Wednesday 1 October 2014

GREEN FINGERS: 106 Spring Bulbs

Daffodil bulbs

A tiny cocoon, it's skin peeling, it's roots dancing in the light autumnal breeze. Over a hundred little promises of spring flowers, of rich daffodil yellows, pinks of tulips to blues of aliums all set to bring colour and life to the depths of shade in my ever green garden. Planting them in their little six inch or so beds, tapping their soil bedding gently above their heads, wishing them a safe winter sleep until they begin to poke their little heads through the cold, crisp spring soil.

If you yearn for spring bulbs, now is the time to be getting your fingers dirty.

Hens and chick bulb

Daffodil, tulips they call for memories of an English spring garden, of bright, golden and happy blooms heralding the arrival of warmer days. Astbiles for privacy in pinks and purples, for bleeding hearts - flowers as pretty as their name might suggest. Of finding that balance between color and tempting pollentators into the garden, for the wildlife needs my garden a little more then me.

Autumn planting spring bulbs

While the ground might turn cold, covered in weeks, months on end of deep, crisp white snow and frost, hidden, sleeping underneath little bulbs all ready and waiting for a grand push, for a new start in my garden, the first push and step into adding some much needed colour. And as 106 bulbs find their way into my garden, a new life from my first ever flower cutting is starting to form a new life on my window still.

It's all fun as a newbie gardener.


16 comments:

  1. I can't wait to have a garden! Planting the bulbs is the best bit and then waiting to see what comes through in spring!

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    1. Yeah i'm hoping the squirrels don't run off with all the bulbs before spring!

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  2. 106 bulbs? You did very well there, pictures please next spring! :-) xx

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    1. Oh i'm sure there shall be lots of photographs for sure!

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  3. Your opening to this is just beautiful writing.
    And I too got my hands dirty last weekend planting my first ever spring bulbs - I'm terrified they wont poke their heads through come March but I'm hopeful. If sweet talking were enough they'd be out like a shot!
    M x

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    1. Garden related stuff brings out a different style of writing for me, it's weird. I have a fear of digging them up accidentally, that and them all just rotting and never coming up!

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  4. I cannot wait to have my own green space so I can plant some bulbs. Looking forward to seeing what comes of yours next spring :-)

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  5. I love this! I can't wait to see how full and luscious your garden looks this spring. I am always so exited when I see the first hints of my bulbs poking up through the dirt in the spring. A sign that winter is finally over!

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    1. I'm so looking forward to finally getting some colour in that's for sure. It's going to be something to look forward to once the snow sets in that's for sure.

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  6. Just 106? Is that all?


    hehe. They are going to look pretty awesome in the spring! You'll probably forget about some of them and then they'll just pop up in the spring!

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    1. 106 bulbs does not go far that's for sure! I probably could have done with another couple of hundred lol ah well at least some of them will multiple themselves over the years!

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  7. I love this! Your garden is going to look so pretty come spring. When we buy a house I plan to have an English garden too - it would be wrong not to! Can't wait to see the pics of the flowers in bloom!

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    1. Yeah, the big old Maple tree doesn't make the English garden an easy one to obtain what with all the shade but it's going to be there in part as much as I can squeeze into the couple of sunny borders that's for sure!

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  8. Lovely post - I can't wait to see pictures of your garden in bloom.

    Lizzie's Daily Blog

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  9. Planting bulbs in the fall is one of the most rewarding garden practices when you see them poke through the ground in the spring. Well done!

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