Thanks, Larry. I knew I could count on you! I'm too old to force my tulips on anyone.
Paperwhites are the traditional bulbs for indoor forcing. I Love tulips, but usually buy some potted from our local nursery for Easter and Mother's Day. At our first home (after the MOQs) we grew quite a number and variety of tulips along our front walk. That was in a more developed part of town, and before the local deer herds exploded. We planted lots of them when we moved here, but tulip flowers are the absolute favorite food of deer, and they made short work of them. I even tried planting a few behind the fencing I use to protect our few rose bushes, but that resulted only in a battered fence. Years ago, we went to visit the explosion of spring bulbs at Keukenhof, in the Netherlands. What an incredible display they put on there! We joked at the tulip bulbs they were selling, referring to them as "deer food." They also sold unpainted wooden tulips, and I decided it would be fun to get some of those to sick in the ground and amaze the neighbors. I bought a dozen, brought them home, mounted them on 1/8 in dowels, painted them bright spring colors, and applied two coats of varnish to make them weather resistant. I "planted" these wooden tulips along our front yard, to add a bit of color where there was little after daffodil season, The next morning, all the wooden tulips were lying scattered on the ground. The deer, tempted by the shape and colors of their favorite treat, had bitten each off, and then of course spit out the inedible wood. That is how strongly they are attracted to tulips. So now I enjoy a few hothouse pots of tulips, indoors, each spring, and remember my wooden decoys. But for indoor forcing, paperwhites are both traditional and easier. *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery> * On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 1:40 AM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > You’re doing that with your narcissus because you don’t know how to force > your tulips? > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
