Beautiful Bulbs

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Spring flowers.  But I think I might like Fall bulbs even more. 

I went to the nursery this afternoon to get some daffodils and spent the better part of a half an hour playing in the bulb bins.  You'd think a bulb is a bulb, but when you look closely there are all kinds of differences in color and size and texture of the skin.  Daffodils are brown and peel-y, while the tulips are pinker and smooth.  The allium bulbs are big as onions (which they're related to) and white with no skin at all, and the muscari are tiny enough that they're almost more like seeds.  And the hyacinths--although their blooms are many different colors--all start out bright purple.

I really could have brought home a few of each, but I was good for the most part and limited my choices to the space I actually have available...for once.

I did splurge on a few pre-chilled bulbs to grow inside this winter.  If you will recall, the last forcing experiment did not go so well, but I'm hoping--since they're ready to go and won't have to live in the fridge for two months--these will work better.

For a list of what I chose, click onward....

For Outside....

• 25 'Yellow Trumpet' Daffodils
• 10 'Red Riding Hood' Tulips
• Two big handfuls of Muscari from Nice Co-Workers Garden

For Inside....

• 1 'Blue Jacket' Hyacinth
• 3 'Stella d'Oro' Daffodils
• A bagful of Paperwhites (that I'm not planting until the first of November, but thought might look nice sitting out in a pretty bowl between now and then--I wasn't kidding, I really think bulbs are beautiful).