Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast in this Shmorgasborg episode

of incredible guests we have Peggy and Montgomery and Dan Benarsig, both horticulturists, and

we also have some rain oaks of homes that Brooklyn and her new project flock so everyone

we've talked a lot about bulbs and if someone's really excited and they're like chomping

at the bit to get them going but they never have done it before I suppose Dan maybe you

could give us a prime run how actually do you plant bulbs the basics?

That's a fair question so the public garden that I work in is called Chanticleer and we're

just west of Philadelphia you're in the the Mid-Atlantic region we're recording about 50 acres

and every year we're planning between 100,000 to 250,000 bulbs it's just that's how many

bulbs you need to have any sort of real effect in a large garden space so over the many years

that I've been working there we put plenty of bulbs in the ground some of them perennializing

that is once it will repeat from year to year and others that we had used for a very short

time maybe one or two seasons but the technique is the same it's getting the bulbs laid in

the season in the autumn for us in the Mid-Atlantic and up into the northern tier and getting

them in the ground while the ground is still what we would call warm that is before the

ground freezes so that it can set their roots that will carry them through the winter and

allow them to bloom in the spring so the bulb nurseries grow these bulbs so that they

will bloom that first year for you but the important thing is for those of us that

want perennializing or multi-year bulbs is that we consider where they're going into the ground

bulbs in general don't like wet areas they don't want to be winter saturated with moisture

so high ground is a better site than low ground for example since they bloom early in the spring

before most deciduous trees leave out they're blooming in the sun anyway so it doesn't really

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