I was just wondering how you were doing at getting all those bulbs planted! How many are left to go? Or is that a depressing question?

I started Monday so been at it since then. But some days I don't do as much and sometimes I have a day like today when I get lots and lots done. No, I haven't counted up numbers of what I have done and what still needs doing. I just look at the stacks of bulbs in the to be planted piles and the empty boxes in the already finished piles.

A nice diversity of bulbs as I mostly have crocus, daffodils and tulips. But some others as well, like Chionodoxa and Anemones.

Can hardly wait to see photos in the Spring!

Oh yes, there will be lots of pictures.

I am in for the day. I really did get a lot accomplished today, as much or almost as much as yesterday. And am tired and achy but not over tired and really bad aching like I was yesterday.

This morning started out really cold. I had to wear my winter coat as I was freezing! But at least I was fashionable while planting as I had my new pom pom winter hat on. Good thing I was up on my fashions as some people from the neighborhood did stop to talk to me when they saw me out in the gardens planting.

I still have about half my tomato plants in, some of them I had to pull out so I could work and plant bulbs. One neighbor from the neighborhood asked me what I was gonna do with the green tomatoes on the pulled plants. I was gonna toss them so that neighbor was aghast at that idea and picked and took home all the green (and some just blushing) tomatoes I was throwing out. Too funny.

I had to pull those tomatoes I was trenching around the tomato gardens and planting crocus. So now those tomato beds are surrounded by crocus.



Tomato bed. You can see the area with no grass that is very near the brick edges. I dug all around and each side has 100 crocus planted.




Bean garden, I was so pleased with my tomato garden surrounded by crocus idea that I did the bean garden too. This was only 100 large flowered crocus spread all around. The Tomato garden has Tommies and tommies are small crocus. The bulbs for the tommies where about half the size as the bulbs for the large flowered ones.

Now look at this grassy slope. Not that there is much to see but I was planting hundreds of species crocus there on the slope.


And last but not least, planting still MORE crocus here in front of the Rose Half Round Front Yard Planters.

Kind of a mess from the digging of the wider trench needed. But little bulbs all set in there and ready for the dirt to go back. This trench has crocus toward the back with Chionodoxa set in front of it. The bulbs are small. Tommies are the size of a dime and Chionodoxa bulbs are smaller.


So dirt pushed back in and bulbs covered. It does look like a mess now with will look good later. Tomorrow I will go get some grass seed and reseed my dug up areas and get the dirt covered grass more neatened and cleaned up.

So for those of you that always wonder just where I put all those bulbs, I say you have to think outside the box. And this is one way that I manage to plant so many bulbs.

Oh, I love the look of that last photo with the multi-layered raised beds! Do you have another photo that shows it in relation to the surrounding area? I'm just a sucker for those type of stones and am trying to convince DH to get me a bunch of them for my birthday. Sigh, he just doesn't understand how someone could consider rocks a present.

I am really tired now but tomorrow will find some pictures of them when the roses are blooming. It really does look stunning.

That area was really difficult to design. I had that slope, I wanted to plant roses and create a cascading effect with the structure. The Rose Planters are what I came up with.

This one is another picture from today. Maybe shows more.

lots of people at the park today

Pretty much the same angle of the rose planter area that I showed yesterday. But today cleaned up and grass planted in the dug up area and then watered.



Already looks better there just from fixing it up.

Sigh, you're making me drool all over my keyboard!

Lots of raised beds or terraces here and many of them done with those landscape blocks like in some of those rose planters. This is my big raised backyard daylily bed that I call the plateau.

This morning it was sunny, got cloudy, now sprinkles. So will have to get back to my project of adding more bulbs here that I was working on.

There are no daffodils in the actual plateau. I do have daffs all over but not there. I am loading it just chock full of tulips. I had some in there this spring and it looked so nice so of course I decided on more, more, more.

And different classes of tulips too. I have Single Lates, Darwins, 4 different varieties of Emperors, Kaufmannianas, 4 types of species, double early tulips and single early tulips.

Love both walls! I'm very fond of rocks and bricks.

Lots and lots of walls and raised gardens here. Had no choice as otherwise couldn't make gardens in those areas.

Heh, guess I'd be kind of silly to complain about our property being too flat. But I do have to make raised beds if I want to plant in our soggy area.

I love raised beds. And the hilly areas where great opportunities to create some truly lovely hard scape.

I really like yours, Rita.

Post photos as you go, woofie.

Rita, Old House Gardens contacted me about the daffodils from the raffle saying they really weren't optimal for my area. Asked if okay to send something else, to which I said YES. They are being very generous with the substitutions, like double the number of bulbs and I am thinking of getting some tulips to put in with them. Recommendations?

It took me years to get all those raised gardens and walls in.

I don't really know what to recommend as far as tulips for your area. They will know much better than me. See what they choose for you, I bet they know best.

I do LOVE those broken tulips they have but I would NEVER plant them. The virus not only affects tulips but lilies also. Aphids can easily spread the disease. Not a problem if there is lots of room but in a common Suburban lot, things are too close together to risk it.

Yeah, hurray. Bulb planting finished. At least all those bulbs I had here and been working on are done. In ground and planted.

I did break down and make a few new bulb orders these past few days. But nothing much. A few tulips but mostly crocus. And crocus are very easy to plant.

I am tired so need a rest and I guess by then this last bunch of almost 600 bulbs will be here. I hate planting bulbs in November but looks like I will be planting bulbs in November after all.