Several weeks ago we spotted this one, lone red tulip in the yard. Not in the flower bed you can see just to edge of the picture. This flower bed is NOT where I've planted tulips at all as a matter of fact. What is a fact is that all the red tulips are on the side of the house, this picture is in the back yard. Now birds can sometimes drop seeds and things can sprout in odd places; but tulips don't have seeds. In fact their bulbs are pretty good size, AND their planted on the surface but about 6 inches below the soil. So.........me thinks some silly squirrel is nuts. Rather he or she was planting nuts, dug up my bulb thinking it was a nut and never remember to come back to it for dinner along the way. Or perhaps he or she did come back for a snack and realized....hum, that's not a nut!
Here's a close up my lone tulip. Intended to dig it up to transplant it back where it belongs after it bloomed; but it's been raining alot and so, I've not gotten that done.We enjoyed it's beauty just the same.
It is a lovely tulip..I'll put my money on the cwazy squirrel.. We have one here who eats the red roses right off the plant.Have a good w/e...
ReplyDeleteHubby just put new plants in the window boxes. I am not outdoorsy but I love the pretty flowers, so colorful. Really spices up the place. So I can understand your joy at the lone tulip. :-) Pretty bit of color among the green.
ReplyDeleteHI SANDY,
ReplyDeleteI PLANTED BULB FLOWERS ONE YEAR AROUND THE MAIL BOX, COULDN'T WAIT FOR SPRING TO SEE THEM.
THE SQUIRRELS MUST HAVE EATEN THEM, THERE WAS NO SIGN OF ANYTHING. HAVE A NICE TRIP. RIZZI
How delightfully interesting! But do we even have squirrels in our country?......
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