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Dear friends, our garden is located in central part of Lithuania, one of the Baltic countries.The place is not suitable for bulbous plants: from western side - Baltic sea with mild wet weather, from east - continental climate. In result - early spring without snow but with strong frosts. I always with some envy look to my seacoast colleges with their warm winters or to eastern gardeners having constant snow covering and late spring. Here we have early vegetation with real damage by frosts... I am not nurseryman, only hobbyist who spend all free time and cash for plants, grown in small area around living house. The soil is not suitable for bulbous plants - heavy loam. Despite of yearly adding of peat and sand, the soil left too heavy for lot of plants. I was to forced to refuse of many Juno sp., lost almost all Iris reticulata group collection, have had large losses among other bulbs. Strange, but in our garden perfectly grow Corydalis - not only woodlanders, but and asiatics as well. Growing plants on raised beds we received good results with many botanical tulips, Fritillaria, Allium, Cochicum. Side by side of beds with Iris sibirica , Paeonia cvs, perfectly thrive collections of Crocus, Muscari, Tulipa, Ornithogalum... Almost all plants, including many woodlanders are grown outdoors, in full sun. Under plastic I grow only very sensitive to wet steppelanders and plants for seeds setting. A lot of our plants were grown from seeds in our garden.Twice result - we receive plants with every generation better acclimatized to our climate conditions plus every year we select many interesting plants among seedlings. Later some of them are propagated and named. Yours Eugenijus Dambrauskas
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