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HORTICULTURE By Maria Gerbracht
List of Late Flowering Bulbs
May 2012 will be a unique opportunity to participate in a National Flower Show at the National Garden Clubs’ convention in Buffalo. We hope you plan on bringing some horticulture specimens to exhibit because they’ll count heavily on nearby members traveling by car. NOW is the time to order some of the newer cultivars (and keep track of their names) that will hopefully be in bloom for this special flower show.
We urge you to purchase these bulbs from BRENT AND BECKY’S BULBS, the American Bulb company who have very close ties to all the hybridizers in this Country. Brent wrote the bible on Daffodils, and she wrote the complement on Tulips. In their catalog they describe each cultivar in detail and mention whether they are good show cultivars, or can be forced into bloom in winter, or are excellent perennializers. And best of all, by purchasing the bulbs through BLOOMIN’BUCKS, a fundraiser that benefits the Federated Garden Clubs of NY State, you help to raise money needed to finance the convention.
Here follows a list of bulbs likely to bloom for that show. Most are offered in groups of 5, 10, 25, or 50. Order fifty and split with four of your garden club friends. Groups of 10 spring bulbs are very striking in the garden.
These are their late spring blooming Narcissi…
Trumpet: p. 7 – Bravoure p. 8 – Pay Day p. 9 – Primeur.
Large Cup: p. 10 – Altun Ha, Ambergate p. 11 – Fragrant Rose, High Society, Merels Favorite p. 12 – Perfect Lady, Redhill, Riot p. 13 – Sherwood Forest, Stainless.
Small Cup: p. 13 – Angel p. 14 – Dallas, Dreamlight, Goose Green, Green Pearl, Lancaster, Merlin p. 15 – Polar Ice, Royal Princess, Verona
Double: p. 15 – Cheerfulness, Daphne, Delnashaugh p. 17 – Snowball, Wave, White Medal, Yellow Cheerfulness
Triandus: p. 17 – Ice Wings p. 18 – Park Tropical, Petrel, Thalia
Cyclamineus: p. 18 – Emcys
Jonquilla: p. 20 – Beautiful Eyes, Blushing Lady, Intrigue
Tazetta: p. 22 – Aspasia
Poeticus: p.23 – Angel Eyes, Dactyl, Felindre
Split Corona: p. 23 – Exotic Mystery, Hungarian Rhapsody, Tripartite
Species: p. 24 – N. poeticus var. recurvus, p. 25 - N. X medioluteus
Miniatures: p. 25 – Baby Boomer, Baby Moon p. 26 – Clare, p. 27 – Havera p. 28 – New Baby, Segovia, Sun Disk, Sundial p. 29 – Xit
These are their late blooming Tulips…
Single Late: Try any; truly outstanding are the tetraploid French… p. 38 – Andre Rieu p. 39 – Dordogne p. 40 – Kingsblood, Maureen, Menton, Mrs. John T. Scheepers, Renown.
Also greatly praised by Dutch growers are those known as Lefeber Hybrids… p. 40 – El Nino, Hocus Pocus p. 41 – Perestroyka
Lily-flowered: identified as truly late bloomers include… p. 41 – China Pink p. 42 – Flashback, Green Star, White Triumphator
Fringed Tulips: a few are late…p. 43 – Daveport
Viridiflora: p. 43 – China Town, Spring Green, Virichic
Parrot: some are long lasting… p. 44 – Bright Parrot, Carmine Parrot, Cream Lizard
Late Double: p. 45 – Double Maureen
Species: p. 55 T. marjoletti.
Other late flowering bulbs: Allium: p. 56 – A. aflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’ p. 58 – A. karataviense; A. ‘Mars’; A. neapolitanum, p. 59 – A. schubertii, A. triquetrum
Cammassia: p. 63 – ‘Zwanenburg’, ‘Blue Danube’, C. quamash
Erythronium: p. 69 – E. ‘Rose Queen’; E. ‘Pagoda’; E. revolutum ‘White Beauty’; E. tuolumnense
Fritillaria: p. 70 – F. meleaggris
Hyacinthoides hispanica: p. 72 – ‘Excelsior’, ‘Queen of Pinks’, ‘White City’
Leucojum aestivum: p. 78 – ‘Gravetye Giant’.
So use the website www.bloominbucks.com, select the organization to benefit from this fundraiser: Federated Garden Clubs of NYS; or phone 877-661-2852 and be sure to mention that your order is to benefit our fundraiser. Then order 50 of a half a dozen varieties of bulbs for the late spring garden and share them with garden club friends.
Deer do not graze on Narcissi, Alliums, Hyacinthoides and Leucojum
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