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Plant: Spring Snowdrops
Source: Van Bourgondien, Van Dyck's
Quantity: 40
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Mid-January - Mid-February
Notes: Planted 10 in the front garden in 2003. Bloomed for the first time in 2005. Planted 30 more on 10/3/05. |
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Plant: Snow Crocus "White Triumphator"
Source: Brent & Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 100
Planted: 10/15/04
Blooms: Late January - Late February
Notes: Planted in a wavy line with Ladykiller and Romance crocus behind spa room. |
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Plant: Snow Crocus "Firefly"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms:Early February - Early March
Notes: Planted in back garden in partial shade. They are plastic Easter Egg purple when closed, and paler purple when opened. |
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Plant: Crocus - yellow and purple mix
Source: Menard's
Quantity: 40
Planted: Fall 2002
Blooms: Early February - Early March
Notes: This is a mix of bright yellow, pale yellow, and lavender snow crocuses. The dark and light yellow blooms appear first, followed by the purple blooms two or three weeks later. |
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Plant: Snow Crocus "Advance"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 25
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Early March
Notes: Planted in front garden next to the step. |
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Plant: Crocus "Vanguard"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 30
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Early March
Notes: These are a pleasant light blue color with alternating lighter petals. |
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Plant: Snow Crocus "Romance"
Source: Brent & Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 100
Planted: 10/15/04
Blooms: Early March
Notes: Planted in a wavy line with Ladykiller and White Triumphator crocus behind spa room. The rabbits feast on these, so it was difficult to get a photo with many blooms open. |
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Plant: Crocus "Joan of Arc" / "Jeanne d'Arc"
Source: Meijer
Quantity: 40
Planted: Fall 2002
Blooms: Early March
Notes: Planted in the kitchen garden in partial shade.
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Plant: Crocus "Ladykiller"
Source: Brent & Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 100
Planted: 10/15/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted in a wavy line with Romance and White Triumphator crocus behind spa room, where the rabbits feast on them. I love the color on these. |
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Plant: Crocus "Miss Vain"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted at back of property with "Dorothy" and "Blue Bird." Part of our rabbit buffet. |
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Plant: Crocus "Dorothy"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted at back of property with "Miss Vain" and "Blue Bird." |
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Plant: Crocus "Blue Bird"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted at back of property with "Miss Vain" and "Dorothy." |
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Plant: Crocus "Flower Record"
Source: Breck's
Quantity: 25
Planted: 10/15/04
Blooms: Mid-March
Notes: Planted under weeping cherry tree in front. These are tall and came back much stronger their second season, but then tanked their third. Victim of chipmunks? Don't know. |
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Plant: Crocus "Ruby Giant"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Late March
Notes: These are true purple, but this photo washed out the colors. I highly recommend these flowers. Planted in back garden. The chipmunks discovered these bulbs in Summer 2007 and dug up as many as they could, so we'll see how many come back. Fortunately, there were a lot of bulbs to start with. |
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Plant: Crocus "Minimus"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 30
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Bulbs arrived 9/24/06. Planted in back garden. These are disappointing, because they're relatively expensive and look much better in the catalogs. They lack the strong blue markings that differentiate it from standard pale purple crocus. |
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Plant: Mixed Crocus
Source: Lowe's
Quantity: 70
Planted: 10/15/04
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in grass on north side of house. These appear to be a mix of white Jeanne d'Arc and purple Flower Record. |
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Plant: Scilla "Siberian Squill"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 20
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Late March
Notes: These are very bright blue, and add a great burst of color for such a little plant. Moved these from the back garden to the kitchen garden to fill in the space between the Stella d'Oro daylilies. Normally, I'm rabid about deadheading, but I let these go to seed among the daylilies so they'll spread faster. |
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Plant: Scilla siberica "Alba"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in back garden. These are very cute little plants and have produced dozens of seedlings. |
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Plant: Scilla "Rosea"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/28/07
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. These have tinier blooms than our other scilla. |
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Plant: Puschkinia scilloides "Alba"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. These range from white to light blue and are even cuter than scilla siberica. |
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Plant: Puschkinia scilloides var libanotica
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in back garden. Only a handful came back in 2007, but there are dozens of seedlings so I'm not too worried. |
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Plant: Glory of the Snow Mix
Source: Van Bourgondien, Van Dyck's
Quantity: 94
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted 40 pink and blue glory of the snow in the back garden. We dug these up on 4/17/05 and moved to a different location to make room for other plants. Planted 54 more pink, blue, and white plants on 10/9/05. I don't like mixes, but that's just how this group of bulbs ended up. The pink blooms first, then the blue, then the white. |
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Plant: Muscari "Blue Magic"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 50
Planted: Fall 2007
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted 50 in front garden where old grape hyacinths were before they were disturbed by digging up a large tree. I was expecting these to be more bi-color than they are -- they aren't darker at the bottom of the bloom, but they are pretty little flowers anyway. |
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Plant: White Muscari
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 55
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Early April
Notes: These grape hyacinths are planted under the Japanese maple tree.
They were transplanted from a different location in spring 2005 and have taken well to their new home.
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Plant: Hyacinth "Jan Bos"
Source: Lowe's, Van Dyck's
Quantity: 10
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted 6 from Lowe's in fall 2003. Described as scarlet, they appeared red in some photos
and dark pink in other photos. I'm relieved to report that they
are dark pink and look great in the garden. The blooms were smaller and thinner their second year after being transplanted to a different location.
Planted 4 more in fall 2005 and all of the bulbs are doing well now. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Pink Pearl"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted 12 in front garden. Very sturdy, pretty blooms. Came back well in 2006, but not quite as well in 2007, and even worse in 2008, possibly due to bad soil and carpet phlox that are smothering them. Added six more plants in bloom from Meijer in spring 2008.. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Delft Blue"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in front garden. Comes back well every year. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Peter Stuyvesant"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in front garden. Comes back consistently. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Carnegie"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 10
Planted: 10/28/07
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted 12 from Van Dyck's in back garden. They look great with the Toronto tulips behind them. Only a few came back in 2007, possibly due to a bad winter or maybe due to hungry chipmunks. Planted 10 more from Brent and Becky's Bulbs in fall 2007. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Gypsy Queen"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/4/05
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. I wasn't expecting to like this color, but I do. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "White Festival"
Source: Breck's
Quantity: 6
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Bulbs arrived 9/25/06. Planted in side garden. These look much like standard hyacinths, except floppier, more loosely packed and with several flowers per bulb. I'm not crazy about them. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Woodstock"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Bulbs arrived 9/27/06. Planted in far back garden. One bulb was not the correct variety, so I removed it. Nice burgundy/dark purple hyacinth. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "Red Magic"
Source: Breck's
Quantity: 6
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Bulbs arrived 9/25/06. Planted in back garden. These are shown and described in the catalogs as being red with a white eye, but as you can see in this photo, they are just standard pink hyacinths. |
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Plant: Hyacinth "City of Haarlem"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Mid-April
Notes: Bulbs arrived 9/27/06. Planted in far back garden. These are pale yellow hyacinths. One can never have too many hyacinths. The sturdy blooms and the heavenly scent are wonderful. |
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Plant: Double Hyacinth "Hollyhock"
Source: Van Dyck's, Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted 6 from Van Dyck's in side garden. These are very bright pink. Planted 6 more from Van Bourgondien on 10/29/05.
Doing very well. |
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Plant: Spring Snowflakes
Source: Van Bourgondien, Van Dyck's
Quantity: 17
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Only three of the first seven bulbs we planted produced blooms their first season, but all seven bloomed their second season. Planted 10 more on 10/3/05. Moved the bulbs to a different location in the back garden to make room for a patio extension in August 2006. |
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Plant: Daffodil "Little Gem"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/28/07
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in front under weeping cherry tree. This is the earliest blooming daffodil I have. |
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Plant: Daffodil "February"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in front garden in response to my daughter's concern that I don't have enough yellow in early spring, since my daffodil choices tends to be later blooming white flowers.
It was a good move, because the bright yellow really pops out against the pink and blue hyacinths around them. |
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Plant: Daffodil "Rijnveld's Early Sensation"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/28/07
Blooms: Late March
Notes: Planted in back garden. These are nice, standard yellow daffodils. |
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Plant: Daffodil Mix
Source: Park Seeds
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Free with purchase. Regular readers will know that I dislike mixed bulbs, so I tucked them in the far back garden where I can use them as cut flowers. The mix includes yellow blooms in slightly different sizes and some white/yellow blooms. The different varieties mean the blooms are still coming late in April. |
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Plant: Daffodil "Irene Copeland"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 18
Planted: 10/22/06
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Part of my ongoing effort to plant everything with the name "Irene."
Bulbs arrived 9/27/06. Planted in far back garden beneath the mimosa tree. These are gorgeous blooms with lots of white and yellow petals that fill out to become little half-pompoms. They bloom for weeks and last over a week as cut flowers. The blooms eventually fade to pure white. I really like these. |
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Plant: Narcissus "Thalia"
Source: Target, Park Seed
Quantity: 35
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted 15 from Target in front garden mixed with Star of Persia christophii alliums. These bloom pure white, instead of white and yellow fading to white. There are several flower heads on each stem. They look terrific mixed in with all of the purple and pink flowers around them, and they are gone long before the Star of Persia (Christophii) alliums around them bloom. They come back reliably every year.
Planted 20 more from Park Seed in a different location in fall 2007 because I love these so much. |
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Plant: Daffodil "Palmares"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 10
Planted: 10/29/05
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. These are very pretty. |
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Plant: Daffodil "Pink Wonder"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 15
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Now that I know that pink daffodils are not really
pink, I was not horrified when these opened with bright yellow blooms.
The yellow changes to light peach within a few days, then to a pure
pastel pink. These are really beautiful, with very unusual petals. Planted in front garden. |
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Plant: Double Daffodil "Erlicheer"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 15
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Each stem contains many tiny flowers, all contained
in a single capsule (I don't know the official term for the thing
that daffodil blooms are in just before blooming). Most of the flower heads
on a stem looked full four days after the first tiny flower bloomed.
They are gorgeous and have a wonderful fragrance similar to plumeria. The foliage remains as late as August or September. The foliage and buds came up in December 2004 and froze so badly that they didn't bloom in 2005. Only a few bloomed in 2006, and most of the buds froze in 2007, but they finally bloomed again in 2008. |
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Plant: Miniature Daffodil "Minnow"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 25
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-April
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. The blooms are very tiny; only 1/2 inch across. Only four bulbs produced flowers in 2005, but they did better in 2006 and even better in 2007. |
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Plant: Daffodil "Bell Song"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 30
Planted: 10/30/04
Blooms: Mid-April
Notes: Nice, reliable flowers with several pink-cupped blooms per bulb. |
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Plant: Gardenia Daffodil "Cheerfulness"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-April
Notes: Planted at corner of side garden and back garden. These are tall with fairly small blooms. |
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Plant: Fritillaria meleagris (Checkered Lily)
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 20
Planted: 10/3/05
Blooms: Early April
Notes: Planted in front garden. These filled in better their second year. |
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Plant: Spring Starflower "Wisley Blue"
Source: Breck's
Quantity: 25
Planted: 10/22/05
Blooms: Mid-April
Notes: Planted in back garden. Smaller and paler blue than Rolf Fiedler, but they are doing much better than Rolf did, even though they're only two feet away in the same garden. Foliage appeared in the fall. |
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Plant: Allium "Purple Sensation"
Source: Sundown Gardens, Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 10
Planted: Spring 2003, Spring 2004
Blooms: Late April
Notes: We bought four post-bloom plants in pots from Sundown
Gardens in spring 2003 before we knew about the availability of
fall bulbs. Bought another plant in spring 2004. Ony one bud appeared in 2004, and only one bud appeared in 2005.
We had 10 bulbs in the back yard for two years and moved the surviving five bulbs to the front to join the others. Bloomed well in 2006. |
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Plant: Allium "Globemaster"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 8
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Early May
Notes: Planted three in fall 2003, then planted five more in back garden in fall 2004. Moved the ones in front to the back on 6/19/05. Blooming
is a slow process, so it is close to a week between starting to
open and being in full bloom. These are very sturdy, striking flowers and I love these. The foliage is entirely gone by late June. |
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Plant: Allium Christophii "Stars of Persia"
Source: Ace Hardware, Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 16
Planted: Fall 2003
Blooms: Mid-May
Notes: Planted in front garden mixed with Thalia daffodils.
These are larger, prettier, shorter,
and longer lasting than Purple Sensation, and I love them. These take a full
week from when they first start opening until they are in full
bloom.
They did not come back as strong after their first season, probably because they're crowded by the Thalia planted among them, dwindling to just one bloom in spring 2007. Planted 10 more from Brent and Becky's Bulbs in the kitchen garden in fall 2007. |
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Plant: Allium "Hair"
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 10
Planted: 10/3/05
Blooms: Late May
Notes: Planted in front garden. These are very tall and just as bizarre as shown in the catalogs, but I like them more than I was expecting because they are so unusual. |
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Plant: Allium "Schubertii"
Source: Van Dyck's, Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 8
Planted: 10/3/05
Blooms: Late May
Notes: Planted in back garden. These are very short with gigantic blooms. I love these! A single bloom in a narrow vase makes an amazing display for the office. Planted 5 more from Brent and Becky's Bulbs in the same location in fall 2007. |
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Plant: Allium Ostrowskianum "Alpine Rosy Bells"
Source: Menard's, Spring Hill Nursery
Quantity: 50
Planted: 9/18/04
Blooms: Mid-May
Notes: Planted in side garden. Originally, the 10 from Menard's were planted in the kitchen garden, but we moved them to the other group while they were still blooming on 6/4/05. Added 20 more on 10/9/05. These are cute but a little nondescript. These did not bloom in 2007, perhaps due to lack of sunlight. |
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Plant: Feather Hyacinth
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 12
Planted: 10/9/04
Blooms: Mid-May
Notes: Planted in back garden. These are really unusual and pretty, but the stems do not stand upright. About half didn't bloom, probably due to being shaded by the daffodils behind them. Moved to a sunnier part of the garden after blooming in 2006, but that didn't help. Another year of disappointment and I might remove them. |
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Plant: Oxalis "Iron Cross"
Source: Menards
Quantity: 25
Planted: 4/15/07
Blooms: Late May
Notes: Planted in far back garden for the rabbits to eat, which they do. Manages to produce leaves a little faster than the rabbits can eat them. My theory is the more I plant back there, the less they'll eat in the closer gardens that I can see. Bloomed a little over a month after the bulbs were planted. |
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Plant: Liatris Spicata and Liatris Alba Mix
Source: Langeveld
Quantity: 60
Planted: 4/15/06
Blooms: Mid-July
Notes: Planted in far back garden. We planted 10 from Brent and Becky's Bulbs in 2004, but less than half came up and we ended up replacing them with other plants. The new bulbs are in a different location and are doing much better. The purple blooms appear before the white ones. |
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Plant: Colchicum Byzantinum
Source: Alisonville Nursery
Quantity: 3
Planted: 8/15/04
Blooms: Mid-September
Notes: Planted in front garden around colchicum "The Giant." |
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Plant: Colchicum "The Giant"
Source: Van Bourgondien, Van Dyck's, Park Seed
Quantity: 6
Planted: 8/10/03
Blooms: Mid-September
Notes: All of these blooms came from a single, large bulb. These flowers are so pretty, that even manly, non-gardeners comment on how beautiful they are. The foliage comes up in the spring. Planted one from Van Bourgondien in fall 2003. It is shown here surrounded by 3 colchicum byzantium which are much smaller. Bought another from Van Dyck's in fall 2006 and planted it in the back garden. Planted four more from Park Seed in the back garden in fall 2007. |
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Plant: Colchicum "Waterlily"
Source: Van Bourgondien, Van Dyck's, Park Seed
Quantity: 2
Planted: 9/10/04
Blooms: Early October
Notes: Planted two from Van Bourgondien in front garden among phlox. Only one came up in 2005, but it didn't come up in 2006, so I bought another one to plant from Van Dyck's in Fall 2006.
Planted one more from Park Seed in the same location in fall 2007. |
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Plant: Colchicum Alboplenum "White Waterlily"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 3
Planted: 9/10/04
Blooms: Mid-October
Notes: Planted 2 from Van Bourgondien in front garden among phlox. These bulbs are consistently three times as expensive as other colchicum bulbs for some reason, but they are worth it because they bloom and bloom. The two I have produce more blooms each year. Planted one more from Park Seed in the same location in fall 2007. |
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Plant: Hardy Chinese Orchid "Lavender"
Source: Park's Gardens
Quantity: 3
Planted: 6/6/07
Notes: I ordered the white version of this plant and received a substitution of lavender in June. The catalog copy states that this is hardy in zone 5 (with protection) but the plant label says that it is only hardy to zone 7. I'm quite displeased about the substitution, lateness of delivery, and hardiness. Two of the plants have sprouted and are doing well; the third did not come up. |
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Plant: Arum Italicum
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 10
Planted: 10/28/07
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. |
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Plant: Allium "Atropurpureum"
Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Quantity: 10
Planted: 10/28/07
Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. |
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