They're Everywhere

I'm starting to get just a little scared. They won't stop coming up! Every time I look there are more.

















I saw this big batch covering a section of hillside across the street. My collection of borrowed bulbs just keeps getting bigger. More Daffodils, more Crocus, more Mountain Hyacinth, the Hyacinthoides hispanica. The larger Alliums are beginning to add to this crescendo and the summer Asiatic Lilies are yet to come.













My own bulbs that came mostly from the kindness of internet strangers are just now putting on some heft. It seems freshly planted fall bulbs may be slower to appear than those that have been in the ground for a while. The Tulips from Elizabeth at GardenRant survived the winter and evaded the voles in their cage of netting. These are my first ever in my entire gardening life, own personal Tulips. Florida and Hawaii do not lend themselves to such things, except by forcing, and when the whole world is green outside, why bother.

I bet the crazy bulb lady started with just a few bulbs too.















I found more Crocus down the road and across the street by the mailbox. Maybe someone planted them, maybe not.
















There was actually a nice stretch of days before the Bloom Day storm and more rocks were stacked on the wall. It's getting there. I think this second wall is looking much nicer.













But down by my little cabin to be, instead of tens of thousands of bulbs popping up through the ground it is looking more like a case of the measles.













"Ohhhh noooooooooooooo ..."


















Through sleet and snow and wind and rain, these Scarlet Elf Cups just keep on hanging on.