Still Waiting for the Tulips

I am STILL waiting for my large tulips to bloom. When they do, you know I will be posting photos. Of course, it will be 2-4 weeks later than all of the rest of Canada has its tulips. I shouldn't say my tulips aren't slow, they're just geographically challenged...having shed their coat of snow less than 2 months ago. In the meantime, I am enjoying the grape hyacinths and the indoor plants.

The dwarf banana is looking great. Maybe in another 2-3 yrs we'll have bananas! This Dendrobium blooms several times a year. This time it has 3 flower spikes and another new cane growing from the base. The orchids must love our house because aside from flowering, I have enough baby orchids being produced as keikeis that I have to give them away!

Grape Hyacinths

I understand that these little blue gems are a weed in Europe. I am quite fond of them in my garden. I planted these Muscari armeniacum two seasons ago and they have multiplied greatly by bulb multiplication and self-seeding. I think that Muscari spreading into the lawn is a possibility but I'm not going to care! They are growing in relatively poor, sandy soil but are in full sun and I've been putting some worm compost around them. I am also trying some other varieties of Muscari such as M. botryoides "album" and M. latifolium (bi-color with wide leaves) but they have yet to flower.