A slave to the Goddess Flora shares his garden adventures.
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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.
Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.
I spied a carton a lot like that at a nearby nursery last week. So are we to assume you bought them all and brought them home?
ReplyDeleteMuch as I would have loved to do that, there are lots of them in my garden already so they got left for someone else to save.
DeleteI always feel so sad to see them in nurseries...already sprouted...
ReplyDeletePlant rescue at it again, the color is pretty.
ReplyDeleteThat's part of the magic of colchicum! You can take them home and enjoy the flowers emerging from the bulbs and once they're done, plant the bulb in the ground. It's kind of backward but fun. In the spring lots of foliage emerges and ripens off so that in the fall, once again, the flowers emerge nekkid!
DeleteJust beautiful, I always feel as if I have to "rescue" the bulbs when I see them already sprouted at nurseries, and just bring them home and give them a nice bit o' dirt :D But so far I've never seen a nicer box of bulbs before, a nice find :D
ReplyDeleteThey were very sweet! It's always a temptation to adopt every bulb still on the shelves. I wonder what happens to the overstock? I bet that nurseries plant them up in pots to sell at bloom time.
DeleteAt the nursery near me they normally get really heavily discounted because otherwise they just sit on the shelf for even longer because they buy from wholesalers then sell it on, instead of growing it all themselves. If I had a nursery I'd probably plant them in a display garden or do as you suggested and put them up and sell when they flower again, or you never know, they may sell before they flower again because someone is looking for them out of the normal selling time (that's normally what happens to me... and then I forget what I was looking for when it's the right time to buy it hahaha) :D
DeleteNice rescue! Nursery's charge more for plants in bloom, in this case I hope you got a good price. I happen to like their strap like leaves that don't brown out until the summer. Go figure
ReplyDeleteActually, I didn't rescue them. The shots of the bulbs in the box are from one nursery and the creative display is from another where they were getting ready to pot them up. I agree with you on the foliage, it's very fresh and green early in the year. The ripening off and looking yellow and sickly in early summer isn't my favorite thing but I tolerate it for the late summer/ fall surprise to come.
DeleteWe have a clump blooming in the yard, but they are just as sprawling. I wish they would stand up in their full beauty.
ReplyDeleteMy earlier blooming ones did stand up nicely but the heavy rains of September beat them down.
DeleteThey got a big leggy, didn't they? Well, the colors are lovely anyway.
ReplyDeleteThey do that. They're allowed since they look like crocus and are so sweet in the autumn.
DeleteA potful of autumn floral explosion. Investment planting it will be then, should look even better when they bloom again next spring :)
ReplyDeleteThis is the time to buy them! Cochilcum bloom in the autumn and put green growth out in the spring.
DeleteOoh...naked ladies. My mom was once stopped at a border crossing and asked if she had any contraband in the trunk. "just some naked ladies" was passed off as a joke and she was waved through. She was serious.
ReplyDeleteOh that border crossings were as easy as they used to be. Today, there would be some sort of international investigation to find the poor ladies!
DeleteAll of us gardening fanatics must be distressed to see the lovely bulbs blooming unplanted, and filled with the desire to plant them... works for me.
ReplyDeleteYup!
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