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What bulbs have I purchased this week?
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben. Well,
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yesterday I posted about the co-op
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selling bulbs at 20 and I asked the
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question, did I buy any or did I not? Of
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course I did. Of course I bought some.
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You can't pass up bulbs at 20 a pop, can
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you? So, what bulbs did we buy from the
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co-op? So, let's have a look. So, we
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bought some aliums. I love aliiums.
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Aliums are absolutely fantastic. They
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come up a bit later than the spring
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bulbs themselves, but these have massive
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purple heads on and the bees absolutely
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love them. And also once aliums die off,
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they leave a nice ball what you can dry
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out and use in vasees and yeah, they
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look really nice. Uh so if you're into
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your flower arranging, they're fantastic
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for that. But yeah, the bees absolutely
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love them. We also bought lots and lots
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of tulips. I absolutely love tulips.
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Tulips add so much nice color to the a
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lotment and brighten the place up. So,
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I'm going to be planting all these
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tulips in my entrance to my plot so that
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when you walk on, it will looks
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absolutely fabulous. And it certainly
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will do next year. Who? Forget about
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Amsterdam. My a lotment will be a lot
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better with the amount of tulips I'm
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going to be planting. So, we've got the
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Triumph mix, which is a nice colorful
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selection of bulbs. And yeah, there's
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five in a pack and we bought 10 packs of
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them. So yeah, we also bought some nice
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pink ones as well, Menon. So those will
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look nice as well. And then we also
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bought these ones. I do love the unusual
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looking tulips, the ones that look a bit
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different to the normal tulips. So these
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are double late mix. So these ones will
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come out a bit later than the other
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ones. So yeah, we're going to have a
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fantastic selection of tulips in the
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entrance. Hopefully I'm going to get
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these planted this weekend, but I can't
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do that today because obviously it's
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been raining all night yesterday and
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it's still raining today. So hopefully
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we'll get these in over the next couple
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of days on the plot. So yeah, I'm
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looking forward to next year. It's going
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to look absolutely beautiful down at the
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So that's going to be a busy job getting
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So yeah, we have got so many spring
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bulbs to plant. As you know, I've
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planted absolutely loads in my new areas
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of my a lotment. Uh the places that
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haven't had spring bulbs in before. So
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they look absolutely gorgeous.
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Obviously, we've got all the spring
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bulbs in from years before, but I always
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think they might not come up one year or
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they might be less because the squirrels
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ate them or took them apart, took them
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away. But yeah, I love to add extra
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spring bulbs every single year. And
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people ask me, why do I grow spring
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bulbs when you can't eat them? I love
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them to because they attract the bees.
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The bees like them when they first wake
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up from hibernation. They add pollen and
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nectar to the plot and they give them
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the energy they need for the year ahead.
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And obviously around springtime, the
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plot's looking pretty dull. There's not
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much growing. There's not much life in
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it. And it adds a lot of color to it and
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makes it look absolutely gorgeous as
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well. So yeah, I'm looking forward to
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next year. It's going to look absolutely
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amazing down here. Fingers crossed they
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all do grow and we do get a fantastic
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display. So, make sure you drop us a
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follow to stay up to date and see what
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they look like in the springtime. Until
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next time everyone, remember to keep
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smiling, keep shining and keep gardening
