Happy Halloween!

Besides tricks and treats, Halloween is a reminder to GET YOUR BULBS!

I usually plant them quite late (after Thanksgiving and sometimes after finals!), but if I wait until then to buy them, I'm stuck.  The online companies are no longer shipping and the stock in most stores is pretty sad by then.  I have mostly given up on tulips--like tomatoes, they are just disappointing in our climate.  But as with tomatoes, I'm sometimes tempted again!  This time I resisted, though.  I bought daffodils, hyacinths and a crocus mix at Old House Gardens.  They're having a sale and since much of the country plants bulbs earlier than us, many items are sold out.  I did better than last year.  Last year, by the time I remembered I wanted bulbs, they weren't shipping anymore.