We had unseasonably warm weather, right up until the weekend for planting spring bulbs, whereby I just had to start playing Christmas music.  I found an entertaining mix of holiday music from movies, traditional classics, and revamped classics in with some original scores.  Armed with this arsenal of audacious audio, I took to the fields!

Bulb planting wasn’t exactly a barrel of monkeys, mostly requiring tedious arranging of bulbs point up, flat down.  Though, the semi-feral barn kittens acted like monkeys using me for a barrel or trounced the bulb bed that was getting my attention, similar to when I planted over 1700 lily bulbs.  Tulips were planted much closer together than the lilies or the narcissus because these bulbs won’t stay in the ground after harvest.  Each group of the 3600 tulips had dissimilar coloring, creating an interesting block pattern down the row before 6 inches of soil was sifted on top of them.  These varieties are to me for growing and I look forward to assessing their suitability for our bouquets. Sumptuous varieties included Orca, Purple Heart, Mysterious Parrot, Silver Cloud, Rasta Parrot, Double Ice Cream, and Salmon Jimmy, among others.  

I planted over 200 narcissus in the note-able varieties of Replete, Yellow Cheerfulness, and Gay Tabor.  These bulbs will stay in the ground and produce more and more flowers each year!  Cross your toes. 🙂

I want to thank Ball Horticulture and Johnny’s Seeds for selling bulbs to me and for use of their beautiful photographs!