Now is the Time to Order Spring Bulbs

The last thing I want to do at the end of the summer is weed my garden. There is plenty of time for that when it gets cold. But, winter is coming and now is the time to think about those long days inside. Think bask to late February last year. We are all longing for spring and something to say that life would get better!. My early spring bulbs provided me with a taste of spring from you window. The sight of flowers in bloom just as the snow began to melt was wonderful.

So there is one thing that needs to be done now. It is time to your order spring bulbs. Not that you should plant them now because everyone is ordering now for fall planting and choices are becoming more and more limited by the day. Most avid gardeners have already ordered their bulbs in early August when the fall catalogs first arrived. My large order, inexpensive catalog has already sold out of several bulbs including winter aconite, one of my favorite early blooming bulbs.

My favorite early spring (February and March blooming bulbs in upstate New York) includes winter aconite, a lovely small large flowered yellow bulb. My other favorite reliable three bulbs for early spring are, wind anemones which last several weeks and do well in shade as well as sun, snow drops which come up as soon as snow melts in late February and continue to bloom through snow and frost. Some years I still have snowdrops spread out across my lawn and in my woods until late March. My third favorite is squill which has spread through my lawn and provide lovely pale blue and pink flowers which often go out and pick for the house.

The best things about these reliable small early bulbs is one- they are easy to plant, just dig a 2-3 inch hole and drop them in and stamp on the hole, two - rabbits, squirrels, or chipmunks don’t eat them, and 3 - they spread on their own over time. To plant them I go around my lawn and wherever there is a small opening in the grass I just stab the soil with my trowel drop in a bulb, and stamp on the dirt. They also look beautiful at the inside edge of beds or at the edge of the lawn near bushes. I can plant 50 bulbs in 20 minutes. So it won’t take you long to plant all you order. Remember they spread over time. So just put a few in any spot where you want to have early flowers and move on. Remember to plant a few where you can enjoy them from your window!!