Bulbs, Once More

Well, the kitchen looks like it might finally be ready for a top coat. We started (early) with a second white coat, and had hopes of doing the Timeless (and white silk on the ceiling) late afternoon. However, the white hasn't dried properly (no idea why: it was meant to be over-coatable in four hours), so it must wait until tomorrow.

As there was no option of painting, we spent the afternoon planting yet more bulbs! Having established that a daffodil bulb weighs about 50 g (or that there's about 20 per kilogram), we've got about a thousand to plant; we've done about half today. Liz continued putting the puschkinia, muscari and scilla in the corner bank; I've put the daffodil groups in between these, and also put clumps along the verge outside the house, and on the verge opposite (there's no house opposite, only a field, so I'm not encroaching on someone's plot!). I've done the groups in various sizes, of 3–12 bulbs, and hopefully they'll really brighten the lane when they're up. I don't know why, but I find odd numbers of bulbs (or other plants) seem to work best in groups; hence, most of the groups are 3, 5, 9 or 11.

The other nice thing is that they'll give me an excuse not to trim the verge for a while...as it'd disturb the bulbs!