Blogs on spring bulbs

Tulips in Alnwick!!

Its Spring in The Alnwick Garden......the cherry trees have lost their blossom now, but underneath the trees is a carpet...

Colour Therapy at the Keukenhof Gardens April 2011

I am just back from a short city break to Amsterdam. I had a lovely time and spent half a day visiting the Keukenhof Tulip...

Tulips from Amsterdam ~ Tra ~ La

12th. April. I didn't quite realize just how many tulips I had in the garden. It's a pity they aren't all in the same place...

♪♪♪ THANK HEAVEN ... for little bulbs ... ♪♪♪

Inspired by the lyrics and music of Lerner and Loewe [ Gigi ] ♪♪♪ Thank heaven ... ... for little bulbs ... ... for little...

Bargain bulbs..

hi all, i thought i would show you what i bought from Wilkos today.. 10 tulips..red riding hood. 10 tulips. peach blossom. 10...

Purple Crocus for polio

Across Great Britain Rotarians in conjunction with The Eden Project and the International Flower Bulb Centre (IBC) in Holland,...

Story behind the Hyacinth

And no its got nothing to do with buckets...... Hyancinth was a warrior of Sparta... beautiful and strong and much loved...

New Bulbs !

Each autumn i invest in some more spring bulbs for the front garden. I'm interested in things that are a bit different, something...

Story of the Narcissus

Narcissus was an exceptionally attractive young man who scorned the advances of those who fell in love with him, including...

Finally got all my spring bulbs in today

Finally got all my spring bulbs in today. mixed daffodils hyancinths crocuses bluebells irises puschkika libanotica a few...

My Very First Daffodil!!!!!!

I planted the bulbs in May or early June. There were 8 of them, 4 irises and 4 daffodils. I planted them in a alternating...

Tulips, Daffs and Auriculas

Been really busy in the garden over the past two days. I had a part of the garden that was horrible to mow and to tell the...

WHEN IT'S SPRING AGAIN I'll BRING AGAIN...............

Never really taken to growing tulips, but, last autumn decided to give them a try, thought you might like to see how they...

Unexpected gift

I’m not one for being envious But I admit to feeling miffed Seeing all your lovely snowdrops In groups or in a drift! Imagine...

Britain biggest Daffodil Festival cannot happen!

I read today that for the first time in 40m years there are no blooms out for The Thriplow (Hertfordshire) Daffodil Festival,...

NOT the greatest start to the year but.......!

Hi all.......does anyone actually remember me.....? I admit, it's been a long time but those of you who read my last blog...

Spring Bulbs

Spring has arrived in Moray, although I am probably speaking a little too soon! The temperature has been shooting up to 8C...

Spring flowers

Or should I call them "End of winter" flowers? Or what about "Pre-Spring" flowers? We have written blogs on Snowdrops over...

spring bulb plot

Well as you know when i first joined i started a spring bulb plot If i remember correctly i had a very sore back and hands...

Getting to know you... spring bulbs and rhizomes

Dcr 726 asked whether we have any bulbs coming up in our new garden, so I went for a little wander with my camera. One of...

Battling the Badgers!

I smell of Jeyes fluid. It's a horrible smell-I just hope that the badgers think so, as well! The story continues. Having...

Off on a Tulip hunt!

Some of you know that I planted up my wooden boxes along the fence boundary with yellow tulips and white Narcissi in the...

New for old - MAGIC!

After Crazydi 'nicked' the idea I had for my next blog, (LOL-great minds think alike, Di!) I came up with a 'cunning plan'-and...

Spring Bulbs

I started a small garden area this summer from transplants from my elderly neighbor. It has some late spring plants, summer...

My attempt at a spring bulb planter!

As most of you already know I haven't had a lot to do with the flowery things until this year and now we have gone totally...

KEUKENHOF GARDENS PART 2.

First of all thank you all for your lovely comments and I am glad you all enjoyed the photos, more to come on this on blog. Sewingkilla...

MY EASTER TRIP TO KEUKENHOF GARDENS IN AMSTERDAM

Hello everyone. I want to take on a trip to the beautiful keukenhof gardens in Amsterdam. Myself and Christopher along with...

Kentucky Spring.

This past week I was in Lexington, Kentucky for a conference. Every time I go to Kentucky I fall in love yet again with...

Brodie Daffodils and Rhododendrons

We went back to the castle gardens today with the camera to look at the daffodils and the rhododendrons. In the early 1900s...

Confirmation of Spring

Spring is offically here, at least in our house. Last night the stove decided not to stay in, so be it. It has been a super...

The Daffodils of Kempley

Just over the Herefordshire border in Gloucestershire, there is a collection of pretty villages set in gentle, pasteral countryside....

TULIPS.........

We had some rain today, I went for a walk round the garden after, the Tulips are now coming out and looked lovely with the...

Primroses

Hi everyone Well I just had to go back to the GC in my lunch break and get some of those lovely native primroses I saw yesterday....

5 SRGC Early Bulb Day

We have just returned from Dunblane where we attended the Scottish Rock Garden Club's first meeting of the year. The event...

3 Let the Sun Shine

What a difference a couple of days of mild weather makes. On Sunday the garden was grey and damp immediatly after the snow...

Bulb Shoots

I bet a few of us managed to get into our gardens today. It was a bright sunny day here in East Yorkshire and I wandered...

Field mice love crocus!

I got lots of packets of bulbs from Focus for 10p and an extra 15% off (they should have been £2.99!) I hadn't got round...

Daffodils

Not too sure if I'm the first, but I saw the first daffodil this morning on the way to walking my pest to school, a minature...

Odds and Ends from Kazakhstan

In this blog, I will show some of the strange plants I saw on my holiday in Kazakhstan (the odds) and some of the endangered...

Other Bulbs from Kazakhstan

My previous blog on Kazakhstan concentrated on the tulips I saw so this time I will concentrate on representatives of the...

Tulips from Kazakhstan

You may remember back in April I went on a holiday to Kazakhstan, looking for plants in their natural habitat. I’ve finally...

Daffodils

Ok. my mother ( who I TRY to listen to ), has always told me not to cut back the greenery of the daffodil plant- but to let...

bulbs

many thanks to those who replied to my question about bulbs. i have had a beautiful show of hyacinths in pots in my garden...

"What is this daff?"

Someone on this site, and you know who you are , posts pictures of daffodils and asks us to identify them. So, for revenge,...

Does This Daff....

Have a FANCY Name as i think its a little different from all my others&id like 2 buy more of these type4nex years Spring...

Spring Bulbs

While shopping in Lidl I came across these lovely spring bulbs and at 99p a packet I thought they were a real bargain ,...