Bulbs, and restrooms, set to bloom at DBG
/As the season begins, hours are being extended at the Delaware Botanic Gardens in Dagsboro, new restrooms will soon open and thousands of bulbs planted last fall will bloom into a spectacular display of color beginning around mid-March.
Staff and hard-working volunteers situated 84,000 crocus, tulip and grape hyacinth bulbs with crocuses in shades of lavender, purple, orange and blue. Red, white and yellow tulips will open and grape hyacinths will bloom in pale blue and bright purple.
“Everyone is looking forward to that. The bulbs are planted very close together, lining the pathways in large groups so you get a feel for something very natural,” Director Stephen Pryce Lea said.
“We wanted a colorful walkway from the Welcome Center. I chose four or five types of bulbs in large numbers and put them in bold swaths throughout the meadow among the grasses there. It looks quite amazing now. Even with the temperatures we have had, and snow, we are already seeing crocuses coming up, already an inch or inch and one-half above the ground. Crocus tends to be first. You can get very early ones. They bloom in early March to mid-March. There were no daffodils planted. We wanted to keep it very natural and leave the daffodils for the wild factor elsewhere. We wanted a rainbow palette and other areas have just one variety.