A Growing Yellow

A brown barren hillside comes alive with incremental splashes of yellow, purple and blue on top of an expanding green.



The Bulbapaloozathon gathers force.



This is not the traditional bulb planting style of the Keukenhof. This is a wild thing and several million bulbs fewer. 10,000 daffodils alone isn't shabby though.



The miniature early blooming 'Rip van Winkle' is scattered hither and yon.



Crocus are planted with poisonous daffodil guardians, a new strategy that is easier than cages.



It looks to be working. This clump of crocus has expanded from last year. The arrival of the Spots last fall may deserve a little credit too. There is a certain burrowing chipmunk family that is no longer seen.



The first of the split-cup narcissi joins the growing display.



And a big trumpet daffodil.



Chionodoxa forbesii 'Blue Giant' makes a nice bouquet along my driveway. I need more.



The roadside vegetable garden needs one more load of wood chips and it will be fully mulched and ready for planting. I could still use several full tree trimmer's truck loads of wood chips for the rest of the garden.



The Eremurus finally made their appearance a few days ago. I was worried that the wet winter may have done them in. I recall them being one of the first to show last year. Instead they came up later and are fully double in size and thickness with a few more crowns than their first year.



Every year the daffodils expand with a little help from Bulbarella.



Buy, divide, spread and plant. If it keeps up a solid carpet is inevitable. It only took about fifteen to twenty years to reach 10,000 and it becomes increasingly exponential, so much so that maybe 200 landed in my garden last fall.