Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

"GoldDustRhiannon" wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

No. Bung 'em in, they'll make it.

Steve

"GoldDustRhiannon" wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

No. Bung 'em in, they'll make it.

Steve

In article ,
GoldDustRhiannon writes
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

It's never too late to plant - you may not get many flowers this year,
but you will in subsequent years.
--
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In article ,
GoldDustRhiannon writes
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

It's never too late to plant - you may not get many flowers this year,
but you will in subsequent years.
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg
but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

"GoldDustRhiannon" wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

No it means they'll make more profit from selling xmas stuff than bulbs.

--
Tumbleweed

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newsgroups)

I hope not I planted around 300 bulbs last week...

"GoldDustRhiannon" wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

Plant merrily away! The other are right - your bulbs will certainly make
it. I'm still seeing bulbs for sale locally, at half price. Wonderful!
However, if they've been sitting in a warm shop/your warm home, take care to
acclimatise them.

I've got so many bulbs in the ground now, that I pot mine up (still 100s at
a time!) and keep thim in my chilly mini-greenhouse until spring. Then,
when the existing planted bulbs perform, I can see where to plant out the
new bulbs for optimum effect.

I'm sure you can see that this would work perfectly for bulbs that need a
period of acclimatisation.
Spider
GoldDustRhiannon wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

The message
from ojunk (GoldDustRhiannon) contains these words:

Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with
Xmas junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Not at all. BITGOD, bulb catalogues came out at the proper time,
around September, and iirc the orders arrived up until the end of
November; there was none of this untimely rush to get them in the
garden.

Some years ago I got some late bargain sacks of daffodils which were
planted in the week before Christmas, and produced a great show,
slightly late.

Janet.

ojunk (GoldDustRhiannon) wrote in message ...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

It's probably too late for daffodils but most others should be o.k.
But as one writer said you may not get many flowers in the first season.
Tony Bull www.caterpillarfountain.co.uk

"GoldDustRhiannon" wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

It's not to late, they will just come up and flower later than usual.
Planting is always better than leaving them out of the ground
Jenny

"...........It's probably too late for daffodils but most others should be
o.k. ......."

A few years ago I picked up a sack of double daffs late March, roots
everywhere.
Planted them and they were in flower in less than 6 weeks, very few flowers
the following year but they have flowered well every year since then.



--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Yeah, I planted some in February and they came up in May, which i thought
was quite groovy.

"David Hill" wrote in message
...
"...........It's probably too late for daffodils but most others should be
o.k. ......."

A few years ago I picked up a sack of double daffs late March, roots
everywhere.
Planted them and they were in flower in less than 6 weeks, very few
flowers
the following year but they have flowered well every year since then.



--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Tony Bull24/11/03 5:23
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ojunk (GoldDustRhiannon) wrote in message
...
Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
junk.
I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
flowers? Grrrr.

Lorraine

It's probably too late for daffodils but most others should be o.k.
But as one writer said you may not get many flowers in the first season.
Tony Bull www.caterpillarfountain.co.uk

We're just getting round to putting in tulip bulbs now. BTW, has anyone
else heard/read/known that burying them about 8" deep makes them display
better year after year?
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Sacha
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:59:23 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

~Tony Bull24/11/03 5:23
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~com
~
~ ojunk (GoldDustRhiannon) wrote in message
~ ...
~ Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
~ junk.
~ I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
~ flowers? Grrrr.
~
~ Lorraine
~
~ It's probably too late for daffodils but most others should be o.k.
~ But as one writer said you may not get many flowers in the first season.
~ Tony Bull www.caterpillarfountain.co.uk
~
~We're just getting round to putting in tulip bulbs now. BTW, has anyone
~else heard/read/known that burying them about 8" deep makes them display
~better year after year?

You mean like Sarah Raven said on GW the other week?

I hadn't heard it until then.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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