It's spring in Edmonton, and Lazy Gnome loves the refreshing first flowers from bulbs planted in the fall...Lazy Gnome of course loves these because there is virtually no work this early in the year: you just dig a wee hole, through them in and Mother Nature kindly nurtures them over the winter--the hardes part is making sure they are in right-side up. The miracle is the urge within the bulbs that drives these shoots to surge upward, reminding us there is life over the long, dark winters, even if we hide inside rubbing our hands together for warmth. It is amazing these things can survive! No doubt there is a history of these little bundles of happiness...It seems to Lazy Gnome that we had an early and mild spring this year, with little to no precipitation of any kind after Christmas...the first red tips of these tulips were noticed April 1 and given the warm temperatures in April (26C+ one day!!) they may have bloomed earlier if there had been any rain. Another amazing fact about these particular tulips here by the cast iron bunny, is that they were rudely and abruptly re-located on Sewer Day....but that story is still to come. And, yes, that is a weed....argh!
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