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When I started this blog, I figured I’d use it as a glorified garden diary tool. I’m so lousy at writing down names and dates and locations. I thought about setting up a spreadsheet to record of what I did. But this looked like a way-more-fun way to keep track of what’s going on around here.

That never really happened because:

• Photography turned from a chore to a hobby for me.
• Garden blogging took off, and trying to keep up with what’s going on in the community beats the heck out of keeping records.

Cleaning up this morning, I ran across the packing list from this fall’s bulb order. Instead of filing it away, I indulged that little spark of compulsion that I usually keep tamped down and recorded the list below with links to catalog pictures. Now when stuff starts popping up next spring, I’ll have to be really lazy not to come back to this post and get some positive IDs and accurate botanical names when I post pictures.

You know, if a bulb or perennial company set up a feature where I could log in and they’d show me pictures of what I bought from them every year (and maybe even allow me to record a comment or two about where I planted it and how it did), I would quickly develop a loyalty to that company. (Or at least it would give them an edge.)

2008 fall bulb planting list:

• Camassia cusickii
• Camassia leichtlinii ‘Coerulea’
• Camassia leichtlinii ‘Semiplena’
• Camassia quamash
• Camassia quamash ‘Orion’
• Crocus vernus ‘Twilight’
• Large Flowering Crocus Mix
• Crocus tommasinianus’ ‘Lilac Beauty
• Fritillaria michailovskyi
• Leucojum aestivum
• Leucojum aestivum ‘Gravetye Giant’
• Oxalis adenophylla
• Scilla siberica ‘Spring Beauty’
• Tulipa’ ‘Ballerina
• Tulipa biflora
• Tulip ‘Carnaval de Nice’
• Tulipa orphanidea ‘Flava’
• Tulip Easter Egg Murillo Mixture