Quite a bit of bulbs there.

That will be a nice display in the spring.
Here, I am rushing to get the bulbs in before the ground freezes.
And you are waiting for it to be cool enough to plant them.

WOW

Planted Tuesday:

50 each N. 'Ice Follies' and N. 'Geranium' in the front garden, plus 6-bulb clumps of six different varieties of oriental hyacinth down that side of the driveway. (It seemed only right to put fragrant bulbs where I had to pull out the elderly lavender hedge.)

25 'Barrett Browning' (white, small orange-rimmed cup) and 35 'Dutch Master' (classic big yellow) among the Chocolate Peppermint lining the other side of the driveway.

I just realized I'm nearly 100 bulbs short of a kilobulb this year... I'll have to snap up some little bulbs on sale! (Most of the bulbs from the ADR sale are "big" daff & tulip bulbs, so I'm not eager to try for 2 KB this year.) Hmm, I am putting in a few hundred bulbs for my in-laws at Thanksgiving, though, does that count toward my total?

I think if you are doing the planting then it all counts!

all right, then! Wouldn't want to fall short of the mark this year...

but but then I don't have an excuse to order more little bulbs...

You can still order and just go over on the count.

I planted Barret Browning a few years ago.They never performed well and didnt appear after the second season.
I also planted Bellsong the same year ,they dont multiply as other mini daffs do but do appear every year.

Crit, I've got 950 bulbs to plant. I'm going to have to find 50 bulbs to plant to be kilo bulb planter this year. My biggest bulb planting was over 5000 bulbs 1 year, then 3000 the next. As I run out of room, my count keeps going down.

Hmmmm, now which 50 bulbs should I get? I think I'm going to wait for some of the late fall sales to get some deals.

BTW, Colorblends sent a beautiful gift, a lovely book about tulips in the wild. It has great pictures.

http://www.colorblends.com/img...

Get some of these!

Humilis Violacea. Stunning Hot pink species tulips that really look like pink crocus.

Oh my! Rita, those are gorgeous!!!!

I'm surrounded by the Netherland Bulb Co, and Scheepers catalogs, so many bulbs to choose from, so little garden space. What's a bulbaholic supposed to do😱😱

They are very small but they are stunning. Plus the fact that they come back each year so that is truely great. I got 50 of them last fall but I was so stunned by how pretty they are that I have 100 more that I bought to plant this fall.

Also I found these red Humilis types at Brent& Beckies, so I ordered them too.

https://store.brentandbeckysbu...

oooh, yes, the little "wild" tulips! Can't say a bad thing about any of them... although the voles (and squirrels, maybe?) will eat them. A few years back, I put in what I thought would be a beautiful combination of little red tulips little blue & white muscari... got one tulip bloom, just one, in a sea of white & blue... and that one was gone by the following spring.

Squirrels had better stay away from them as I am planting a lot of small flowered Species tulips this fall. Sorry that you lost yours, they are so pretty.

All of your planting sounds great!
Years ago, I would try to be a kilobulb planter-
now,---- I'll be lucky to get half a kilo in!

There is another upside planting the smaller species tulips. It is easier to get those small bulbs planted.

The squirrels and chipmunks do a number on the tulips and crocus bulbs here. Someone on another gardening website mentioned sprinkling Milorganite to deter them. This year was the worst. All summer long I would find partially eaten tulip bulbs all over the garden.

I just placed an order with the Netherland Bulb Co. They're a little cheaper for the bulbs, and they send nice ones. They don't have the variety like Colorblends or Van Engelen, but I've been very happy with the bulbs I've received from them, that bloom beautifully in the spring. My order:

100 Tulip Red Hot Blend
300 Large Flowering Crocus Mix
9 Allium Globemaster

The weather is getting cooler here faster than it did last year, with days in the 60's and nights in the 30's starting next Wednesday. I'm going to be able to start planting my bulbs sooner than I thought.

Annette : I have a few Globemasters.What a great addition to the spring garden.

I'm going to plant the Allium in a cluster on my back hill. I've planted other Allium varieties in the past, including Globemaster, however, they didn't bloom. This past spring the foliage came up but no blooms again. I decided to give them another try.

Jo Ann, any good as to how to get the Alliums to bloom?

What is a kilobulb?

I amazed at the big amount of bulbs y'all plant!