Wicked Garden

I'm getting to be pretty bummed out all as a result of my flowers. I was really excited this spring about buying deck planters and bulbs and as our beloved Riehl Gardener says "making my garden beautiful"! Unfortunately, my little deck garden is not beautiful. It could be more accurately described as "non-existent". I have tall, rapidly growing flower stalks but still no flowers. No lilies, no irises, no freesia. Just tall weed-like green stalks. I just recently found out (yesterday) that my poor flowers may not grow at all this summer, that bulbs usually don't flower the first year. All those afternoon pep talks I gave those guys the past two months were wasted!