Plant for Spring

Plant bulbs now for spring. Not all bulbs will reward you year after year. This beautiful yellow tulip refuses to bloom repeatedly or naturalize to return and multiply. It can be done but I have left this challenge to the professionals. Also deer and squirrels eat tulips. This tulip was planted in a protected place hidden under deciduous scrubs and surprised me in early Spring. I like the Narcissus family of bulbs and crocus for naturalizing. In addition the squirrels don't eat daffodils. To have a host of golden daffodils plant them in clumps, three, five , seven bulbs to a clump. I use top add bone meal to the 6-12 inch hole, depth depends on the size of your bulb, but this year some critter dug up two sixty bulbs in order to imbibe on the bone meal. I replanted all but two missing bulbs without the added fertilizer. Now I wait for spring. Also copied this from Ciscoe Morris garden guru in the Pacific Northwest.

By CISCOE MORRIS SPECIAL TO THE P-I
This time of year, it's incredibly easy to root branches cut from twig dogwood, willow, hydrangea, honeysuckle vine, butterfly bush, weigela, forsythia and perhaps others.
Simply cut off a branch and stick it in the ground where the soil is well-drained and the site is shady and protected from cold winds; then leave it alone until you see it begin to grow in spring or early summer.

I strongly recommend that you try this. Use new growth from this year and peal off leaves on lower part of a 8 to 12 inch twig. I probably wrote about this before. I did it too early this year so I think all my twigs died. But this weekend with the fall rains occurring every few days is the perfect time to try again. I also get too excited and anxious and start this process too soon and can't keep the twigs moist for rooting to occur. Especially a great opportunity, if you have a mild late winter like you did last year.
You are probably to busy preparing for baby, but maybe some year this will be helpful.