Saturday, October 12, 2013

Garden sources

Maybelline

I came across this great site for bulbs. Colorblends mixes and matches tulip combinations, as well as offering single colors. The prices seem really reasonable, but since I've never ordered bulbs in bulk, I don't know. The picture shows one of my favorite combos. Please share your favorite online catalogs with us.

18 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Beautiful. I actually did plant some bulbs this year. I only have room for about 20. I wanted something like that... but the Home Depot mix will have to suffice.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

The problem with Maybelline is it won't breed true.

MamaM said...

Ohhhh! LIfe is good. There I was, wondering if the Red Letter in this red letter day was scarlett, crimson, or alizarin, and a picture pops up with all three present, along with rose madder and a delightful orange!

I wait until November and buy whatever's left over and marked down to 75% percent off at the garden store. Then I hope for a warm enough day to plant them with my handy dandy foot powered bulb planter. The latest I've gotten them in the ground has been Dec 31 and I've yet to be disappointed by what survives and turns up.

And every spring, when those leftovers bloom, I receive a delightful surprise!

MamaM said...

scarlett, crimson, or alizarin

-that's scarlet, if spelling madders.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I've always liked MamaM.

For you, Madder Rose performing "Beautiful John."

And remember, you're no flower.

deborah said...

Scarlett's for use in the nursery.

Ah..."The color alizarin crimson is a "cool" hue of the color red that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel. It is named after the organic dye alizarin, found in the madder plant, and the related synthetic lake pigment Alizarin Crimson (PR83 in the Color Index)."

deborah said...

I take it back about never buying in bulk...MamaM jogged a memory. Around 15 years ago I bought a batch of Carlton daffodils. Didn't get them in till around February. Pretty many had rotted. But the ones that came up were beautiful with azaleas (that's really late for daffodils).

deborah said...

Bat, I always go to Lowes. Would you say they're about the same in price?

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Territorial Seed Company

Not sure how far away they ship but everything I've ever gotten from them has been great. I don't plant many flower bulbs. We are already overrun with daffodils and iris and day lily. I have to beg people to take some every few years when I lift and separate (lol)

MamaM said...

DBQ, knowing your skill with the "fire stick", I hesitate to go with the fashion and affectionately proceed with a catchy "Bun Queen" diminutive (which could further be reduced to an ironic "Bunque!!"), but your comment made me laugh. I can do that commercial by heart, including the intonations.

Several years ago I purchased a white daylilythat is among my favorites and I look forward to its flowering every year. Unfortunately, it is not a robust grower nor a buxom bloomer, so I have to nurture it along with only two divisions thus far.

Had a nice surprise with my Easter Lily however. Buried the spent bulb in the garden following this year's holiday celebration and had two more blooms rise from the dead to show up this August.

JAL said...

Oh wow MamaM -- where did you get the white lily?

We have one pale pale yellow one.

I want one.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

It's entirely possible we're not on the same wavelength, baby, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Trooper York said...

Jackson and Perkins for Roses. When my buddy got married and bought a brownstone twenty years ago I bought a dozen Rose bushes and planted them in his backyard. They are still growing and make magnificent roses every year.

Trooper York said...

Now is the time to plant the blubs though. I once planted 250 tulip bulbs in my moms front garden. But gradually squirrels, rats and kids pulling them out on their way to school killed all of them.

MamaM said...

where did you get the white lily?

I bought it as a plant some years ago from Sunshine Gardens in SW Michigan, but all that comes up now under that name is a nudist camp.

There's some beauties at this link:
Tranquil Lake Nursery

deborah said...

Thanks for the links, all.

Yesterday I was organizing and found some nursery links. The first link has a good variety of hydrangeas...including some small ones for small spaces:

Joy Creek Nursery

Fraser's Thimble Farms

deborah said...

MamaM, I am especially fond of daylilies, and your link has a eight acres dedicated to them and siberian irises. Great day!

JAL said...

MamaM --

Massachusetts is the name of the very pale lemon yellow we have.

I have probably a ten or 12 different ones -- maybe 50 plants. Love them.