Those look a lot like daffodil bulbs! That’s hundreds of dollars worth of bulbs. Gather them up, plant them en masse, and then see what types bloom.
HeavyNeedleworker707
Oh my goodness! Plant those puppies! And just see what comes up! Try to give them at least a half day’s sun.
Bubbly_Power_6210
maybe from decades of growing in an old home site- share them out and post us when they bloom!
Immer_Susse
Would an animal be storing them? How’d they all get there?
FloraMaeWolfe
My question is why are they there in such numbers? Did a person put them there? If so, why? Did an animal do it? Why? They look like a human did it but I can’t think of any reason off the top of my head to even do this.
rawklobstah84
Could be culls. They get mouldy and sometimes come infested with mites, if you sell, you gotta pitch em.
d3n4l2
Daffodil/narcissus/spider lily. Very cool find, I’m envious.
Minflick
You can make squirrel cages out of chicken wire. You can buy them, too. I made a ‘box’, dug the hole, put in the bulbs and covered with soil, closed the box and covered with more soil, had bulbs until I left that house. That way, burrowing vermin and squirrels can’t get the bulbs. They might bite off the new shoots when they sprout in the spring, but the bulbs themselves will be safe.
Content-Grade-3869
I’m thinking Daffodils
Outside-Ice-5665
Had a friend who raised beautiful , prize winning iris for sale. The bulbs reproduced so well that he couldn’t keep up so he would take the bulbs to the edge of nearby (unowned, not state or federal either) woods and spread them out to grow wild. Imagine someone coming across gorgeous iris ( or daffodils! ) blooms In the wild!
Particular_Win2752
If anyone can, without doubt, confirm what those are. I have $100 that you deserve for being able to see into the future.
Slight_Sense_432
It looks like alot of scrap wood and branches and such leftover from a flash flood.
AtmosphereThen7489
Qqq1
BronL-1912
They look like daffodils to me
dl_bos
Daffodil bulbs. Plant now for blooms next spring. Winter hardy. Let leaves die back then mow over them if you want. Will multiply and need to be thinned when blooms are not as prolific but that is in 4 or 5 years. Bulbs and foliage are not edible and animals including deer do not bother mine. I literally have hundreds of these at my property edge under deciduous trees. They do their thing early spring before the trees leaf out.
celeste00tine
The earth provides
Dry-Task-9789
Lived upstate, and found that the only bulbs that survived the squirrels were those that had fragrant herbs like basil growing over them!
oroborus68
They are hyacinths. Some places replace them every year and toss the old ones away. The cemetery used to have piles of bulbs in the back woods and we would get some for our garden. Tulips and daffodils were treated the same way.
Somederpsomewhere
Landscaper here,
I know everyone is set on daffodils, but those look much more like naked lady bulbs to me, Amarylis belladonna.
Someone probably planted something new and dug those up. Likely having plenty of others, they decided to ditch those.
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Those look a lot like daffodil bulbs! That’s hundreds of dollars worth of bulbs. Gather them up, plant them en masse, and then see what types bloom.
Oh my goodness! Plant those puppies! And just see what comes up! Try to give them at least a half day’s sun.
maybe from decades of growing in an old home site- share them out and post us when they bloom!
Would an animal be storing them? How’d they all get there?
My question is why are they there in such numbers? Did a person put them there? If so, why? Did an animal do it? Why? They look like a human did it but I can’t think of any reason off the top of my head to even do this.
Could be culls. They get mouldy and sometimes come infested with mites, if you sell, you gotta pitch em.
Daffodil/narcissus/spider lily. Very cool find, I’m envious.
You can make squirrel cages out of chicken wire. You can buy them, too. I made a ‘box’, dug the hole, put in the bulbs and covered with soil, closed the box and covered with more soil, had bulbs until I left that house. That way, burrowing vermin and squirrels can’t get the bulbs. They might bite off the new shoots when they sprout in the spring, but the bulbs themselves will be safe.
I’m thinking Daffodils
Had a friend who raised beautiful , prize winning iris for sale. The bulbs reproduced so well that he couldn’t keep up so he would take the bulbs to the edge of nearby (unowned, not state or federal either) woods and spread them out to grow wild. Imagine someone coming across gorgeous iris ( or daffodils! ) blooms In the wild!
If anyone can, without doubt, confirm what those are. I have $100 that you deserve for being able to see into the future.
It looks like alot of scrap wood and branches and such leftover from a flash flood.
Qqq1
They look like daffodils to me
Daffodil bulbs. Plant now for blooms next spring. Winter hardy. Let leaves die back then mow over them if you want. Will multiply and need to be thinned when blooms are not as prolific but that is in 4 or 5 years. Bulbs and foliage are not edible and animals including deer do not bother mine. I literally have hundreds of these at my property edge under deciduous trees. They do their thing early spring before the trees leaf out.
The earth provides
Lived upstate, and found that the only bulbs that survived the squirrels were those that had fragrant herbs like basil growing over them!
They are hyacinths. Some places replace them every year and toss the old ones away. The cemetery used to have piles of bulbs in the back woods and we would get some for our garden. Tulips and daffodils were treated the same way.
Landscaper here,
I know everyone is set on daffodils, but those look much more like naked lady bulbs to me, Amarylis belladonna.
Someone probably planted something new and dug those up. Likely having plenty of others, they decided to ditch those.
Not US native, but I think they’re neat.