Time to Order the Tulips!
This week I placed my order for bulbs, something I do every September. For me, placing this order is a kind of early fall ritual. It is also an opportunity to experience the sweet agony of choosing from among the offerings in the John Scheeper’s bulb catalog (so many bulbs that I want but cannot have).
Tulips are always the main course of the September bulb order. This year I am ordering seven varieties and 160 bulbs, all of them going into containers. All seven varieties were also in last year’s order, but I eliminated three varieties from last year that I found unsatisfactory.
These are the tulips I ordered:
Annie Schilder. A mid-season light orange Triumph Tulip.
Ballerina. A late-blooming orange Lily Tulip.
Couleur Cardinal. A scarlet-purple Single Early Tulip.
Early Harvest. A bright orange Kaufmanniana variety that blooms very early.
Keizerskroon. An red and yellow Single Early Tulip.
Kingsblood. A deep red Single Late Tulip.
King’s Orange. A deep red-orange mid-season Triumph Tulip.
Princess Irene. An orange-purple Single Early Tulip
As you can see, I’m into orange tulips in a big way. Basically I have one very early variety, three early, two mid-season, and two late-season.
In addition to tulips, I’ve ordered 75 Grape Hyacinths (Muscari). That’s not a lot, I know, but they will spread. Of these, 50 are the straight Muscari armeniacum, and 25 are Muscari ‘Valerie Finnis’. While M. armeniacum is deep blue, ‘Valerie Finnis’ is a very light blue, so I think they will combine nicely.
The Grape Hyacinths will all go into the new Lamppost Bed, to contrast with all the red, orange, and yellow tulips elsewhere in the front garden.
Finally, I ordered some Allium aflatunense ‘Purple Sensation’, to be planted on the south side of the crabapple tree.
Are you planning to plant any bulbs this autumn?
gardeninacity 
Hi Jason. Yes, just starting to put in my bulb orders… a few different species tulips and more daffodils this time. I’d like another early tulip like Early Harvest but a different colour… I hate the planting part though! -)
There is a nice red and yellow Kaufmanniana tulip called ‘Stresa’. It’s another very early bloomer.
I beat you to it this year. Placed my bulb order in July within days of the Scheeper’s catalog arrival. Have gone mad for allium this year, although your tulip selection is very tempting, but I must be good!
When you have planted your tulips in containers, what do you do with them? Leave them outside, or do you put them in storage somewhere and bring them out when the green tips show?
I bury the pots in the vegetable/cutting bed, then dig them up when the ground thaws.
Aha! Have never tried bulbs in containers, but to bury them in the cutting bed covered w/ chicken wire is a good plan. Thanks!
Oh Yes , I must get to ordering tulips! Thanks for reminder. Great selection you’ve chosen!
Thank you! Happy ordering!
I am planting bulbs! Alliums, species tulips, Muscari, Fritillaria, winter wolfsbane, and Grecian windflowers. I placed my order back in July. I recently bought more Alliums at the store too.
Great selection! I have lots of species tulips and some muscari but would really like some Grecian windflowers one of these days.
That’s lots of planting to do. I have purchased 24 Nectaroscordum siculum as I miss them from my old garden. I shall get some tulips for pots and Ballerina is always good.
I have heard the Nectaroscordum recommended but don’t think I have ever seen it.
I ordered my bulbs in mid August as I usually do, they should be arriving at any moment. Actually I think I should have ordered more as with changing the design of the garden a large number of planting spaces have opened up. Like your choices!
You can always add to your order! Don’t delay!
There is always that!
A wonderful order…I had to cancel mine since I will not be ready this fall…so on to next fall to plant tulips in my new cutting beds.
Oh well … at least it gives you more time to plan.
Just slipped in a bag of bulbs from the one-stop…and the anticipation builds. Catalog orders? You bet!
Enjoy!
After the Great Tulip Slaughter last spring, I’m only sticking a few Princess Irene into one pot with very sharp drainage. My free tulips from the Fling will be going into my newly redesigned front butterfly garden. I have a bucket of displaced daffs I have to deal with before I can even think about getting more bulbs. I love how colorful your choices are. 🙂
Wait, we got free tulips at the fling? I don’t remember that.
Hi Jason
I haven’t ordered tulips due to the problems I have had with badgers digging them up but I am wondering about getting some for pots. Do you plant anything with your tulips?
Hmmm, badgers we don’t have. Squirrels and voles, though. However, these tulips are going into containers that will be topped with chicken wire for the winter.
I like to underplant the tulips with Sweet Alyssum in early spring. In a good year they will last into fall.
It’s always so lovely to order the spring bulbs (your choices are exquisite)…the hardest part is having to choose what not to order 🙂
I completely agree, I’m trying very hard not to go back to the website and order more!
I should be planning my order, but I have delayed. Many of the wonderful bulbs I used to grow in the North, just can’t take the Southern heat. But Daffodils will do well, and I must get my order in! Thanks for another nudge!
Any time! Are you familiar with Erysimum – apparently it does well in mild winter areas.
I wish we could see them start blooming next week!
Me too!
Are you saying you plant your tulip bulbs in containers? Don’t they freeze? Are you so much warmer than me, down there?
I do plant them in containers, but I bury the containers for the winter. Here’s a link. https://gardeninacity.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/planting-container-tulips/
It’s been a while since I added any bulbs to the garden, maybe it’s time this year. Especially since I so enjoyed the alliums I saw at the Chicago Botanic Gardens
I’m increasingly fond of Alliums.
I love the bright orange Kaufmanniana…and I think I may even have one planted with a mixed group in our garden. I’ll put that on my list for next year. Happy bulb picking!
It really makes a splash when almost nothing else is blooming, almost as early as the snowdrops.
Princess Irene and Ballerina are two of my favourites. I can get quite excited about tulips (and I don’t even mind all the planting!). Watching for their leaves poking out of the soil in spring is a yearly pleasure. You’ve got some gorgeous bulbs coming. I’ve been dithering, so must get on with ordering!
I also get excited when the first leaves poke up out of the ground. Enjoy putting your bulb order together.
I love your selections Jason! The Janesville Rotary Garden did a orangey combo out from of their peachy colored entrance with most of the ones you selected. Although I got there on the tail-end, a gardener could tell it had been over the top glorious! I love the quality and selection with Scheepers. My only complaint is they begin to send them when conditions are right. Invariably, for me here in central WI, that is a bit past any sort of good weather for planting them. Conditions can go from sugar to sh** in a heartbeat here without reprieve until May.
Well, that’s frustrating about the timing. Have you requested that they ship to you earlier? One of these days I have to get up to the Rotary Garden to see the spring display.
Orange gives a nice pop of color for tulip plantings. No ordering done yet here, but perhaps it will happen.
There’s still time.
A nice selection Jason. I always associate you with Tulips and the colour orange now you happen to mention it.
I have no major bulb planting plans this autumn but did plant some new dwarf narcissus bulb. N. Baby Moon just yesterday.
‘Baby Moon’ is a great early Narcissus – good choice!
The only bulbs I enjoy are yours. 🙂 If I plant in the ground, the squirrels and chipmunks dig them up. And, I don’t have a place to keep a group of containers that they can’t get to. So, keep posting. 🙂
I certainly plan to!
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