Planting bulbs for next spring is one of the surest ways to guarantee happy surprises in the future. Maybe even hide the record of what variety of tulip or daffodil you planted and enjoy the mystery of watching their colors emerge at a time where flowers seem like a miraculous alien life form.
Here is what we have this year. All of our bulbs are from a Dutch grower, DeVroomen. We have been working with them a long time and they also supply us with summer bulbs such as dahlias and gladioli, and bare roots for our house grown perennial program. You can find descriptions of all of these on the Devroomen website.
Daffodils (Narcissus):
Tête-à-Tête (shorter, early, miniature)
Kedron (double-flowered stems, deep apricot coronas)
Delibes (large yellow tepals, ruffled, orange-ring)
Chromacolor (white angular tepals, rosy salmon corona)
Snipe (miniature white, slim tepals, long corona)
Arctic Bells (small white tepals, large white/yellow/green coronas)
Replete (white tepals, double ruffled rosy and white coronas)
Ferris Wheel (large, yellow tepals, ruffled orange coronas)
Ice Follies (large white tepals, bright yellow ruffled coronas)
Grand Soleil d’Or (paperwhite style, for forcing, not perennial)
Mix: 60 days of Daffodils (two or more varieties of large blooms)
Mix: Fragrant Mix (early to late spring blooms of various sizes)
Allium:
Giganteum (large spherical purple blooms, tallest)
Globemaster (larger, denser flowers, shorter stem)
Purple Sensation (shorter, smaller blooms)
Sphaerocephalon (‘drumstick,’ tight red-purple blooms)
Nectaroscordum siculum (hanging umbels of burgundy and yellow striped, bell-shaped blossoms)
Tulips:
Daydream (golden petals with orange edges)
White Clouds/Hakuun (true white)
Blushing Impression (apricot petals with rosy centers)
Red Impression (silky bright red)
Lorenzo (double orange apricot with green-tipped outer petals)
Yellow Emperor (golden yellow)
Lightning Sun (rosy apricot pink)
Black Parrot dramatic (black-maroon fringed edges)
Brisbane (carnelian pink with light pink serrated edges)
Foxtrot (double pale-pink petals, darker and golden variation)