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Old 26-11-2003, 06:42 PM
Sacha
 
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Default Is it too late to plant bulbs?

jane26/11/03 2:24

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:59:23 +0000, Sacha
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~Tony Bull24/11/03 5:23
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ojunk (GoldDustRhiannon) wrote in message
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~ Both my garden centre and B&Q have replaced their bulb sections with Xmas
~ junk.
~ I guess this means I've left it too late to put in some bulbs for spring
~ flowers? Grrrr.
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~ Lorraine
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~ It's probably too late for daffodils but most others should be o.k.
~ But as one writer said you may not get many flowers in the first season.
~ Tony Bull
www.caterpillarfountain.co.uk
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~We're just getting round to putting in tulip bulbs now. BTW, has anyone
~else heard/read/known that burying them about 8" deep makes them display
~better year after year?

You mean like Sarah Raven said on GW the other week?

I hadn't heard it until then.

No. I didn't hear it there. I think I read it in a book by someone making a
garden in France or Italy, perhaps?
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