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My First Flower Garder
9/28/05 10:54 pmWell, I've ordered some spring and early summer flowering bulbs for the little plot right in front of the house, where a godawful number of the wretched CAMELLIA was planted by the builder. No offense, but I don't care for camellias -- they smell like a New Orleans whorehouse. Altho I do wish I had a cutting off the red/white variegated one that was next to the old farmhouse... It was pretty, and a genuine heirloom plant. Hmmm, maybe a roadtrip is in order...
Anyway, here's what I've ordered:
The Complete Wildflower Bulb Garden. It has 'Buttercup' tulips, 'Minnow' mini narcissus, muscari, mixed-color crocus, chionodoxa, and mixed scilla. That should take care of flowering from late March to mid-to-late May.
Growers' Choice Asiatic Lily Collection. There's 50 bulbs in yellow, red, orange, white, and pink. No varieties.
Butterfly Garden Seed Collection. It has dill (a caterpillar host plant), Paint Brush zinnia, single French marigold, Sensation cosmos, Carpet-of-Snow alyssum, and mixed color verbena. It says these are annuals, but since we have such warm winters, they should act like biennials at least, maybe even perennials.
Dutch Master Daffodils. I love daffodils.
Anemones, or Windflowers.
I'm going to see how long the season lasts with these bulbs, and fill in with cheap annuals and whatnot from Home Depot or Wal-Mart. I've also got to figure out something to do around the big old oak tree, it has MORE of the hated camellias around IT (damn, the man had no imagination at all), so those are going to hit the road and something else will go in. I may go for a ground cover type of thing, maybe English ivy and impatiens. The tree will look extremely cool with ivy growing up it.
Lord, me grubbing around in the dirt. Who'd have thunk it.
Lorri
Anyway, here's what I've ordered:
The Complete Wildflower Bulb Garden. It has 'Buttercup' tulips, 'Minnow' mini narcissus, muscari, mixed-color crocus, chionodoxa, and mixed scilla. That should take care of flowering from late March to mid-to-late May.
Growers' Choice Asiatic Lily Collection. There's 50 bulbs in yellow, red, orange, white, and pink. No varieties.
Butterfly Garden Seed Collection. It has dill (a caterpillar host plant), Paint Brush zinnia, single French marigold, Sensation cosmos, Carpet-of-Snow alyssum, and mixed color verbena. It says these are annuals, but since we have such warm winters, they should act like biennials at least, maybe even perennials.
Dutch Master Daffodils. I love daffodils.
Anemones, or Windflowers.
I'm going to see how long the season lasts with these bulbs, and fill in with cheap annuals and whatnot from Home Depot or Wal-Mart. I've also got to figure out something to do around the big old oak tree, it has MORE of the hated camellias around IT (damn, the man had no imagination at all), so those are going to hit the road and something else will go in. I may go for a ground cover type of thing, maybe English ivy and impatiens. The tree will look extremely cool with ivy growing up it.
Lord, me grubbing around in the dirt. Who'd have thunk it.
Lorri
