final bulb forcing

Scarecrow came to help me organise the final bulb forcing for the season.

I couldn't resist these vintage 1960s plastic hyacinth vases on ebay so a trip to the garden centre for a few more hyacinth bulbs.

while at the garden centre I also bought some muscari and iris reticulata bulbs  and I still had a pack of crocus bulbs

those really small bulbs are needed for the Shorter and Son troughs, iris reticulata in both geese troughs and muscari in the rabbit trough

I guess those are shot glasses but they were on ebay with a hyacinth vase with the same design

muscari in the blue bird troughs, those 2 golden syrup tins on the right are rusted through so can't be used but I planted up the 3 on the left, previously the larger golden syrup tins were planted with hyacinth bulbs, these are smaller and need muscari or crocus

for some of the muscari bulbs, they are going in pots to stay in the garden, no more room in the cellar and some years the muscari doesn't bloom indoors any earlier than outdoors