This year the Master Gardeners are expanding their fall fundraiser! They are selling Certified Organic Music Garlic that everyone loves in addition to some flowering bulbs. New this year shallots in limited supply!
Pick-up will be on Saturday October 5th from 10am-12 noon at our office at 232 Plaza Road, Kingston.
Music Garlic ½ LB FOR $11.00- SOLD OUT
Music Garlic is a very popular selection derived from German Extra Hardy. It is prized for its jumbo cloves, long storage potential, and strong field performance in cold climates. Skins are very thick and tightly wrapped, with creamy white color. Expect 4–5 cloves per head. A stiff hardneck type.
Ed's Red Seed Shallot-1/2 pound plantable cloves $8-SOLD OUT
A large, red skinned, dutch style shallot with excellent storage life.
1/2 pound of seed shallots (plantable cloves) can be planted in the fall or early spring. You will get a cluster of shallots from each plantable clove.
Ed's Red Shallot Seed-1/2 oz seed packet $6
A large, red skinned, dutch sytle shallot with excellent storage life. With growing shallots directly from seed you will get one shallot per seed.
Direct Sow: In April or early May, or as soon as the soil can be work in the spring, sow 2 seeds per inch., 1/4– 1/2" deep, rows 12–18" apart. Thin to 2" apart for highest yield.
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Start indoors: Sow seeds indoors in flats in late February to mid-March. Broadcast 1/2" apart and cover 1/4". Tops may be clipped to 5" tall. Transplant to the garden 4" apart, or sow 5 seeds in each cell of 1–1 1/2" diameter cell trays, thinning to 3 per cell. Transplant each cell 6" apart.
Allium Sphaerocephalon-SOLD OUT
Drumstick allium. The last of the bulbous alliums to bloom. Its egg-shaped, wine-red flowerheads wait until summer to color up. Puts on a nice show when planted in tight groups in a perennial border, and the bees do love it.
Deer Resistant
Note: Alliums are resistant to deer, but rodents such as voles and gophers may eat the bulbs.
Height: 22—26 inches
Sunlight: Full (6+ hours sun per day)
Soil: Well drained
Bloom Time: Very Late
Package of 20 for $10
Allium Purple Rain-OUT OF STOCK
Very similar to Purple Sensation. It has a bit more red in its purple. Early flowering by the standards of alliums: It is among the first of the big balls-on-a-stick to take on color in the late-spring garden. Attractive and available at a price that allows you to plant in volume.
Height:28—32 inches
Sunlight: Full (6+ hours sun per day)
Soil: Well drained
Bloom Time: Very Late
Package of 5 for $5
Allium Siculum-LOW STOCK
Honey garlic. Pendent clusters of cream, green, and maroon bells as spring leans to summer. Unusual, distinctive, architectural, subtle. Also: perennial. “Siculum” means “from Sicily,” and that hints at what this bulb needs: lots of sun and very good drainage.
Deer Resistant
Height: 28—32 inches
Sunlight: Full (6+ hours sun per day)
Soil: Well drained
Bloom Time: Very Late
Package of 10 for $8
Snake's Head Fritillaria
Fritillaria meleagris
Pointed buds open to maroon (occasionally white), bell-shaped blooms. Snake’s Head looks like a wildflower and is best used as such — in a meadow, under trees, around shrubs. Happiest in part shade and evenly moist soil.
Deer Resistant
Note: Snake’s Head is resistant to deer, but rodents such as voles and gophers may eat the bulbs.
Height”10—12 inches
Sunlight: Part (3-4 hours sun per day)
Soil: Evenly moist
Flower Color: Maroon and White
Bloom Time: Early-Mid
Package of 10 for $8.00
Daffodil Erlicheer
Erlicheer is a sweetly scented double daffodil that bears 6–12 small white flowers on each stem. The flowers resemble miniature gardenias and are easily as fragrant. Grows well in the South and on the West Coast but may not persist in cold climates.
Height: 12—14 inches
SunlightFull (6+ hours sun per day)
Soil: Well drained
Bloom Time: Mid
Depth of Planting Hole: 6 inches
Spacing: 4 inches apart
Package of 5 bulbs for $10
Big Ups® Tulip Blend
An inviting blend of strong-growing Dawring hybrid tuplis. They welcome all viewers with a hello shout.
Big Ups is a carefully choreographed blend of topsize tulips. Their flowers are large, their colors complementary, their vigor impressive. It’s not unusual for them to repeat their performance for two or three springs.
Height: 20—24 inches
Sunlight: Full (6+ hours sun per day)
Soil: Well drained
Bloom Time: Mid
Package of 10 for $10
Spanish Bluebells-OUT OF STOCK
Hyacinthoides hispanica ‘Excelsior’
A shade-tolerant plant that bears spikes of lightly fragrant, lavender-blue, bell-shaped flowers toward the end of the bulb season. Ideal for naturalizing below shade trees.
Height:14—18 inches
Sunlight: Full or PartSoilWell drained
Bloom Time: Late
Package of 5 for $5
Celestial™ Chionodoxa Blend-LOW STOCK
Chionodoxa
A blend of two Glory of the Snow varieties—one sapphire-blue, the other pure white. Planted with abandon, they mirror a bright, clear spring sky. Blue leads. White appears, cloudlike, a day or three behind. Introduced 2024
Deer and Rodent Resistant
Height: 3—5 inches
Sunlight: Full or Part
Soil Well: drained
Bloom Time: Early
Package of 10 for $5
(sorry no refunds)
Courtney Churchill
Master Gardener Coordinator/ Agriculture Program Assistant
cmc534@cornell.edu
845-340-3990 ext. 335
CCE Ulster
232 Plaza Road (Hannaford Plaza)
Kingston, New York 12401
Last updated October 3, 2024