Dang you Home Depot!!

[Jared77]

Dog gone it! Went to Home Depot to get furnace filters and sure enough they are selling bulbs. LOTS of bulbs.

So 50 count of mixed pastel tulips (to be planted at the station) a mixed bag of 15 hyacinths, plus 2 purple & white bearded iris, 4 cherub's smile iris and 4 Dangerous moods iris.

Everything got planted except for the tulips that will get planted when I go to work.

Didn't need ANY of them but of course I couldn't pass them up. So instead of cleaning up I'm planting. Should be looking good around here next spring.

 

[thistlebloom]

Oh yeah! Your station will be on fire with color!

I love bulbs, until I begin to hate them later in early summer when their foliage gets so worn out looking and you just have to live with it until they go completely yellow. Then I go to Costco (or HD) and see them and I love them all over again.

Maybe I need counseling....

 

[Nyboy]

I also love bulbs, they are the first to wake up in spring. Pick up a bag of snow drops When I see their flower I know no matter how cold it is spring is near. Have given up trying to grow tultips, deer love them too much.

 

[canesisters]

OHHHHH! Gotta go to HD!!!!!

 

[Jared77]

Yeah their prices were very reasonable. They had 50 count of tulips for $16, the iris were $7 and those had 2 plants per pack. Most everything else was under $10 per pack. The counts varied based on what they were.

No snow drops, they had crocus which we like but I spent enough already. Snow drops & crocus are on my keep my eyes peeled for list for sure.

The station is very "blah". Lot of wood chips and more wood chips. It needs some pick me up so I'm slowly adding pieces as I find them for good prices. 50 count at that price was a good bang for my buck so I got them. I planted them around the elevated base of the flag pole. The soil is terrible so we'll see what happens.

What I wish would happen is to dig it all out and put in good soil to plant but I don't see that happening. I hope with the tulips and the roses being reclaimed they will see someone's trying.

Plan on dividing hostas at my house or picking up some in 3" pots from Walmart for cheap to go between the roses at the station too. Have to be easy keepers that are tough because anything around the station don't get any help other than mine. Sure everybody loves to look but nobody bothers to do anything. Oh well it's a labor of love.

No tulips here either at my house. I don't need to feed the rabbits or the deer. I found they don't like hyacinths so for some easy early color I like those.

 

[baymule]

I love bulb flowers. I have narcissus, amaryllis, red spider lily and jonquils. They are so easy, plant once and forget about them.

The jonquils came from the old house in Houston county that belonged to my ex husband's Granny and Pa. The old house was 1" board walls. There were no 2x4 studs. They built the floor, nailed 12"x8'x1" boards at the corners and nailed 2x4's around the top. Then they nailed the 12"x8'x1" boards to the top 2x4's and the floor. They covered the cracks between the boards with narrow strips called batten boards. There were 4 rooms, a fireplace, 8 windows and a porch. That old house was COLD! Granny told me about ice on the inside of the house walls in the winter. My ex and I used it for a deer camp house, I never saw ice on the inside, but it got durn cold. Granny had a hard life. She gave birth to 6 children in that old house. Pa and his brother made moonshine and drank a lot of it themselves. There was no electricity, no running water, no telephones, no automobiles. When they bought another farm and moved to Trinity county in late 1930's, they drove a wagon, drove their cattle and it took several days. At the new house, Granny got electricity and a butane gas stove and heater. Granny thought she had died and gone to heaven!

Granny had planted those jonquils at the old house. Winter was hard on a young mother with little children in that house. Can you imagine living in a house with outside/inside walls only one inch thick? She smiled as she recounted memories of watching the jonquils come up and burst into cheery yellow blooms. When she saw the jonquils, she knew winter was almost over and spring would be kinder to her.

I dug a clump of those jonquils and planted them under my crepe myrtle tree. When Granny died, I planted jonquils on her grave so they would bloom for her forever.

 

[thistlebloom]

I also love bulbs, they are the first to wake up in spring. Pick up a bag of snow drops When I see their flower I know no matter how cold it is spring is near. Have given up trying to grow tultips, deer love them too much.

No tulips here either at my house. I don't need to feed the rabbits or the deer. I found they don't like hyacinths so for some easy early color I like those.

Deer will also leave daffodils alone, so that's another option. Oh, and alliums too.