden.

Saffron crocus - kinda new. I'll be tucking it in all over. I planted a few fall crocus last year of different types and haven't seen them yet. Might be too early....or critters ate them. Probably should skip a year to see, but living in the wild side here!

Edited to add that I plan to buy some mixes for my pots which I absolutely love. They bloom earlier and are a lot of fun. Anything that performs well goes into the garden and I give away the rest which are perfectly fine and enjoyable bulbs.

SoCal, we were posting at the same time! I love seeing your tulips - 300 is quite the show!

Alliums (lots), camassias, narcissus - the last 2 being my bread and butter plants for my wood and the allium because I am in the grip (again) of a slight craze.

So, with huge restraint (and lack of loot), I ordered around 600...but only the cheapies - none of those enormo-bulbs (which I am not overly fond of) such as Gladiator, Globemaster et al...but quite a few daintier ones including a few completely unknown to me. A.amplectens 'Graceful Beauty', a. neapolitianum, a.multibulbosum are my whites, along with pink a.Silver Spring, (a.nigrum?) A.Eros (unifolium), A.Pink Jewel (multibulbosum), and A.cameleon (poss. unifolium) Purple Rain (jesdianum), Violet Beauty (stipitatum), Purple Sensation (aflatunense), A,angulosum, A,atropurpureum, the wine red drumstick allium, a,sphaerocephalum

Plus seeds for a.scorodoprasum, a.narcissiflorum and a.insubiricum.

Getting 500 smaller camassias (esculenta) as the deer tend to nip the tops of the taller leichtlini and caeruleum...but these have turned out to be one of the best naturalising bulbs for a woodland clearing (along with narcissus).

The erythroniums have been a brilliant addition to the small woodland garden...but I very much regret planting a clutch of tazettas in there. True, they look good when they bloom...but the foliage is lush and longlasting, flopping horribly over my still diminutive woodland geraniums and anemones. Far, far better to naturalise them in grass.

Yep, I recall your tulips, socalgirl (I had a tulip moment last year also). Bulbs should be generously planted, I think (and you clearly do).

Sigh, those hundreds sound amazing Camp! Alliums don't like me even though I like them (they peter out in my clay, but seem to do amazing in drier climates). You reminded me that I wanted to try the drumsticks in the garden. Going to amend the list for my order.....

I have seen zero erythroniums in my area which should send up warning bells, but I'm giving them a try anyway.

Adding to my mom's new place in Ohio

1000 Crocus biflorus ssp. weldenii 'Miss Vain'

1000 Anemone blanda 'white splendor'

100 Hyancinthoides hispanica 'white city'

100 Narcissus 'Princess Zaide'

All white sounds very pretty! Princess Zaide looks amazing with the green eye. I'm reminding myself I don't need anymore daffodils....

It won't be all white when we are done but white is a very safe base against which to play off another color bloom. We put in 500 Crocus t. 'roseum' and 500 Scilla siberica 'alba' in the front yard last year. I think we will be doing a bunch of different purple species crocus in the back next year. Going to leave it just the roseum and some miss vain in the front.

Let me brag a little in saying I have neither ordered nor purchased any new bulbs and have not even accepted any free bulbs (ignoring snowdrops of course, they're too small to count). I think I'm taking a year off but will look forward to seeing and hearing about all these plantings come up and do well next spring.

I wonder when I should start thinking about a suitable reward? Maybe if I can get rid of a couple hundred more daffodils next summer I'll treat myself to a few new ones. That kind of defeats the purpose, but it sure is fun!

Katob, I swore in a thread earlier this year I wasn't buying any bulbs - I believed it at the time. I then started a modest list that grew bigger each time I went over it.

Good for you for editing your collection.

You see right through me, don't you ;)

Great additions everyone!

socalgal, 300 tulips will surely brighten up your spring garden.

posierosie, I look forward to see pics of your potted bulbs bloomers. i really enjoyed seeing them this past spring. They were very nice!

Camp, I get dizzy reading all the botanical names of your allium bulbs which some I cannot even pronounce. I don't know how you remember their spellings. Anyway, i am trying to envision your woodland space with all these bulbs and others that are already there. All I can say is it must be quite a sight in spring when they burst into blooms if bulb catalogs are any guide.

Nil13, your Mom's garden will look spectacular in the moonlight. If I have the kind of space that will allow for mass bulb plantings, I will certainly do what you have planned for your Mom. It will certainly produce an awesome spring show.

Katob, you and I are in the same boat. I have not placed any orders for fall bulbs this year. I am trying to sit on my hands. I am trying to convince me that there are no more space left! But I am sure I can easily pursuaded to purchase some if there is a good sale. :) (and then a mad scramble to plant them somewhere)

Looks like there will be a lot of awesome bulb displays this coming spring! I didn't order very many this year but am waiting on....

10 Orienpet Lily Conca d'Or
100 Tulip American Dream
50 Tulip Silver Parrot

Possibly will pick up some more of the common ones like giant crocus and grape hyacinths from local stores.

Sandy, what a nice order! I got some orientpet lilies last year. They didn't grow 6ft, but I hear they take some time to settle in and get really big. I have hopes for this year.

I have had horrible luck with anemone blanda, most of it struggles along only to die out after a few years. I suspect the soil here gets too dry over the summer. This of course is particularly insulting since it used to grow wild in the leaf piles and weed patches around a run down house I used to rent back in the day.

Campanula I don't think you understand. If you put all my new snowdrops together you could probably hold them in a single hand. Hardly anything and that's the story I'm sticking with.

If this makes anyone feels better about their purchases, I placed an order with Kvan Bougandien for some tulip and daffodil bulbs today. They have a 25% OFF. I need some early bloomers so I bought 50 Tete-a-tete daffs, 100 mixed fosteriana tulips and 25 Perfect Lady daffs.

Makes me feel much better, actually! I've been getting their emails and have been resisting so far (no promises when the weather turns cooler...)

I tried to resist, posierosie, but I can't hold out any longer. It has become a bad habit of mine but I must place at least one order a year otherwise the "itch" will not go away. LOL

Karen, I am with you! I'm not even sure where I will be stashing these new ones, but I'm telling myself that certainly there's room!

Well, the sale has begun, at least at Costco anyway. Just picked up 3 bags of tulips: 150 bulbs for $25 of 6 varieties.

I have species tulips, species crocus, and camassia arriving in the mail today. It will be time for my mad squirrel impression as I frantically dig holes, drop bulbs into them, and pat them down. I'm sure you can imagine.

I'll have more of each (diff species), along with corydalis, and brodiea in about two weeks from a different vendor.

I totally get you dbarron about the frantic planting part. But when spring comes and the bulbs put on the show, everything just seems to fall in place and so worth it. Do your species tulips return?

LOL. Karen. I did a 400 Bulbs and 2 dozen Globemasters.

Then was at Costco and saw the 50 packs for sooooo cheap. I kinda blinked as I knew they couldn't be that cheap. It did not say markdown but I suspected it had to be a sale price. I picked up 3 single var. bags myself just for a excuse to find as filler spots !

You guys are making me regret letting my Costco membership lapse. Not enough to pay the fee or fight the parking/lines at my local one, though!

Well, last year I ordered a couple of mixed species collections and I watched how they did. Of course that doesn't tell me much about their over-summering and returning, but I then used that data and ordered bulk of the species that I thought had the best chance (and also a tendency to naturalize..in some cases almost as weeds).

The winners I thought were tulipa linifolia, sylvestris, and turkestanica. I think the latter two have a very good chance of propagation via stolons in my yard, as well as reseeding.

Hee, so I have chosen the weeds in the hope that they will thrive (and I actually did like the plants/flowers last year). I may diversify some more in future years based on what my misc collections do. There was a lot of humilis in the collection, if it thrives another year, I'll add more of those too.

The scheduling ending up being tight. I got my bulb order the day before I was supposed to fly back home. 2200 bulbs by myself in a day. Thank goodness for my bulb auger. I'm beat.

I got a big bulb auger myself but faster way but a bit more backbreaking is tarp & shovel. I can't even see how others use those bulb planter thingamajigs..

2K bulbs. Must be quite the fireworks display !

Thanks dbarron for the info on species tulips. I will have to try them again.

a1an, though they are not 50% off, they were good enough for me. I think they were sold at $12 originally.

posierosie, your Costco sounds like a popular nightclub! Mine is like that on the weekends and Holidays but not too bad during weekdays.

WOW, Nil13! 2200 bulbs in a day! You must have done it piece work style or you have an incredible bulb auger or both. Let's say you planted the bulbs in 10 hours. That would mean that you planted 220 bulbs per hour, about 2 bulbs per minute! Incredible! Can I ask what was the bulb auger that you used?

I've always gotten my bulbs from CB or VE.

For specials, or when I want good bulbs, these will still remain the source.

However, granted the alliums and narcissus was nothing great at Costco, the tulips if one treats them as annuals, seems like a no brainer . 1st year buying bulbs at Costco and all were firm and healthy. Not the largest bulb of them all, but while I Home Depot today, I decided to eyeball and the bulbs at Costco I would say would be a smigen bigger than the Homers/Lowes.

Karen, good question- I would be interested in that bulb auger (and some of Nil's energy!)

A1an, I did my share of shovel work too for bigger bulbs like Narcissus. But under trees, the shovel can be a pain due to roots. The auger doesn't have a hard time with roots unless it is like a big maple with a crazy mat of surface roots.

The auger is a Power Planter 3x12 and I use it with a corded DeWalt drill. Cordless drills won't get you very far. The soil had a little more moisture this year, so it was nice and loose. I drill a bunch of holes and then go back and stick the bulbs in. With Anemone and Crocus, I put 2 bulbs in each hole. I sort of tuck them on opposite sides of the hole. Planting goes pretty quickly that way.

Heh. I was using my PP to make some holes for my Globemaster. The OCD was like, I'm not sure if I'm coming in the same depth for each one (even though I blue taped the stop point). Decided to resort back to my trusty shovel . Different strokes for different folks I suppose

After a long winter where the soil get's compacted, prior to annuals, I do like to use my PP on the ~hole hawg~ and the D handle just to aid in turning over the soil in the veg beds. It makes life a whole lot easier....anything that lessens my time in garden so I can hang with my newborns-toddlers, I'm game.

Thanks for sharing Nil!

I bought 3 allium schubertii, 1 martagon lily, and a 6 pack of a new daffodil. I was at the closing day of my favorite nursery and only did it to be polite, it's not like I needed them!

10 bulbs is a model of restraint. :). What type of daffodil? Something frilly?

It's 'Eaton Song', definitely not frilly, but smaller bloom clusters which look like they might be similar to something like 'Thalia', just with a yellow/ orange combo rather than white. Just an impulse buy, I liked the picture ;)

I dropped by Home Depot and to my husband's horror, they have their 50% off bulb sale. I of course bought twice as much I would have ordinarily. :D

I bought a few weeks ago potting soil, sand, pebbles and compost. I'm going to create a loose potting mixture and lasagna method several pots for Spring.

I got my saffron crocus in the mail and layered with a Spring crocus over my tete a tete bulbs today. It was nice to see green shoots starting under ground and nice white roots starting as well.

It's now a waiting game till these time capsules unearth. 6 months and counting

Lol, 6 months and it'll be summer again....most of the bulbs planted this month will be flowering in 4 months for me. Some quite a bit sooner, like early February for the snow crocuses, maybe earlier if it's a mild winter.

stop it dbarron. That's just being mean.

If there's a warm spell, if the snow melts, if the sun hits a few parts of the yard just right... there might be a snowdrop in February. That would be 4 months for us as well ;)

I just bought more snowdrops this week and it's 19F out right now. I may have to pot them up and force them for January!

Yeah, I bought snowdrops a long time ago (when I was in college I think), they're still in my parents yard..but don't do much flowering :( I think we're too warm. The clumps are close to a foot wide though :)

I'm hoping February again, but March is more likely for blooms. Others in warmer zones will need to keep the hope alive and post lots of pretty pictures while others are waiting on some warmth. ;)

I bought a 50 snowdrops - flore pleno. Finally my Van Engelen order came a few days ago - just in time for the super cold weather although I had spoken with a super nice representative and she said mid-October delivery (grrrrr). The better place for it would be the back, but I have learned to plant early flowering bulbs on my path from the door to the car as those will actually be seen. I'm planning on layering winter aconite and snowdrops over known areas of daffodils.

Anyone in my area grow eranthis/ winter aconite? I've never seen it here, but this is not an exotic flower type of area (although to be fair there are a few nice surprises here and there ;)).

Eranthis isn't an exotic and in my experience and zone, should be planted with some shade. It wilts terribly in the brutal mid-day sun and often ruins the flowers far too soon. Of note, eranthis severely disliked drying out, make sure you find a vendor that ships them moist in peat or something. After you get them going, they reseed freely...takes a few years for seedlings to flower though.

I've never seen an eranthis in my area... it might as well be some rare exotic considering that, but two hours south around Philly Pa I've seen sheets of them in bloom. All were in a woodland type setting.

Here they seem to like a spot which stays damp during the early spring and then is somewhat shaded when they're dormant. In another two or three years I'm hoping to have hundreds based on the number of seedlings coming along :)

Thanks Katob, I'm probably an average of you and DBarron and Philly is just a 3+ hour away so I'm thinking I have a chance. Just have never seen them around here - and all I do on walks and drives is peer into gardens!