Ha ha. I have not yet ordered my lilies for this spring. I am dithering because I don't know extactly what I will do in the front yard yet and I do want to order lots from Lily Garden this year. Did order a fair amount there last year but more lilies from Brent and Beckies this year.

I wonder if there is a bulb forum on this thing. I just ordered spring flowering bulbs from Brent and Beckies. 370 tulips and 240 daffodils of different types plus some other spring flowering bulbs. I figgured if I order now instead of waiting to the fall, I am committed and I have to plant them. When I wait until the fall, I only get afew because I think of the work of planting.

I haven't quit Gardenweb or Daves and I still am crazy about my roses. But decided that I needed to see what this place was all about.

I love new gardeners ~ welcome, Judy! The day we stop learning should be the day we die.

When you're just starting out, this is my #1 rule ~ Grow What You Love.
I had always gardened a little; tulips, annuals etc., things that were pretty much idiot-proof. When I found out 15 years ago that stargazer lilies weren't tropical flowers, I was hooked!

Clematis and lilies like to have their roots shaded, so daylilies and iris are good to grow around them. Once you have a few things established then you can tuck spring bulbs between them for some early color. By the time foliage is dying back, your other plants will be sprouting up to hide it. Annuals can always be tucked in wherever you like.

4 years ago, my garden was perfect ~ I didn't feel like there was anything more that I needed or wanted to do. And it took 12 years to get there.
Then we moved! Now I have a semi-blank slate but it's coming along.
What fun would it be if there was no more gardening to be done?

Rita, there is a bulb cubit, and it's Gemini_Sage's.

Here it is

http://cubits.org/bulbousplant...

Rita, glad you found us! Sure do have a bulb forum, right here:

http://cubits.org/bulbousplant...

Do come over and tell us everything you ordered from Brent and Becky's! So glad you took the plunge into spring bulbs! :-)

Judy, I see we have some enabling to do, LOL. We'll have you addicted to Lilies in no time, and check out Polly's Iris Cubit- the pics will have you drooling all over your keyboard in no time, LOL.

Hehehe, cross posted.

I'm seeing several Lily noses poke their way through the soil surface

Nothing here yet, we just got rid of our snow, and still have some snowbanks. But we do have crocus and hellebores blooming, so that's enough for me now.

That's so funny we cross posted, Neal. OK everyone go check out Neals cubit, please, if you have not already. It's a cheery one that we all need right now. Lot's of great pictures.

Very few of my lilies are coming up yet. Its awefully early for them here so I am not surprised.

Thanks for the link to the bulb group, I will go check it out after I finish posting.

Thanks Polly!!! ( I have ordered over 250 lily bulbs!!) LOL... in fact some of them are supposed to come tomorrow and i can't wait. It'll be like Christmas!! Most of my Asiatics are up at least 6".. course i am a lil south of y'all

moby i know that's true but i would like to just once see my whole yard finished. lasagna gardening gets me new beds every year but i think the city is about to come down on this country bumpkin. they don;t like it much.

Well, Becky, if you have 250 lilies coming you better be posting here, LOL. Pictures, pictures! I know what you mean about Christmas. Nothing like the arrival of a box of lilies.

Barb, what kind of city doesn't like flowers?

Barb, are you thinking the city doesn't like the "cooking" vacant lasagna bed? A friend in the Cincinnati area lives in a really nice, upscale neighborhood, and did a long lasagna border between her and her neighbor. She said she did get some frowns, but I think they're all amazed at the gorgeous border she has now.

Polly.. rest assured I will be one proud Momma when they bloom..LOL

Lilies are up ...glad to see the moles/voles didn't get them all......

Most of my lilies are up, some are probably 12" or more. I have a bunch that aren't showing at all though. It looks to be my later blooming lilies, like the orientals. Please tell me they come up later than the rest. I can't remember and I'm getting worried I may have lost them. Some I've grown for 10 years or better and there's a ton of bulbs after all those years of multiplying.

Joy

They come up later than the rest! Feel better?

Oh Thank you Moby. I do feel better now.

no neal. it's an "unsightly mess". i am going to fight city hall. i will have my harper valley pta moment after all.

Barb, is that how you're thinking of dealing with the mess, by installing a lasagna garden there? That would be a great transformation!

no it's the carboard hanging out on the ends of the beds that is bugging them. i think. went to talk to the city guy and he flat out lied about something he told me last year. and after that i just couldn't talk to him anymore. i asked for a meeting with the council.

I'm so glad I don't live in town. They'd have a fit with all the potted plants I have around here.