That’s the new marketing slogan for the Netherland Bulb Company. They sell bulbs, lots of
them. From the sound of the campaign, everyone
still doesn’t realize how easy gardening with bulbs can be. There are a few things to keep in mind.
Wildwood Farm ordered several hundred bulbs from
several different companies. We also
bought steamed bone meal from LeBallister’s Seeds, a local company that
specializes in wildflower mixes and fertilizers. With LeBallister’s, we get 50lbs of powdered
bone meal for $36 and that’s it – none of the other fillers that come in the
‘bulb food’ packages. Most bulbs like a
spoonful of bone meal [bulbs absorb powder faster than granular] when they’re
planted to get going for spring.
The fun part of planting bulbs is the design. It takes a bit of imagination to picture what
they will look like in bloom! Planting
in lines simplify things.
They also look great naturalized – planted in
random groupings. Creating drifts of
bulbs, whether it’s with color, variety, height, or bloom progression is the
opposite of the formal look.
There are 425 Narcissus Dutch Master, Scarlet
O’Hara, and Tahiti going into a bank on our highway frontage. The goal is to intersperse the orange ones
[Tahiti, Scarlet O’Hara] into larger sections of pure yellow [Dutch Master].
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