poliphilo

My sister says our mother's idea for planting bulbs was to take a handful, throw them underarm and then plant them where they fell. That way you get a natural looking drift.

I'm being more systematic because I want a mass of flowers not a scatter, but I like her method- and if I had a larger garden to play with I might have adopted it.

I forget how many bulbs we ordered this last time but I think it was around 150. I'm getting through them gradually.

When I get to the depth I want them buried at I hit a layer of rubble. There's bits of brick and tile and glass as well of the pebbles that were probably once the topping for a rough roadway. This was a brown field site and I'm uncovering its 19th and early 20th century past. Nothing particularly interesting has come up yet, but you never know....