WooHoooooo!!!! Awesome!!!!! I can't believe you (and the rest of us!) are finally getting to see some blooms after all that hard work you put in last fall! It's truly amazing!

Your gardens just keep getting better and better with each passing year. I really like the Species Tulip humilis violacea. My daffs were just blooming nicely and we got snow. Not much, so I'm hoping they will stand back up. I had also planted some pansies in containers and think they will be fine. Had to move a few other annuals indoors that I hadn't planted in the ground yet. It shocks me that you can squeeze so much into already heavily planted beds. Makes it all very colorful.

Natalie thanks. I questioned my own sanity last fall when I had to plant those 4,999 bulbs. Of course now that things are blooming I have conveniently forgotten about how much work it is and am plotting this falls order of bulbs.

Thanks Susan. When I planned and planted my daylily beds I always planned to add bulbs around and between the daylilies. But it took me a long time to get to that plan as I rearranged those daylilies so many times until I got it more or less the way I wanted it. Then I put in lily bulbs and after that finially got to adding the spring bulbs. So I knew what I wanted but as anything in a garden, it takes time to achive the goal.

My daylily beds are full, I have a lot of daylilies but I haven't bought new ones in two years as I would have to get rid of something to replace it with something new. Don't feel like doing that so instead am really putting my efforts into the spring bulbs.

We like it, Rita.

Me too. I do love the way it looks when the bulbs are blooming. My inspiration was the left side front yard on spring of 2011. I had just created the daff terraces in those belgium blocks and then put 200 early tulips into that bottom section right in back of my two daylily rows.

The daffs looked great that year but the next I only had about half those early tulips come up. Well, the heck with this. I wasn't about to put up with the reduced disply. I wanted it to look like it did. Only even better!. I put 200 early tulips again in a trench in exactly the same spot which will soon bloom this year. I put 100 parrott tulips on back of the early tulips were I had nothing.

Then I put 100 Showwinner in between the daylilies in the second row. I but the humilis violacea species tulips in betwen the daylilies in the first row. And I put bunches of Firespray tulips in between those two daylily rows. Then the belgium block mini terraces have daylilies at each end. The daffs are in the middle. I put tulips in between the daylilies at each end. Oh and I added some crocus.

Eager to see them in full swing.

Yes, and that is only one section of garden. Lots going to be going on in other sections also. Nothing saiz spring to me like daffs and tulips blooming.

I'll be looking for the Species Tulip humilis violacea with the dark center up here. Love it!

My grandmother had a couple species tulips (I think T. tarda was one of them) massed in a bed for decades before she let lily of the valley take over. They weren't as flashy as that pink one, but I have a soft spot for them. I'd love to have masses of different species tulips and crocus one day. I added some crocus, muscari, hyacinth, tulips, and fritillaria to my garden last fall, but just small quantities--nothing like you Rita. I think I'd need to work out for a year in preparation for that kind of planting!

I am so pleased with that species tulip that I plan on getting more varieties this fall. I had avoided them before this because I thought not enough impact. Well, I see that is not true if they are placed properly.

Heck, just do one garden bed a year if that works for you. A garden is always changing anyway. Me, I am impatient and want everything at once.

I would really like to have Fritillaria meleagris along with perennial tulips and such. Warm winters and hot dry summers kind of put the nix on that, but I might try the species tulips.

Debra, do tulips grow in your area if you prechill them? If so then I figgure some types species tulips might work for you. But all tulips need some chill time.

We do get enough winter chill to grow tulips. I'm just lazy and want to only have to plant them once.

Ok, you want to plant once and be done. First off plant slightly deeper than normally advised. Then pick certain classes that are known to come back. Look at Species, Kaufmanniana, Greigii and Emperor tulip divisions. Ingore the other divisions. Hot dry summers are what most species are used to in their native lands. And dry is better than wet over the summer for all those other types of tulips over the summer.

Thank you, Rita.

Remember the dry summer doesn't affect them as they are not growing. Yet if it is wet over the summer (too wet) the bulbs can rot. I suspect many types of fancy tulips I plant rot over the summer so never come back.

Newyorkrita said:Natalie thanks. I questioned my own sanity last fall when I had to plant those 4,999 bulbs.

Don't worry Rita, you weren't alone. We were all questioning your sanity too!

But not too loudly because we wanted to see all 5,000 in bloom!!!