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Spring bulbs

Postby TheOstrich » 05 Jan 2018, 19:10

Our first snowdrop appeared just around the New Year and it's been in bloom for the past few days :D

But what has impressed this winter has been - the garlic!

We bought a giant garlic bulb from a garden centre in November, planted 10 individual cloves in two pots of 5 on the patio (and cooked the rest :lol: ). All 10 cloves have sprouted and are now 3" tall and growing fast. Hopefully we might well have 10 full-bodied home-grown garlic bulbs come next May ....
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby JanB » 05 Jan 2018, 19:39

We've tried growing garlic Ossie, as we are lot of it here - nada, zilch, nowt :roll: :roll: :cute:

Today I put my narcissus bulbs in the garden and they got rather well watered in 8-) :lol:
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby Kaz » 05 Jan 2018, 20:25

Lovely, Ossie! Nothing coming up here yet, although a "memory" popped up on my timeline on Facebook today, with photos from exactly 4 years ago, of my tubs with bulbs sprouting! I think the snow here last week might have slowed things down a bit :roll:
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby JoM » 05 Jan 2018, 21:03

I've seen a few shoots coming up in various gardens as I've walked around, probably Snowdrops - time will tell!
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby Diflower » 05 Jan 2018, 21:24

Snowdrops are up in our garden but not flowering yet.
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby JanB » 05 Jan 2018, 21:43

We've got a of of weeds coming to to play :roll: :roll: :cute:
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby JoM » 05 Jan 2018, 22:16

Diflower wrote:Snowdrops are up in our garden but not flowering yet.


I love Snowdrops :)
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby meriad » 08 Jan 2018, 11:06

JanB wrote:We've got a of of weeds coming to to play :roll: :roll: :cute:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby cruiser2 » 08 Jan 2018, 15:35

We have a lot of crocus beginning to appear. Have several troughs both at the front and back so we should have some flowers soon.
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Re: Spring bulbs

Postby AliasAggers » 08 Jan 2018, 15:50

The only flowers we can see from our window are quite a few Primulas, one of my favourite bedding plants,
some of which have been flowering, on and off, for months now.
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