Yesterday we worked in the front garden planting a nice border of tulips {three rows deep} in front of the boxwoods. I told the HH that you can never have enough tulips and he just sort of gave me a blank stare. 😉
I suppose if someone else is doing the planting you can never have enough… But if you’re the one that has to do it well…. Maybe that’s not so true?
We got the front flower bed done in about an hour, which I thought was pretty good.
Amazing Grace Tulips
The Amazing Grace and Charming Beauty tulips that came up this spring were absolutely GORGEOUS so we decided to order 50 more of each of those and took a chance on a few other varieties.
Charming Beauty Tulips
Mount Tacoma, Orange Princess and Blue Wow were the other bulbs we ordered. I really like the double peony flowing tulip varieties, they fill out so nicely! I like them more than the standard tulip varieties.
We’ll have to wait until next spring though to see if we picked winners. I’m hopeful though.
For some reason I thought I had ordered more tulips {500 to be exact!} but I didn’t and that’s okay, planting 300 tulip bulbs was enough for us to get in the ground in one day.
Planting tulip bulbs and tidying up the garden beds was our last garden chore of the year. It’s hard to believe that in another week and a half it will be November!
Where did the time go this year?
Are you done with garden chores for the year too? Are you ready for a rest too?
~Mavis
MD says
Will you plant something else there after the tulips bloom in the spring? I have a row of boxwoods I’d like to jazz up but just thought if I planted tulips in front, it would be a bit drab once they bloomed. Do you choose bulbs that bloom at different times for a longer show?
Also – you are so right about the Costco bulbs – I bought 3 bags of Daffodils and one bag had multiple dried up rotten bulbs. I will order from the place you recommended next year.
Mavis Butterfield says
We didn’t plant anything within the trellis squares so I think I’ll plant pole beans or squash in those spots next year {so the vines can crawl up the trellises} and plant some sort of flowers or herbs above the tulips after they’ve died back.