The Bulb Room...(Rhizomes, Tubers, and Corms also Welcome)
 

What do you grow? Amaryllis, Daffodils, Tulips, Hyacinth, Crocus, Callas, Bluebells, Bearded Iris, Dutch Iris, Freesia, Snowdrops, Caladium, etc.? Daylilies? Show us your photos!

Since I am in zone 9, I don't plant the above like Tomatovillians in other parts of the country and the rest of the world. I have to refrigerate tulips, crocus, hyacinths, and daffodils for 6-8 weeks before planting outside around Thanksgiving. My amaryllis I grow in the ground and they stay there.

A photo of crocus and daffodil bulbs in the refrig.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

Freesia and Dutch Iris
 

I planted these last week for cut flowers. The Dutch Iris is in the round pots and the freesia in the rectangular pots. Now I wait until March/April for the blooms. Also saw these amaryllis bulbs at Walmart for $6.95 and the bulbs were huge. Bought three. I usually plant amaryllis in the ground and established plants bloom around Easter. I put these in pots for flowers in about 6 weeks. The pots I can move indoors if we get a frost (unlikely) because amaryllis flowers will not tolerate a freeze.

It was rainy and gloomy today, so not any sun.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

I'm not much of a flower guy, unless those flowers turn in to tomatoes or peppers....But, I've got this one wad of amaryllis bulbs that blooms a beautiful crimson red. There are 4 in the picture, all bigger than a baseball. Seems like I oughta take them up and divide...not sure of that process, tho. Any help?

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Dividing Amaryllis
 

When do they bloom for you? Mine bloom around Easter. I would divide mine either this month or in November. Does the foliage on yours ever wither and turn brown in the fall? That probably means they're dormant and you could move them then.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

Dormant is best, splitting them is easy!

Not much going on right now
 

Looks like we all will have to wait until spring. Hopefully people grow daffodils and tulips.:) I planted some freesia bulbs a couple of weeks ago for cut flowers in spring. They are starting to come up. Also the three amaryllis bulbs I got from Wal-Mart a couple of weeks ago are growing very fast. Normally I grow amaryllis in the ground and they bloom around Easter. But every year around this time the big box stores have them ready to bloom around the Holidays.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

Daffodils cresting today
 

I bought the bulbs and refrigerated them for 6 weeks, just like I was supposed to. Planted them around Thanksgivings, just like I was supposed to. Now they are cresting! Perhaps I'll have some early blooms.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast, zone 9

I planted a gazillion bulbs in a small bed randomly placed because I ran out of fall lol. I planted about 100 daffodils, some tulips and some hyacinths. I have some ranunculus croms that will go out in spring, and have also been shopping for some dahlia tubers! :)

Asian lillies
 

From a mixed bag picked up in a local supermarket

Gladioli
 

From a mixed bag picked up at the same time, more to come.

You got those bulbs from a supermarket?? Wow!

Donna

These came from Aldi, they obviously source them from one of the bulb farms locally. The darkest of the Asiatic lillies is called black charm. Maybe able to work out who packed them through that name. Meanwhile the next gladioli has opened.

Aldi
 

There's one a couple of miles from me. You bring your own grocery bags and I think it cost a quarter to use a shopping cart...but you get your coin back when you return the cart. I'll have to be on the lookout at Aldi for bulbs and seeds....they may not have anything now, in the dead of winter. Thanks for the heads up regarding the bulbs. You also have to bag your own groceries.

Yes, they work the same way here with the Weekly specials that maybe in store for a week or two, depending upon popularity of item. This year they had the corms and later a range of general vegetable seeds, nothing special in terms of varieties, but good basics and at the right time for planting.

I have daffodils, various alliums, winter aconite, triplet lilies, a few squills, grape hyacinth, hyacinth, and maybe some others outside in the ground.
My question is: what do you grow on that soil during the many months your bulbs are dormant? My bulb area is Weed City most of the year.

Because of my climate, most fall bulbs are treated as annuals. I have to refrigerate them for six weeks, I plant them, they bloom, and I pull them out. So my bulbs aren't in the ground nearly as long as yours are. That being said, the bulbs I have right now are planted along the perimeter of the tomato plant bed. That is because the tomato plants go into the ground around the 1st of March and the daffodils, etc., may still be blooming, however, by the time the tomato plants are of any appreciable size, I will have pulled out the bulbs. Congratulations on being the mayor of Weed City.

[QUOTE=Nan_PA_6b;722182]I have daffodils, various alliums, winter aconite, triplet lilies, a few squills, grape hyacinth, hyacinth, and maybe some others outside in the ground.
My question is: what do you grow on that soil during the many months your bulbs are dormant? My bulb area is Weed City most of the year.[/QUOTE]

Nan, I don't know some of what you mentioned, but from what I know I would suggest some low density groundwater plants or annuals that you could plant as the lillies etc are growing up so as not to interfere with there flowering but providing cover over summer and into fall

[url]https://www.gardensalive.com/product/dont-plant-over-top-of-your-tulips[/url]

This link says not to plant over your tulip bulbs. At the end of the article, the author states that he applies the advice for tulips to all spring bulbs. Maybe others will chime in with advice.

i have iris from the house i grew up in. i transplant them where ever i live. they are a medium purple, and smell like grapes. they were at the house when my folks bought it in the 1950s. i like them.



keith

Plant nothing over the bulbs? Then I'd have an empty bed begging for weeds from June to next March.:panic: The article says plant nothing over them because then you'll be feeding and watering whatever you plant there. I'm not feeding and watering that area.:no: Also, if, as per the article, I had to lift the bulbs every year, there are hundreds of bulbs in that area. I'd be shoveling and sifting a very long time. :shock:

I guess a ground cover or late-awakening perennial would be the best.

I thought it sounded like a lot of work to have to lift all your bulbs every year and then replant them again every year. I'm sure sooner or later somebody in the know will come up with some good ideas for planting over bulbs.

Nan, considering how many naturalised daffodils, jonquils, ixias and other bulbs I see along road sides and in paddocks where there used to be houses, I think that you can definitely get away with a light groundcover or annuals, particularly as you are not feeding or watering that area

Amaryllis
 

I bought three bulbs at Wal-Mart in October. All were labeled "Minerva," a red and white bi-color. Two of the bulbs turned out to be "Picotee," and 1 of the bulbs turned out to be a red/white color which doesn't look exactly like Minerva. Oh well, all of the plants are pretty.

Nan, when your hundreds of bulbs bloom next year, you must post pictures here, please.

The next of the gladioli to flower, another nice red. still two to flower. They have suffered a bit with some of the heat we have been having, but overall not to badly.

Stunning!

[QUOTE=Nan_PA_6b;723293]Stunning![/QUOTE]

Thank you Nan, there are more that will definitely flower and one that is not showing signs of a spike at this time. Will post photos as they open

Got home from work and found another one out. The one that I thought might not flower has a spike clearly showing

Heat damage
 

As a result of the 110F day we had on Friday, the Gladioli are showing some damage.

Whoops helps to add photos

Wow, nice to see gladiolus being cultivated. Few people in the US seem to grow them, maybe because they’re so associated with funeral arrangements.