Why did you not wait for me? Do you not realize that I spend all winter thinking about you? Is it me? I tell people all the time you are my favourite.
Why were you so nice to the other girls in March, but never for me when I was around? Why do you blow hot and cold? Sooo hot one day, then the big freeze.
How am I going to count all my snowdrops a la VP?
And I want to start counting my daffodils like Beangenie, I sooo want.
Spring,
Please, please wait for me!
It has been an amazing March and the first two weeks of April. When I check my 2009 garden journal, I am finding the garden is 3 weeks ahead from last year. And in 2008, there was still snow on the ground the first weekend in April.
However, Kilbourne Grove still looks a bit blah. I need so many more bulbs, (and to win the lottery)! Carpets of them!
This is the only bulb that was here when we bought the house. Does anyone know what it is?
But next year I should have some more colour, these are all “free” forced dafs that I planted in the Kitchen Garden to recuperate. I will move them out after they are finished flowering.
These Tete A Tetes were from three years ago, they are now very happy flowering in the Flora Glade.
A few perennials are coming up, but nothing is as beautiful as this Polemonium “Touch of Class”, the leaves are purple and turquoise.
But it is the Serviceberry Allee that is the most showy this time of year. The helleborus have been joined by hyacinths.
And it looks like the Serviceberry will be in flower soon.
Helleborus “Green Corsican”(at least, I hope it is, the problem with free plants is sometimes the names get mixed up a bit), has been flowering since March 13th (at least that was the first date I saw it, it could have been flowering longer),
while Helleborus “Jacob” started two weeks ago.
What great plants these are, flowering for 6-8 weeks, maybe even longer. I do not think there are any other perennials that have that longevity. I am definitely going to get more for my garden. Hellebore mania, here I come!
Yummy! In Toronto, we have “Summerlicious” and “Winterlicious”. It takes place during the slower times in a restaurant, and was planned to bring in more business. You get a prix fixe for a set price and a lot of very expensive restaurants participate. For a lot of them, it is the only way, you will ever be able to afford to eat there.
For me, I need bulbilicious. I could never afford to plant the quantities of bulbs that I would want to in my garden, after all how much would it be for 10,000 scillas, thousands of daffs, millions of crocus, etc. I want what the English have. I want a snowdrop wood, where all you see are yard after yard of snowdrops, crocus lawns, bluebell woods. In England, they will plant them in the thousands and then give it 100 years or so, it will be spectacular. I want to see Wordsworth vision of daffodils in my back yard.
Whats a poor girl to do? In Canada, we do not have the huge number of mail order bulb companies that England and The United States have.
I was reading Gwendolyn’s Garden blog and she was talking about ordering bulbs,, so cheap from www.Colorblends.com, a wholesale mail order company.
So, I went on line and found Flower Bulbs R Us. This is the cheapest place that I could find in Canada. If anyone knows someone cheaper, please let me know. I did a cost comparison, Flower Bulbs R Us to ColorBlends. OK, there is no comparison. Scilla -FBRUS 1000/$199.60 Colorblends 1000/$120.00, Frit melagris FBRUS 1000/197.60 CB 1000/145.00, Chionodoxa FBRUS 1000/115.00 CB 1000/95.00 .
If I bought all 3000 bulbs (which is the quantities that I would need in order to achieve my dream, well, semi-achieve), FBRUS $512.20 and CB $360.00, that is a difference of $152.20.
Now don’t think that I am slagging FBRUS, they are quite a bit cheaper than all the other mail order bulb companies in Canada. So, once again I am ordering from them, just not in the quantities that I would be if I could order from Colorblends.
The dream will just take longer!
Green Theatre 