{"id":13715,"date":"2012-06-28T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2012-06-28T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:40:12","slug":"first-cuckoo-or-bulb-catalogue-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/first-cuckoo-or-bulb-catalogue-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"First Cuckoo or Bulb Catalogue of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is only 28th June but I have just received my first catalogue for Spring bulbs, is that cuckoo or what?<br \/>\nStill 164 pages of glossy photos in J Parker&#8217;s Wholesale catalogue is always welcome and a useful reference up to and past spring.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tejvan\/7039340567\/\" title=\"Daffodils by tejvanphotos, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7098\/7039340567_5d3584ecb0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Daffodils\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Why Order Bulbs Early<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The early bird gets the fat worm or the best of breed and that can be true of bulbs.<\/li>\n<li> Choice bulbs sell first.<\/li>\n<li>You will not be tempted to buy bargain basement bulbs that will probably be unsuitable.<\/li>\n<li>Some bulbs like Narcissus appreciate a long period in the ground to develop good roots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7136640243\/\" title=\"Tulip by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8142\/7136640243_de8b148c6e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Tulip\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Why Order Bulbs Later<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you can&#8217;t store spring flowering bulbs correctly they will deteriorate.<\/li>\n<li>You need to plant them to suit your garden conditions and when you have the space prepared.<\/li>\n<li>Vendors are after your money &#8211; if you order now you will get more catalogues and offers &#8211; just watch this space.<\/li>\n<li>You should be in the garden not reading glossy spring bulb catalogues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6798157120\/\" title=\"Crocus 2012 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7052\/6798157120_563b541ff7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Crocus 2012\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Why Wholesale Bulbs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>J Parker&#8217;s Wholesale catalogue is not only for retailers and professional gardeners.<\/li>\n<li>Bulbs are sold in quantity generally of 100, and 1,000 but you can buy 25 of one variety at the rate for a 100 or 250 at the 1,000 price. <\/li>\n<li>This volume buying works out good value and encourages you to select your varieties with care and get a good showing or massed grouping (I find buying in 10&#8217;s get a dot effect.)<\/li>\n<li>Beware the Parker&#8217;s prices are quoted before VAT and there is a \u00c2\u00a34 small order surcharge.<\/li>\n<li>More info and catalogue request at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchbulbs.co.uk\/\">www.Dutchbulbs.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gardeners Tips<\/strong><br \/>\nJ Parker also produce an Autumn wholesale catalogue and a variety of other vat inclusive catalogues during the year.<br \/>\nThe paper is too glossy to go on my compost heap so I recycle old catalogues with our paper collection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/learnscope\/3810558375\/\" title=\"Daffodils by robynejay, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3565\/3810558375_d192365bec.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Daffodils\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Daffodils by robynejay CC BY-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only 28th June but I have just received my first catalogue for Spring bulbs, is that cuckoo or what?<br \/>\nStill 164 pages of glossy photos in J Parker&#8217;s Wholesale catalogue is always welcome and a useful reference up to and past spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}