The Weirdness Chronicles 2007 - Chapter 2
Boldly growing where no bulb has grown before . . . Sorry about the poor quality of the photo. It's cold and windy today, so I am sanding and taping walls in preparation for a badly needed paint job. I noticed this little anomaly as I made a quick trip to the composter with my morning coffee grounds.Like the snowdrop in my last weirdness post, this crocus is growing in a bed that I have never planted bulbs in. Ironically enough, after years of indecision, I have finally made up my mind which tulips and daffodils I want to plant here. Crocus and snowdrops will also be planted as a matter of course. Bulbs are to be ordered for fall planting.
If this keeps up, I made not have to buy any bulbs for this bed!
posted by OldRoses @ 2:12 PM
8 Comments:
Another lovely surprise from your garden. How lucky you are. I like surprises like that, don't you?
I have a compost heap too, but keep a special bucket with lid in the utillity room so that I don't have to go through rain and wind and cold many times a day with something for the compost heap. Just a thought!
I have a container in my kitchen too. I use it to collect my kitchen waste in between visits to the my composter. I like to visit my composter daily because it's also my chance to see what's going on in my gardens.
Looks like the squirrels have been helping you plant, OldRoses! At least it's something cool like a crocus... they plant trees in all my containers.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
It is amazing how things migrate. They're here then they're not. And now they're there. When I dug up a witch hazel and planted it in another part of the garden, unbeknownst to me along came a huge bunch of crocus. A nice surprise this spring.
I love those kinds of surprises in the garden...those busy squirrels! I can't blame the critters for this but I spaded up a corner of the garden one year and lo and behold poppies bloomed there the next spring. It was from an old planting I had done years before and the poppies had died out, I thought, but turning over the soil rejuvenated them. Talk about a surprise!
Wow, I'm impressed, you are already thinking about fall ordering. It's smart to keep a couple of seasons ahead if you can manage it.
I bet it was a squirrel that moved your crocus on you! LOL
Visiting for Green thumb Sundays - just wondering if you're still playing. If you are, don't forget to visit other participants as that's what the meme is all about.
Yup, squirrels. They planted a crocus that flowers yearly by my composter and a canna lily one year though I was dissappointed that it didn't flower.
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