We Planted 80,000 BULBS in our LAWN. See Them Bloom Over 3 MONTHS - Ep. 173
Over the course of two autumns, we managed to plant 80,000 perennial bulbs in our lawn in what is known in the Netherlands as a "stinzenplanten." This allows us to have a more productive lawn for pollinators and other wildlife, pay homage to Sander's Dutch roots, and also provide a tapestry of beauty over the course of 3 months-often during a time when not much else is blooming.
Special thanks to @flowerbulbs8319 for partnering with us on this video and for helping make our bulb lawn become a reality.
If you'd like to see the "native low-mow lawn mix planting", you can see that here: • LOW-MOW NATIVE LAWN: S...
Some of the bulbs and flowers we planted include:
Allium moly 'Jeannine'
Amsonia 'Blue Ice'
Anemonoides quinquefolia
Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades'
Anemone blanda 'White Splendour'
Calylophus 'Prairie Lode'
Chionodoxa forbesii
Chionodoxa luciliae
Chrysogonum virginianum var. brevistolon (stolonifera) 'Eco Lacquered Spider'
Coreopsis pubescens 'Nana'
Corydalis 'Beth Evans'
Crocus chrysanthus 'Ard Schenk'
Crocus 'Pickwick
Crocus 'Remembrance'
Crocus tomassinianus 'Whitewell Purple'
Cyclamen hederifolium
Eranthis cilicica
Fritillaria meleagris
Galanthus woronwiii
Ipheion sp.
Ipheion uniflorum 'White Star'
Meehania cordata
Mertensia virginiana
Monarda punctata
Muscari armeniacum
Muscari botryoides 'Album'
Ruellia humilis
Trillium sp.
Tulipa bakeri 'Lilac Wonder'
Tulipa 'kolpakowskiana'
Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha 'Tubergen's Gem'
Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane'
Tulipa clusiana 'Peppermint Stick'
Tulipa cretica 'Hilde'
Tulipa humilis violacea
Tulipa polychroma
Tulipa saxatilis
Tulipa sylvestris
Tulipa tarda
Tulipa urumiensis
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Now I know why there are random bulbs planted all over the lawn. We bought our house from a Dutch family many, many years ago. 🌷💚🙃
Haha! There you go!
Lucky you
Bulbs are great, they just keep coming back, though they are usually quite short in growth/blooming time. Some exceptions are the onion family of bulbs
Lol 😁
We had crocus scattered through our back lawn from a previous gardener-owner. They were lovely and a delight every year! He also had planted thousands of daffodils and narcissus of many varieties along with camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas, dogwoods, two japanese maples (there was a third one in the adjacent neighbor’s yard, 😂) and a magnificent Korean Spice viburnum that flooded the garden with the most beautiful, heavy perfume and beautiful pink-to-white balls of color for two full weeks every spring for at least 60-75 years. It was an amazing garden to grow up in. Oh, and I forgot to mention the Christmas and Lenten Rose hellebores in all the borders…
This video made my heart happy 🥰🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼
so much better than the sanitized look of the "perfect green" lawn this is better in every way for nature and just to look at in general reminds me of the lowlands of Scotland when i was a kid very cool
Crocuses multiply quickly. It’s going to look even more beautiful in a few years.
I received 200 crocuses one year by mistake, and they did not want them back so we took a drillbit and drilled holes in the lawn and planted them. It was magic. As soon as the snow has melted we now the lawn then wait for the crocus to emerge
Did they die down early enough before you had to mow the lawn?
Please post a video like this every Spring!
We have in the Netherlands all kinds of bulbs for different seasons so you can have flowers from early spring til autumn . Just leave in the ground they will come up next year and the next.....
At first, I thought 80,000 bulbs was overkill, until I watched your time lapse. How stuning and beautiful to bring this method (I forget the name you called it)to your land. I love it!
They really get gobbled up in ~1/4 acre of lawn. I think if they were also blooming simultaneously, it would feel "fuller" but the fact that they have staggered blooms over the course of three months makes it feel sparser haha. And it's "stinzenplanten"... the term you're looking for :)
I'm Dutch and have been investigating bulbs for our lawn. The adviced number of bulbs I see here is somewhere around 40 bulbs per m2, which is 30-35 per square yard!
@@FlockFingerLakes Stinzenplanten are defined as plants that escaped gardens a long time ago and now are considered part of nature. So it's not necessarily the bulbs in your lawn, but we still use plants labeled stinzenplanten in our lawns. They often are the older less cultivated version of modern bulbs.
Oh yeah. You really need a lot, if you want them to 'pop' visually. Lucky are those, that 'inherit' them with their garden.
So beautiful! This would be my dream lawn/ garden. Thank you for helping the pollinators and bringing us along to share in all your glorious bulb show!😊💖🌸🌼🐝🙌🦋
You're most welcome. Really hope you enjoyed!
Wow, someone not focusing on misery, but beauty. 🙏 Thank you
@@FlockFingerLakes Where did you purchase the bulbs?
I was literally waiting a year for this episode! Worth the wait
*Summer, I LOVE THIS IDEA BETTER! This is a good idea for people whom still want to have a grass lawn..* 💙💚💛💜💙💜💛💚
Your work has improved the world!
A terrific dandelion display! Add them to a salad… Gorgeous bulb turnout. You are a tremendous representative for Flock. Equal parts enthusiasm and inspiration, loaded with information. Thank you! New subscriber!
The fun part is not only seeing the beauty of the flowers, but also watching them grow and evolve over time. I love the time-lapse footage. Thanks for sharing.
I wish I had been there for the full show but I came and went and was always shocked at what the lawn looked like when I returned. Something new every day, every time.
If you want a fall blooming crocus bulb, you could plant saffron crocus. They're beautiful foliage in the spring and bloom in the fall. You collect the saffron spice after they bloom for food. It's a very expensive seasoning because to harvest the saffron, pickers go out with tweezers and pull just the saffron out of the flowers. This is why asparagus is so expensive because a machine can't harvest it effectively either.
What a wonderful video! I enjoy following you guys. I live in a condo in the densely populated SF Bay Area, so watching your channel is my escape of how life can be. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful, bet the bees love it. It will look more stunning as the years go on too! Well done!
A magnificent project bringing food to butterflies and the entire animal chain. Less water and zero maintenance unlike stupid sod expanses that feed nothing and back breaking to maintain. Very commendable, thank you from the animals. The first to bloom in frosty springs is the crocus sativa - the 3 stamens inside are saffron threads. Use them in cooking and to sell for more bulbs. Make this your cash crop so you can do more plantings with the money. Fresh or dried, put a few into a tiny bit of hot milk and mash it to bring out the color, then use in soups and rice, etc.
I'd love to see a time-lapse of you spring bulb meadow! Also I'd love to see footage of the meadow showing off all the pollinators visiting your flowers!
This is how a lawn SHOULD look! So much color and beauty and so beneficial for insects.
It's great if you're not worried about lyme disease from so many ticks that live in the tall grasses.
@@ltsallwoodSeriously. And rats.
This couple has done an amazing job in a short amount of time especially considering what they started with.
Wow that is a lawn to be proud of, fantastic.
I PLANTED MY OWN BULB LAWN LAST YEAR ABOUT 3,000 BULBS. IT HAS BEEN A GREAT JOY TO WATCH THE DIFFERENT BULBS COMING UP EACH DAY. IT IS ALL OVER NOW AS WE HAD A VERY MILD WINTER AND WARM SPRING. I HAVE TO DECIDE NOW WHETHER TO CUT GRASS OR LEAVE IT LONG IT IS ONLY A SMALL LAWN WE HAVE MOVED A WALKING PATH ALL THE WAY AROUND. I LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS I PLANTED SIBERIAN IRIS LAST WEEK FIRST TIME GROWING THIS, ONLY EVER GROWN FLAG IRISES. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PLANTING AND GARDENING ADVICE I HAVE MADE A LOT OF CHANGES TO MY GARDEN AFTER WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS I JUST HAVE TO PLAN WHAT TO GO WITH MY GRASS NOW I WILL WATCH WITH INTEREST YOUR APPROACH TO WHAT I SHALL CALL THE MAGNOLIA BED
This is amazing! Because of your past videos during the planting, I purchased and planted 300 bulbs in my front lawn last autumn. I love you videos. Recently bought a hori knife and I've been missing out! Thank you!❤
This helps the bees thrive. This was a smart idea because we have a problem keeping bees from the chemicals and other insects. This helps everyone. People don't realize when the bees are gone our food is gone. We all need to plant flowers if we have a garden. They pollinate the flowers then the small flowers from the garden.
I was immediately wondering, how you would get the bulbs in there, without ripping everything up! I like, that you tried different methods for comparison. Very interesting. What an undertaking. With an utterly magical result 🎉
This makes me smile. Few things do these days... But this does it for me.
Ahhhhh, now THAT'S a Meadow!!! This is a dream to me. It fills me with joy knowing it is a real place. I look forward to this meadow EVERY Spring!!!!! I watched you guys install it, and it's been exciting every step of the way. And now just LOOK AT IT!! Haaa! It's a MUST SEE on my calendar!! If, for some reason, the ability to see this meadow via video should ever stop, it would be deeply missed by me. I live very far away and will likely never see it in person. Which makes this way of sharing it so wonderful!! How Glorious to be able to walk amongst all the Spring blooms!! Just WOW!!! Ha! I'm WOWED!! This 2nd year is even better than the first (of coarse!) I'm in awe!! And even if you don't add more, next year will be just FANTASTICAL & UNBELIEVABLE!! Congratulations on doing such a fantastic job with the filming and editing Sander!! I know this one particular subject is very time consuming, and difficult to get all the stages fitted in. You've really done a great job with it!!! And the drone shots are Excellent!!! It's a Spring Dream!!! It's such a pleasure to see that I'm going to rewatch it several times right now! Thank You both for sharing this with me. ❤
On the areas you’re having problems with the grass but have already planted your bulbs, you could put down cardboard with a little compost on top to weigh it down. This should kill the grass before your bulb season starts, but leave the bulbs unaffected since their energy to pop up is stored below the surface anyways.
Beautiful rewards of all your labor! We have blossoming trees, shrubs, and annuals, but what do our bees love most? A tiny boxwood hedge!!! It is emitting the loudest hum this week. There are species of bees mixed in that I’ve never seen before, and the cutest bumble bees with a salmon pink stripe! (Puget Sound area.)
AMAZING PROGRESS as always! Imagine few years down the line. Thank you for the update SUMMER!
You're most welcome.
Yooo Dutchie here! so happy to see this beautiful landscape with these flowers..amazing
The flowers are gorgeous! Also, your videos are beautifully done.
Thank you kindly :)
Absolutely fantastic.... I'm envious. So good for the bees.
18:28 absolutely beautiful! i remember the planting day! stunning outcome 😃👏🏽
Man I wish I could do this down here in Florida. Gorgeous.
God bless you. I so love how much you love our earth. I sooooooo enjoy watching everything you do. The information you provide is extremely valuable and for that I thank you. I have purchased 20 acres three years ago and it has been abused for many years. No soil life or diversity. You have been my teacher along the way. Any ideas on how to combat Canadian thistle? It is beyond me doing by hand. I try to do everything natural but this weed has won the war. I had put down thick layers of cardboard and thick mulch and to my surprise in every flower bed this weed has taken over 😞 At my other home I use boiling water in a tea pot to combat them on a small scale but you have to be careful about scaring nearby plants. ugh! I need help. Thank you.
The camera angles give it an illusion of depth and density. Plus the dandelions are filling in a lot of the empty spaces. All those bulbs were easily swallowed up by the vast landscape. Looking forward to seeing the progress in another 3yrs.
wow so Amazing, just looking at what you've done brings such joy
Absolutely gorgeous! All that hard work paid off...and the pollinators are surely enjoying it. It will just get better every year.🥀🌻🌹🌱
Thank you Ms. Summer, your lawn is beautiful.🌷💚🙃
Every time unearth your videos, I wonder how the bulbs are doing. Thank you for the annual follow up on the project. You should do a late summer follow up on the same
PLANT A FEW THOUSAND MORE!!! YESSSSSSSS!!! If I were able to come help, it would be a labor of Love!!!
Omg!!! How beautiful!!!! 🙋🏼♀️🪴💚🌿
Thanks for teaching me about something that I didn't know about in my own country. Will try this later in the year in the indigenous part of my garden :)
The only problem watching this video is that my screen is too small. Just so beautifully done. ✌️
Congratulations with your beautiful lawn and greetings from The Netherlands .
We have these wonderful native flowers call SPRING BUEATY. MOST lawn people think they are a weed. I think they are free flowers and one of the first flowers for the pollinators. I won't let hubby mow yard till most of them are finished as well.
You've inspired us to do a similar thing in our (much smaller!) deer fenced garden/lawn/fruit tree area this fall. I love having enough to cut for bouquets in the spring too (obviously leaving enough for pollinators).
The end of the video at 18:04-5 was the most beautiful shot of the video. If I were you, I would have that shot blown up and framed to hang in your house. Not only does it showcase the skill of the videographer, which I assume is your husband, but it would be the perfect photograph to remind you of the beauty that you have to look forward to during those long New York winters.
What a stunning show! This made me smile, especially seeing all the bees 🐝
Haven't cut the lawn in 12 years. My geese take care of that. Get some funky stuff growing but most has some kind of flower. 80k bulbs would cost more than my house so good for you!
Your all doing such good work - Thank You!
Absolutely stunning!
Love the meadow look with all the bulbs 💕
What a great idea! I love it!
So beautiful!
What a tremendous garden. An enormous lot of work but worth it. Do have your own hives or do the neighbours visit your flowers?
This is such a beautiful idea!🪻
Beautiful! Great work!
So colorful & beautiful!
Thank you for showing us! It’s so peaceful ❤
Gorgeous!
The bees are going to love you for that.
I am totally blown away by this! Just breathtaking! WOW 💕💕💕💕💕💕
Beautiful made my day to see all the blooms
great job......your hard work and planning is paying off....very nice !
I still have a bag of bulbs from last year, when I was too lazy to find a spot and dig them in. Imagine having 80,000 waiting to be planted. Amazing effort! Gorgeous results. Nature thanks you.
Thank you so much for sharing your progress. I love the videos. The land is a better place for the love and thoughtfulness you are all putting into this.
Muscari, or grape hyacinth, freely grows from self-seeding. I started with about 6 bulbs and after 5 years I have an area about 12 feet long and 4 feet wide of little purple flowers. I know they spread by seed because they weren't in a clump -- they literally popped up the next year at the other end of the space.
Living the dream life..
Yaaaay! I’ve been waiting all year to see this. (The year has flown by!) I love that you give us something so beautiful to look forward to in the spring. :)
Your lawn looks great. The more wild flowers the better.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Absolutely beautiful! This is what a lawn should look like.
Ahh nice I see the bulbs are from Hillegom my hometown. We have those flowers on the side of the road and bikelanes
Breathtaking!! All that will get better every year. You guys did such a great job of making it look semi- wild and native and not out of place.
That's beautiful ❤
I’ve been waiting to see the bulbs in bloom. Wow. Fabulous idea for no mow May.
SO WORTH THE WAIT!! Amazing video thank you for sharing! ❤
Your place is getting more and more beautiful each year 🎉🎉🎉
How blessed you are ❤
I’ve been waiting for this video ever since I saw your original bulb planting!
Awesome Thanks for Sharing
Beautiful and peaceful
Thank you for this beautiful update❤ How’s Joey doing? We need a Flock Friends update, the Q and A video was awesome.
He and Kiya need to get their butts back up to Flock! They'll be back up next month. :)
Excellent! This is the direction I want to go in for my backyard! Seeing the results of your planting was so helpful and sealed the deal!❤
After only one year the meadows look so alive and colorful. I can only imagine how beautiful and humming with constant buzzing of bees in another year or two. My little assortment of tulipa kaufmanniana always brings me such joy each spring; and they are multiplying so very well. After seeing your checkered fritilleria, I decided I need to have those too! Thank you for sharing and inspiring.
Beautiful!
Very Beautiful …the land is blossoming, you and your friends have done an amazing job !
I live in the Netherlands and absolutley love this. Every spring we have all the bulbs that come out and it just looks beautiful every time :)
Ah, how beautiful...love the field of color...always nice to see color after a long cold winter!
Thank you for this! You have inspired me! I'm doing a bulb lawn this fall!🌷💖
It is neat seeing the results of the project. I recall when you guys cut the sod for the first technique mentioned. I couldn't help but smile of the thought of all of those plants popping up all over the place.
First of all, your video production was beautiful, relaxing and uplifting. I then drank in the beauty of the bulbs and the natural lawn plan. I personally love a wild lawn. Just lovely!
Astounding amount of work! And finally,what a treat!
So cool.
Bravo! You have every right to be proud. What an amazing achievement !
Beautiful work🎉😊
I planted a box of mixed bulbs from Lidl not one came up. Glad I could get to see this!