Crocuses are blooming

The crocuses I planted last December are now blooming. Interestingly, this occurred later than the daffodils in other areas of our yard (except for the new ones I planted in Dec). I could be wrong, but I thought that typically it's the other way around, so I'm not sure why that is. Well, I guess if you compare them to the daffodils I just planted with them, they are blooming before them, so I'm not sure why the ones I just planted are coming up later. Perhaps because I just planted them, or maybe because I planted them late. I sure don't know (as usual, please fill me in if you do!). Here are a few photos:

Crocuses in bloom

Some of the tulips are starting to come up, too:

Tulip sprouting

Yay!

Bulbs galore

My last work of 2011 (early December): planting roughly 100 bulbs in the backyard in pouring 45 degree rain. Not the most fun way to spend a Saturday, but I was convinced by my Mom to go out and do it (after all she gave me half of them!) and that the reward in spring would be worth it, despite the fact that this is way later than these should typically be planted. So, since doing unconventional things comes naturally to me, I did it! This is what I planted (excuse the mud, they were taken after I planted them - many months later, in fact):

Daffodils

Tulips

Blue bells

Crocus

Allium

My Mom gave me all of them except for the Tulips (which I purchased at CostCo) and some of them are in memory of Calum: "Remembrance" Crocus and "Baby Moon" Daffodils (I can't remember if any of the others have a connection). Due to lack of space, I couldn't plant them in the memorial garden (but they are special nonetheless), so instead I planted them nearby in the backyard along the lawn in front of some trees. Not being anywhere near skilled at garden design, I tried to plant them in a logical fashion that might look ok (but most likely probably won't), so we'll see how it works (assuming they even come up)!

(Note: this is a back-post, posted on 3/20/12)