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Should I plant these bulbs or what?

15 years ago

I've never dealt with any bulb except the standard daffodil. An online nursery had an end of season grabbag marked from almost 200 that I ended up getting for 25 with some fancy online coupon magic. I don't know what do with them.

I just got a shipment of way discount bulbs because apparently these bulbs should be planted more like April for summer blooms. So can I put them in the ground? I live in Georgia and we have a looong summer, so it'll be hot enough to qualify for summer way into September.

It looks like I got some glads, satisfaction lily trees,grand paridoiso lilys, peacock orchids, and shamrock iron cross bulbs, then some dahlia, orange glory flower, lady's mantle, and 4'oclocks root clumbs (rhizomes?).

All of these are supposed to be perinneal in nature. I also have a big bag of daffodil's but I guess I can put those in the fridge and plant them in the fall/winter.

So what should I do with all this bulby mess?

Comments (2)

bullthistle
15 years ago
Well you have 3 days off if you work at a normal job so roll up your sleeves and start digging and don't forget to add some bonemeal. They may be a bit late then normal but why not.

Here is a link that might be useful: Propagating Perennials
rrborn
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks for the link and encouragement!
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