Dear Dell, My advice is to ignore almost all the comments given because these specific bulbs will act very differently on the East Coast than West. Here Puschkinia are well settled and barely move about. I dearly wish Tommies would explode across the whole garden, but do politely seed about. Scilla siberica is vigorus in ONLY the wettest area (not in my garden). Muscari barely keep up with critters -mostly mice who devour dormant bulbs. Survivors do clump up nicely though. We’ve planted hundreds of Anemone blanda. The Blue Shades mix is very nice, but so are the mixed shades. Splurge a little and get ‘White Splendor” which does well even in sunny dry areas here. If I were you I’d check around local gardeners to see how each of these do in your area. As for sources, in season they will pop up a lot for reasonable prices and some of the non-main line sources are even more reasonable. Go for it. We also like the Chinodoxa -any colors. Only ornithogalum can be on the weedy side here and some sellers substitute ‘bad guys’. Ipheion mostly barely holds on where we pamper it some. I am sure I’ve missed a few. Tulipa sylvestris is a bit big for the lawn and may be too weedy. What about small Alliums like ‘Jeanine’ or Geranium tuberosum and p[robably others. Good luck and report pros and cons. Best Jim W. > On Aug 7, 2015, at 3:30 PM, ds429@frontier.com wrote: > > I have been longing to make better use of my lawn. I want to experiment with a drift of bulbs in the lawn. I have decided after reading these posts and after growing hardy bulbs for 50 years, that I want to plant, in the grass, Crocus tommasinianus, Puschkinia libanotica, Scilla siberica ‘Spring Beauty’, and some reliable Muscari selection. > > Dell, in WV, USA, zone 5/6? where it hasn’t rained enough since June, when it rained too much. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Travis Owen > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 2:48 PM > To: Rick Buell via pbs > > > > > > My country yard (5 acre lot, semi-rural) is a rodent habitat. Moles, gophers, rabbits, tree squirrels, ground squirrels, mice... Bulbs are lucky to survive. Then there are the deer. > > Part of my yard has practically no topsoil, it is alluvial in nature (full of large rocks from an ancient river basin). Surrounding are douglas-fir and pine trees, adding a nice needle mulch every year. This is the area I've chosen to naturalize some Crocus and Scilla, small bulbs that I can plant easily in the difficult substrate. Moles and gophers stay away from these very rocky spots. Squirrels sometimes dig, but not too deep. To deal with deer, I've arranged some dead Arctostaphylos shrubs, the twisted wood is gorgeous, to obscure the view and restrict access by deer (inherently lazy browsers, I think). I have lost not a single Crocus so far in this spot, but I've lost many in areas with friable loam. > > Hopefully the bulbs will increase well. Photos next year. > > Travis Owen > Rogue River, OR > > amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ James Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd Kansas City, MO 64152-2711 USA Phone 816-746-1949 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/