Rita

Your gardens & pics are always gorgeous!

You must pack a lot of plants in and/or you have a lot of land! I've seen pics of your gardens!

Ah-ha! One of the secrets of your amazingly beautiful spring gardens revealed, Rita.

Thanks for sharing this great tip!

Rita is the bulb queen! This is a great tip

Marilyn, I don't have a lot of land, I just cram a lot in.

It hardly takes up any more room to do this way than just some tulips or daffs alone and it gives you a longer season of spring blooms. And I am all about lots of blooms for my garden.

Dutchlady1 said:Rita is the bulb queen! This is a great tip

Rita: Beautiful Daff's and Tulips! I too have seen photo's of your lovely gardens and you sure have a special touch when it comes to bulbs! Those last 3 photo's make me want to move somewhere where I could grow tulips!

I LOVE tulips. I am afraid that tulips are my favorite flower.

This shows why we all look forward to spring and photos of your garden. Your hard work every fall pays off in gorgeous spring color. Very nice article Rita!

Thank you.

Here is a side bar....hope it is OK..I went to one of the big box stores today and they had a huge display of bags of 60 bulbs for $9.00. Pretty pictures and tempting to the average person. The problem is of the 60 bulbs 10 were tulips or daffs....the balance grape hyacinths. To me grape hyacinths are pretty but verge on being a noxious weed.. You get what you pay for,

I would rather just buy bags of just only tulips or bags of just only hyacinths. I wouldn't want those grape hyacinths myself either! But I have in the past gotten nice bags of tulips very cheaply at Home Depot. Problem is they sell out as fast as they come in so you just have to be lucky that you happened to be at HD and happened to see them. 3 or 4 days later, they are totally gone.

And they get them in so early. I don't really want bags of tulips to take home in August.

I agree Rita. I have found nice bulbs at HD if you get there at the right time, I remember when the nurseries here had nice bulbs loose in big bins. I bought many over the years this way but often found that the consumer before me had mixed them up.

I only buy on line these days. Bulbs come to my door, I can get exactly what I want. But I bought locally and at HD for years when I only planted a few bulbs each fall.

In the l960's my Father bought a large order of bulbs from Scheepers. I was planting them and listening to a portable radio and heard he news the John F Kennedy had been assassinated. A few days later I remember sitting at the dinner table with my family watching the funeral on a little portable TV. I remember I planted the tulips and daffs in clumps. When they bloomed Dad did not like it. He wanted them in rows.

No wonder you remember. I think we all remember where we were when Kennedy was assassinated.

Planting daffodils with tulips also protects the tulip bulbs from squirrels.

>> I think we all remember where we were when Kennedy was assassinated.

I remember.

Once I asked a younger lady whom I was trying to get close to where SHE was.

She said "I read about that ... in HISTORY."

I didn't read it in history, I just remember.

"I just remember". Me too!