A tulip - and a story.
Nine or 10 years ago, HullBoss and I planted a bunch of bulbs, tulips and hyacinths mostly, in a bed alongside our house. The following spring some of them came up, not all, and the year after that only two broke the ground, and they never bloomed. Just a few pathetic leaves and then they'd die back. Year after year, the same thing. A few years ago, I decided maybe they weren't getting enough sunshine in that spot, so I dug them up in the fall and planted them in a sunnier place, deep like you're supposed to. Spring arrives and the transplanted bulbs don't sprout, BUT two plants come up where I know I had dug them up the previous fall. So I must have left a piece or something. They still didn't bloom though.
But this year, a miracle. We FINALLY got a tulip and she's beautiful. I don't know what's different, but there it is. Last year I got peony blooms on a plant that hadn't bloomed in years, and it looks like this year will be a repeat. Maybe the angle of the sun really is changing like the Native elders are saying.
Anyway, here's the tulip in its glory.
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