on the lookout for flower bulbs, with ken druse
HAVE YOU DONE your bulb procuring nonetheless? It’s ordering time each for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you’ll solely purchase now in case you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species.
Ken Druse and I each have been making lists of bulbs we as rapidly as grew nonetheless not have and should replenish, or of ones now we have now now nonetheless need in order so as to add additional to spice up the seen have an effect on, and in addition to some new-to-us goodies. Plus, we talked about when and the best way one can divide these Narcissus that is perhaps blooming quite a bit a lot much less lustily than they used to after various years all through the flooring.
Ken is a longtime pal and the creator of 20 yard books who gardens in New Jersey, and he’s my co-host numerous occasions a 12 months in our Digital Yard Membership assortment of on-line packages. His in depth gardens are loaded with distinctive crops, together with a variety of bulbs (we each love martagon lilies, as an illustration, like these at Ken’s, above).
Research alongside as you’re taking heed to the Aug. 26, 2024 mannequin of my public-radio present and podcast utilizing the participant beneath. Likelihood is you may subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify (and browse my archive of podcasts correct proper right here).
bulb procuring and dividing, with ken druse
Ken Druse: Whats up, Margaret. Each time you say, “Oh, let’s speak about bulbs,” I find yourself doing slightly evaluation, and I purchase all the objects I see.
Margaret Roach: Are you charging me then? Is that what you’re attempting to inform me; you’re sending me a invoice?
Ken: No, no. That’s an excellent suggestion. You talked about making an inventory, and yearly I take into consideration making an inventory and I really don’t ever do it. Nonetheless this 12 months, I took footage considerably to recollect I want to purchase that, or I would love I had that, or I’d love additional of that. So I really had a photographic pointers.
Margaret: Oh, that’s a unbelievable thought really, on account of in sure areas, all through the doorway of beds or borders, I’d need just a few remaining of some little treasure that I had far more of years beforehand, nonetheless the mattress’s gotten significantly wider and utterly completely different factors in it have gotten greater, and the bulbs have perhaps diminished. If I had taken an image, I’d know precisely the place [laughter] and what now, yeah.
Ken: Correctly, you completely set me up.
Margaret: Oh, sorry.
Ken: There’s a patch of Narcissus pseudonarcissus [above] , which is a species that grows in Europe and it grows in England and in Wales. It’s the topic of, efficiently, it’s in William Robinson’s e-book about wild gardening, and it’s in Wordsworth’s poem, “I wandered lonely as a cloud, beside the lake beneath the timber, fluttering and dancing all through the breeze,” relating to the golden daffodils. It’s a small daffodil and it’s very early, it begins to bloom in March.
This 12 months, we had a cool spring, it went on for over a month. Nonetheless I’ve seen that this patch, which used to naturalize, develop as if it was pure and obtained bigger and larger, hasn’t gotten any bigger. It’s doing O.Okay., nonetheless I planted it below a sapling of a weeping Katsura, which is now an enormous tree. Though it blooms and might get ripe almost ahead of the leaves come out, it must be divided to be additional healthful and to unfold significantly additional. Nevertheless furthermore I want to maneuver various of it to a sunnier spot.
Margaret: Yeah, and even what you had been saying relating to the sapling turned an infinite tree, even root opponents can merely be this unseen one issue that’s outpacing the needs of the bulbs which could be among the many many many monumental roots now, on the subject of for dietary nutritional vitamins and moisture and no matter. Yeah.
Correctly, we’re going to debate dividing for positive. I actually really feel first, let’s do some digital procuring or lusting after factors. While you obtained to your property, for those who occur to guys began making the yard there: What number of years do you probably can have that home now?
Ken: About 30 years.
Margaret: Yeah. I’m even significantly longer than that the place I’m. Had been there bulbs for those who occur to obtained there? Had been there any that you just simply take word all through the current place?
Ken: It’s humorous, on account of I do know we’re going to debate some fall blooming factors quickly, nonetheless there have been hardly any bulbs. Then there was a shock [laughter] about this time of 12 months when the Lycoris … On this place, the individuals who lived correct proper right here final and ahead of them for years hadn’t carried out one factor. This place was an enormous amount, nonetheless Lycoris [below] , typically known as bare girls, or now they’re calling it thriller bulb or one issue, nonetheless they popped up: Shock! Pink flower lily-like flowers on extended stems. And we had them for just a few years after which they disappeared on account of ahead of we raised the wall significantly bit, as you already know we had floods, and numerous factors didn’t make it by means of, the crops.
Margaret: So the wall alongside the river or stream subsequent to you?
Ken: Right, a quick division of the river, this yard’s on an island in a small river, and we used to have numerous floods twice a 12 months a minimal of. And numerous crops don’t like that.
Margaret: Right. Correctly, considerably bulbs that they need to have often a dry relaxation interval all by means of their dormancy. They don’t should rot all by means of that point. It’s fascinating that you just simply say that the shock lilies or no matter we’re calling the Lycoris, Lycoris squamigera is the species: That was what I inherited furthermore. And there’s a clump all through the yard on the hillside, and there’s a clump all through the doorway yard. And yearly they nonetheless shock me on account of I completely neglect on account of they’re a form of factors that has no foliage other than at a sure second all through the lifecycle. what I point out? Quite a few the 12 months there’s no foliage, so it’s not akin to you see the clump after which the flower arises from the clump, and then you definitely positively undoubtedly frequently see the leaves after and likewise you already know what I point out? [Photo above by Namazu-tron on Wikimedia Commons.]
Ken: I do.
Margaret: So it’s a shock. And so they additionally’re simply so robust apparently, other than as quickly as they dwell subsequent to a river that floods [laughter] . So I didn’t plant them. They often moreover’ve obtained to be a minimal of 35-plus years outdated and who’s aware of. So it’s unbelievable, and pink shouldn’t be one issue I’d’ve chosen, nonetheless it makes me joyful. I merely giggle each time: Up they arrive and there they go, and I benefit from them. And it’s in August often, so pleasing. I used to be merely saying-
Ken: It’s like, sorry, you talked about that you just simply don’t see them, and as well as you don’t give it some thought, which makes me ponder the Colchicum, on account of I do see these all through the spring, on account of they’ve such monumental thick leaves they usually’re within the simplest way.
Margaret: Right. So that they do. And so Colchicum, though we determine them autumn crocus, they’re not a crocus. They do appear to be an infinite crocus, nonetheless they’re not. Crocus are all through the iris household, Colchicum are all through the lily household. So that they’re utterly utterly completely different although they appear the same, which tells you why we shouldn’t use frequent names, although we’re ready to’t pronounce the Latin ones as a rule [laughter] . And so they additionally’re each corms, not bulbs, so that they’re merely confused, other than they’ve this very utterly utterly completely different conduct. You get numerous monumental low-to-the-ground foliage in spring, nonetheless no flower then that fades away, that withers and likewise you slim it as soon as extra or no matter. [Above, ‘Waterlily’ Colchicum.]
After which unexpectedly, any day now at my place, I actually really feel any day now, subsequent week, month, no matter, I’m going to begin seeing these purple or white crocus-like flowers, nonetheless the flowers have additional petals or regardless of the components are, and there’s additional to them. It’s not like a person flower or two out of every corm. It’s additional like teams. And so they additionally’re unbelievable they often’re, as quickly as additional, a shock on account of there’s nothing there marking their place from late spring till bloom time.
Ken: Correctly, the massive trick I actually really feel, or the problem to ponder horticulturally, is what you plant them subsequent to or with since you need perhaps hostas or one issue that comes up late all through the spring since you could disguise that foliage. It’s not the nicest foliage.
Margaret: All through the, yeah. And it’s, nonetheless it’s positively numerous foliage.
Ken: Right.
Margaret: And that’s one that you just’d be able to solely plant it all through the early fall. Likelihood is you may solely plant it or get it, get them organized, spherical this time of 12 months. And I noticed numerous locations are already promoting out. So it’s one issue for those who occur to wish to get the Colchicum, the so-called autumn crocus, you actually should do it summer time season or appropriate now on the newest in an effort to revenue from their season. They’re not one issue that’s bought shortly.
Ken: Right. And I did [laughter] . That’s the problem.
Margaret: Yeah. Oh, so now you’re charging me for that. O.Okay. Put it on my invoice.
Ken: I’ve some double white ones coming, I actually really feel.
Margaret: Oh, good, good, good. Yeah. So we’ve all had successes and failures and so forth, and whilst quickly as additional, with out flooding and stuff, do you probably can have one problem that you just simply’d much like to shortly title as your finest bulb of success, one that you just simply do very correctly with? Is there one factor like that? Mine is Eranthis [above] , the winter aconite.
Ken: Oh, I’ll say.
Margaret: Which was my least worthwhile at first. And I assumed, “What have I carried out? Why isn’t it rising?” And this goes as soon as extra just a few years. And it was like I had two after which I had three. After which for now I’ve tons of and tons of and tons of and tons of and tons of on account of they like to, as rapidly as they’re joyful, they self-sow themselves a lot increased than for those who occur to plant the bulbs. The success value from these self-sowns is simply so a lot increased than for those who occur to place the bulbs all through the flooring. So now I’ve these mature swaths of them. So yeah, so I’d say Eranthis is my most worthwhile. I merely questioned in case you had one that you just simply assume, “Oh, we’ve carried out very correctly with these.”
Ken: Correctly, you’re going to have to assist me with the pronunciation.
Margaret: Oh, good luck with that [laughter] .
Ken: Nectaroscordum.
Margaret: Yeah, to obtain it. Nectaroscordum. Right, appropriate.
Ken: And it was as quickly as Allium bulgaricum.
Margaret: Right, precisely. And now it’s Nectaroscordum siculum [above] . Sure, sure.
Ken: Right. Correctly, they’re merely joyful all by themselves.
Margaret: They’re. That’s a lovely one.
Ken: Usually pop up all through the place you didn’t know, on account of it is a shady place. They don’t often have straight stems. They’re humorous like snakes. First they crawl alongside the underside, then they arrive up.
Margaret: Oh yeah. They like additional photograph voltaic to be erect and protect up these trusses of flowers. Yeah.
Ken: Nonetheless there’s one completely different species that’s rising correct proper right here, and it was as quickly as actually expensive. I don’t know if it nonetheless is, nonetheless is Nectaroscordum tripedale [below from Ken’s] .
Margaret: I ponder if it’s pronounced tripedale. I don’t know. I’m merely making that up.
Ken: Yeah, see, I instructed you I didn’t understand it.
Margaret: Yeah, no, it’s O.Okay. It doesn’t matter. It wasn’t a spoken language, botanical Latin, appropriate?
Ken: These individuals are ineffective, all these people. Have you ever ever ever ever seen that Nectaroscordum?
Margaret: Sure.
Ken: It’s participating. Oh my gosh.
Margaret: Right. Lovely. O.Okay., in order that’s one completely different one. So talking of successes, failures. I can’t develop crocus on account of animals. Merely neglect about it. And tulips equally, I’ve given up on, on account of it was merely frequently having to guard them and no matter. It was an excessive amount of of a ache all through the neck. Nonetheless yeah, crocus I don’t do efficiently with on account of they’re much like sweet for your complete animals.
Ken: And there’s numerous, there’s really fairly just a few fall-blooming crocus.
Margaret: Oh, and do you probably can have any of these? Are you rising any of these?
Ken: Correctly, I do now [laughter] .
Margaret: Uh-oh, he’s procuring people. Uh-oh.
Ken: I frequently wished to develop Crocus speciosus [above, at Ken’s] , which is bluish and blooms all through the autumn, and I by no means have, nonetheless I am going to most likely be this 12 months and I actually really feel I’m going to goal Sternbergia. Sternbergia lutea. I actually really feel that’s usually known as autumn daffodil. It’s an atypical title I actually really feel, nonetheless it has yellow flowers. Looks like a crocus. And that’s one completely different fall-blooming. So that you just’ve obtained me into this entire fall blooming problem.
Margaret: Oh, fascinating. O.Okay. Blame Margaret. Merely go forward, blame Margaret. Yeah, like I mentioned, I can’t develop crocus and I even tried the tommasinianus, the Tommies, the crocus. They’re alleged to be most probably primarily essentially the most animal-resistant they usually had been a catastrophe furthermore, for me. Nonetheless usually talking, these will do larger. I merely have numerous very decided animals. Even as soon as they don’t eat them precisely, they knock their heads off [laughter] and dig them up and factors like that. So I gave up.
Nonetheless talking of animals, there are factors, and I’ve an inventory of… There are animal-resistant bulbs, and a few are even nearly actually animal-proof, much like the Narcissus as an illustration, and the Colchicum that we’re merely speaking about. Actually, no one’s going to mess with these. And I actually really feel the Eranthis, the winter aconite that I discussed ahead of. Hyacinths, Galanthus, the decorative onions; you merely talked about various of these and their family.
Ken: The Allium. Correctly, I furthermore purchased, I did this not ensuing from you really, ensuing from our dialogue, nonetheless I similar to the allium they usually’ve been O.Okay. for the previous few years coming as soon as extra. Nonetheless often even these don’t on account of they’re crowded out or one issue. And so they even have foliage, significantly bit ahead of the flower and the foliage then turns yellow. Nonetheless I don’t even see it on account of I’ve planted them amongst utterly completely different factors. And perhaps that’s why they diminish in quantity on account of they’re significantly crowded. I like the best manner they pop up. I don’t get the massive tall ones. They’re simply too outer … Correctly, I used to be going to say they’re outer spacey, nonetheless these low monumental ones are outer spacey. And I like them for that. They’re Star Trek they usually dry so efficiently.
Margaret: I used to have additional of the, which one is it that has the actually fireworks wanting? I’m going to simply clear on the title.
Ken: As am I.
Margaret: And I furthermore love karataviense… Oh, schubertii. Allium schubertii, that looks like fireworks. I used to like to dry the flowerheads furthermore. They make good dried flowers. And so they additionally peter out lastly. And karataviense, which has fairly glaucous low blue leaves and pale pink globes lowish to the underside. I like each of these, nonetheless I don’t uncover that they final perpetually. So I is perhaps altering various of these. The little yellow Allium moly [above] , did you ever develop that?
Ken: Yeah, that didn’t come as soon as extra efficiently every, really.
Margaret: Yeah, I had it for various years, nonetheless then it lastly furthermore was misplaced. In order that’s one which I’m considering, it’s simply so cheerful to have one issue much like the little Narcissus, significantly miniature Narcissus and so forth, that entrance of the border or significantly burst of vibrant yellow when spring’s merely approaching, it’s merely such a cheerful coloration and goes with what’s occurring in springtime. In order that’s one completely different one which I’m considering of.
Ken: These are all some factors that we love, and perhaps must interchange or have additional of on account of they did efficiently. And likewise you and I are each loopy for one issue that must be planted all through the autumn, which could be martagon lilies.
Margaret: Right. Which animals will eat [laughter] . Nonetheless the martagon lilies are fairly, European and additional pure wanting. Pendant, drooping; the flowers dangle down. [Below, martagon lily ‘Claude Shride.’]
Ken: Yeah. Little Turk’s cap flowers and extended, tall stems.
Margaret: Yeah, actually fairly.
Ken: Very tall, like 3 toes a minimal of.
Margaret: One different factors that animals merely don’t eat, if individuals are , the glory of the snow, the Chionodoxa; the Spanish bluebells, Hyacinthoides; Muscari is meant to be fairly animal-resistant. Not utterly, nonetheless Siberian squill, the Scilla siberica; Camassia; Fritillaria; the Eremurus, the foxtail lilies—have you ever ever ever ever grown any of these? Some is probably 5 toes tall. These are unbelievable. I must strive these, the foxtail lilies.
Ken: I attempted these they usually didn’t work for me.
Margaret: I want to goal as quickly as additional. I haven’t tried them in various years and I merely wish to goal as quickly as additional. On account of they’re simply so dramatic, so pleasing. So we’ll see. I would merely purchase just a few, like three or 5 or one issue [laughter] . And the trout lilies, Erythronium, they’re animal-resistant and native as efficiently. There’s diversified native ones all through the nation.
Ken: You talked about camassias. I actually really feel there’s 4 or 5 North American species.
Margaret: Sure. And fairly just a few them are Western, west of the Cascade Mountains.
Ken: Yeah, Pacific Northwestern.
Margaret: So yeah, I actually really feel there’s one which’s from California, the Sierra Nevadas, and so forth. And there’s a quantity, various species a minimal of. Nonetheless there’s one, I actually really feel it’s scilloides, that’s South Carolina to components of Texas. And it goes up into western Pennsylvania and even into I actually really feel Wisconsin and Kansas all through the Midwest and I actually really feel into Ontario. In order that’s an fascinating one. It’s the one one which’s additional Japanese, I actually really feel among the many many many three or 4 or nonetheless many natives there are. In order quickly as additional, not native in all places and not at all significantly the place we’re, nonetheless nonetheless pleasing to check out.
Ken: And so they even have blue flowers.
Margaret: Sure, I actually really feel so. I actually really feel so.
Ken: I actually really feel all of them have from delicate blue to darkish blue that there’s a white one, ‘Sacajawea.’ It’s a various of leichtlinii, I actually really feel. Camassia leichtlinii.
Margaret: Leichtlinii [left] , yeah, that’s a western one. Yeah. Now we have to avoid wasting time for dividing narcissus on the top. Nonetheless talking of natives, I desire to look on the web website of the Pacific Bulb Society, pacificbulbsociety.org. That has good bulb references for any use, nonetheless it furthermore talks about natives. In order that’s one pleasing reference for folks.
And on the subject of native bulbs, the Erythronium, the trout lilies that we talked about, there’s a pair species of these, a white-flowered one. They’re actually Japanese a part of the nation, Japanese half or two-thirds of the nation. There’s a Western species and one even particular to California. So price wanting into, an Erythronium is, in case you’re into native crops and as well as you could add some minor bulbs to your yard.
And there’s as quickly as additional, the Northwest actually appears to have some good ones, some participating little bulbs. They’re all associated to not less than one one different, I actually really feel, like Calochortus and Brodiaea and the Dichelostemma—there’s one which’s usually known as the firecracker flower that’s crimson and yellow, with yellow lips [below; photo by Dinkum from WIkimedia Commons] . That’s solely a unbelievable… a cut-flower farmer pal of mine grows that as significantly tiny, unbelievable cut-flower addition to smaller bouquets. And it’s merely fabulous. In order quickly as additional, not native the place I’m, nonetheless native to the USA. So some prospects. Nonetheless I have to ask you relating to the dividing.
Ken: I used to be merely going to say a extremely extremely efficient problem is to know the place the bulbs are. Sadly, with that huge patch that I’m going to be engaged on any minute now of the Narcissus pseudonarcissus species, wild species, I do know the place they’re on account of they’re below the tree and there’s an infinite patch. Nonetheless in case you don’t mark these daffodils to dig up and divide now ahead of they actually begin making numerous roots, then you definitely positively undoubtedly’re in downside.
Margaret: Correctly, appropriate now, we couldn’t inform the place that they’d been on account of they haven’t any foliage.
Ken: Right.
Margaret: So now we have now now to go on reminiscence or footage, akin to you had been good to take footage.
Ken: Or tags.
Margaret: Right. And tags and so forth.
Ken: Tags, in case you’re fortunate ample that no one steals them.
Margaret: Nonetheless would this be the time for those who occur to would divide them? After they’re-
Ken: Yeah.
Margaret: So at bulb-planting time, so to talk, you’d furthermore harvest various of your specific individual and swap them spherical?
Ken: Plenty of of them might want some roots, merely quick roots, nonetheless that’s O.Okay. So I’d dig them up, and in case you’ve ever even bought a daffodil that they often determine them noses, that has bigger than one-
Margaret: Double-nosed?
Ken: Yeah. Which is probably hooked as a lot as one another, you possibly can pry these aside, and for those who occur to dig up yours, and within the occasion that they’ve just a few bulbs caught collectively, you possibly can pry these aside. Nonetheless I often, I’ll dig them up and it appears to be like like one daffodil and it seems it’s six. So I merely dig them up with a yard fork, pry them aside. Likelihood is you may allow them to dry whether or not it’s advisable, or simply replant them immediately. And often, frankly, they might relaxation a 12 months and not at all offer you an infinite present. Nonetheless after that, the second 12 months, they actually go gangbusters. And in case your daffodils are slowing down, digging them up and dividing them is one technique to get them going as quickly as additional. And likewise you’ll have… If in case you have acquired 10, you’ll have 100.
Margaret: Yeah. On account of varied those that I planted after I first obtained correct proper right here, they’re in far more shade than that they’d been on account of the woody crops adjoining have grown quite a bit, like what you had been speaking about earlier. And they also have to be rescued, or clearly they’re not doing anyone any injury, it’s merely that they’re not performing, actually. They ship up greenery all through the spring, and I let that utterly develop and ripen. And often spherical July 4th, I rake it off, clear up spherical them as quickly as they utterly have withered, the foliage has withered. Nonetheless I’m not getting the flowers like I did years beforehand, to the diploma that I did years beforehand. So yeah, I positively want to try this. I might do an experimental clump or two and see the best way through which it goes.
Ken: It’ll make them happier.
Margaret: Yeah. And the problem is, you’re going to pierce some bulbs since you’re not going to know the place precisely they’re in case you didn’t mark them as quickly as that they’d all their foliage. I point out in case you didn’t mark the perimeter precisely, have you ever ever learnt what I point out? And that’s O.Okay.
Ken: It could not kill them really.
Margaret: Right. And we merely should be O.Okay. about that, on account of it’s for the higher good, appropriate? [Laughter.]
Ken: Perhaps go gradual. And likewise you talked about cleansing up in July. We’re saying divide them now, nonetheless you possibly can divide them as quickly as they’re dormant, actually beginning in July, I’d say. Nonetheless that is the tip of the time you possibly can dig them up and divide them, as you talked about, the time to obtain dormant bulbs.
Margaret: Right. So all through the last word minute or so, inform me, is there the rest in your wishlist that I’m paying for now? [Laughter.] Is there the rest we didn’t stage out or that you just simply’re getting additional of in another case you haven’t had ahead of?
Ken: Correctly, the tripedale, I’m going to get that.
Margaret: You’re going to deal with calling it tripedale?
Ken: It’s such a pleasant title.
Margaret: Nonetheless I don’t know. You’re appropriate. Who’s aware of?
Ken: The reality is you’re appropriate. Why wouldn’t you determine it tripedale? That looks like a avenue in London or one issue. I can’t ponder it. That’s loopy. [Laughter.]
Margaret: So that you just’re going to get additional of that. You’re going to get that.
Ken: Oh, only one additional perhaps. Usually you need … That’s one problem to say, purchase ample.
Margaret: Right. Don’t skimp.
Ken: Nonetheless all through the case of the tripedale, it’s so spectacular. You may have solely a pair. And it’s tall and it’s an infinite present and it’s fairly and it’s even fairly lower. Nonetheless you talked about Brodiaea, which I actually really feel modified its title to Triteleia.
Margaret: Yeah. Triteleia, yeah.
Ken: Oh, see I’m mispronouncing factors.
Margaret: No, I actually really feel it every means. It doesn’t matter. As quickly as additional, it doesn’t matter.
Ken: Correctly, the Brodiaea, I had that for years, and it has blue flowers, blooms significantly late all through the spring, and it’s merely straightforward and dependable till you place a paving stone on extreme of it, which is anybody who shall preserve anonymous, on account of we’re doing-
Margaret: Paved it.
Ken: … significantly enchancment, it obtained a paving stone. And it’d come as soon as extra subsequent 12 months, nonetheless I actually really feel I ought to get additional of these, on account of they did very correctly. That’s one problem, in case you obtained one issue that’s carried out actually well-
Margaret: Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Ken: … perhaps get some additional repeat.
Margaret: Yeah. All appropriate, efficiently no paving stones in your bulbs, everyone, nonetheless go order some bulbs, everyone. In order that’s our message correct now, our twin message [laughter] . Thanks Ken for making time. And I’ve a manner I’m having a procuring binge significantly later after we dangle up.
Ken: Harmful.
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HAVE YOU DONE your bulb procuring nonetheless? It’s ordering time each for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you’ll solely purchase now in case you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species. Ken Druse and I each have been making lists of bulbs we as rapidly as…