The same thing happens every year. I buy my bulbs in good time, and then don't make time to plant them! I've got a huge bag of tulips and other bulbs to be planted...
The same thing happens every year. I buy my bulbs in good time, and then don't make time to plant them! I've got a huge bag of tulips and other bulbs to be planted, but it will soon be December.
Other things got in the way during October, and then I had an operation on my foot, preventing me from doing anything for three weeks except keep my foot up. This is very frustrating, especially as I keep looking down the garden and imagining the pots and compost on the greenhouse bench just waiting for me to get to work. They'll still be there at the end of the month when I'm back in action, but I'm worried the bulbs won't settle down quickly enough to catch up on lost time.
But late bulb planting isn't all my fault. I'm rather annoyed that the bulbs I ordered from one mail order supplier in October still haven't arrived. It was actually Kate Bradbury, one of my fellow bloggers on this site, who led me to make another bulb order.
In her blog Growing daffodils, Kate mentioned an early flowering narcissus called 'Rijnveld's Early Sensation' (sometimes just called 'Early Sensation') that promised blooms from January. I'd not heard heard of this daffodil before, so I had to grow it, and put an order in straight away. The only problem is that the bulbs still haven't arrived, although the nursery promises me they will do soon, and be in flower next year.
Another late bulb delivery this week was a collection of Festival multiflora hyacinths. Rather than producing a single flower stem per bulb the Festival hyacinth produces a mini forest of stems, each carrying a small head of flower. It comes in blue, pink and white, and I'm hoping that a single bulb per pot will produce a really good display.
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