Finally! Yesterday I planted my last bulb.  I may have bought too many fall bulbs and plants this year.  ‘Why did I buy so many?’ I asked myself as I took on the arduous task of getting them all in the ground.   The answer came back that I am impatient.

We have just spent our second year in this house and I want mature flower beds.  I no longer have the patience to wait for several years to fill the beds around the house with flowers.  Now, I’m more seasoned. I know what I want and I don’t want to wait too long to get it.

I had to first let all the beds go through a growing season so that I could see what was in them and what needed to be done.  I don’t want to accidentally harm or destroy existing plants after all.  This year, year two, I planted both perennials and annuals for the summer and then poured over fall planting catalogs, hungry for the flowers they promised and aggressively picked out bulbs and plants.

I must admit that I underestimated the effort it would take to get all this in the ground.  As I work full time, I could only devote weekends to planting and with out of town trips and wet weather, the weekend days were also very limited.  Every available clear weekend day, I spent planting.  So many bulbs were planted that my favorite bulb planting tool broke during one of these days.

All in all, I planted 360 bulbs and plants.  Whew!  I look forward to enjoying the full bounty of these plantings next year.  😀  I know that from this effort, good things will come.

• 200 Daffoldils (love these)
• 60 Hyacinths (smell oh so good!)
• 24 Irises (love these)
• 20 Day Lilies (love these)
• 20 Mountain Lilies (tiny – new for me)
• 16 Lily Trees (giant – these are amazing)
• 9 Peony Bushes (love these)
• 9 Oriental Lilies (gorgeous color)
• 2 Crown Imperials (regal – new for me)

Happy Blooming!  Sheri