Bulbs - hidden pleasures
I love growing productive plants, but I have to admit a fondness for bulbs also. I’ve never really grown them before, though I’ve always wanted to. The often simple plants have some glorious flowers!
This year, I found a whole lot of bulbs on sale at K-Mart, of all places, and so I grabbed a stack to plant. Now, not really knowing how long it would be before they flowered, and how much longer I’m going to be living here, I didn’t plant them in the ground.
Instead, most of them went into the soil around current ornamentals in pots. So, at the moment I have random green shoots popping up amongst my other plants - and as I’ve forgotten some of what I put where, I’m really looking forward to the flowers - and the surprise!
I did dedicate a few pots just to bulbs, and here’s one of them just yesterday - hopefully soon to be blooming with iris’s:
As I also mentioned in a previous post, I succumbed to buying some tulip bulbs the other day. Now, tulips are my all-time favorite flower (perhaps it’s the Dutch in me coming out). I’ve never tried growing them before, as I live in a sub-tropical climate that doesn’t really suit them.
But, I’m going to give it a go, even though I know they probably won’t be able to regenerate after they flower.
Has anyone else successfully grown tulips or other temperate bulbs in the subtropics? If so, what’s your secret!
June 14 2008 02:31 pm | The Rental and garden
