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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Iowa State Tulip.......
This tulip pops up every year in a rough section of my hedge and it looks like a small spot among the rubble. Fortunately the zoom lets me bring in the bloom from over the fence and makes it look like I have a wonderful garden full of flowers.
Deception is the key to having a garden blog when you gardens looks so bad. I have a couple of bulbs of this variety planted elsewhere but they are not as fully in bloom as this one. I have an old high school friend who sees pictures of my flowers on facebook and she keeps asking to bring a bus full of people for a tour of my gardens. I get a laugh from that request off and on through the years.
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2 comments:
That is a great tulip. Flowers have a way of growing best in the most difficult places! I remember about 4 houses ago, John invited some folks from work to see the garden and the day they came there was absolutely NOTHING blooming!
I can relate. Hilarious, Larry...;)
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