While I was chopping ice off the walkway last week, a neighbor out for a stroll stopped to chat. The conversation turned to gardening. “Do you like bulbs?” she asked. Hailing from the area of Brent and Beckys Bulbs in Ware Neck, VA, naturally I said yes. “Well, they’re planted all over this lawn,” she added. I looked around. I know they’re up and blooming in Virginia but not a one had broken through the ground here.
After she left, I tried to visualize a lawn full of blooms. That is difficult to do. But just trying to visualize tulips made me reflect on our small group that traveled with Brent and Becky to Holland in the spring of 2010 and our visit to the dazzling gardens of Keukenhof near Amsterdam. Oh, how much fun it would be if this lawn lit up with a rainbow of colors like we saw in Holland.
I posted some photos from that 2010 trip while traveling, but being in a bulb mood now, I’m posting a few more pictures today.
I’ll be checking the lawn in New Hampshire every day for signs of emerging bulbs. I’ll post a photo if it looks anything like Keukenhof Gardens. Hurry up, spring!
What magnificent photos! I hope your bulbs pop up soon. It’s 78 degrees here right now. Tonight it’s supposed to get cold and rainy so I’m going to cut my daffodils and bring them inside to enjoy.
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How lucious! Thank you Annie.
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Flowers are indeed blooming in Virginia now, but none of them rival the blooms in Keukenhof!
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What fate it would be for you to be living in NH with a yard full of blooming bulb flowers! Or what luck these flowers are to have you as their caregiver! I am a bit jealous you been to Keukenhof, the Disney Land of flowers! It’s another place on my bucket dream list.
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Every photo is incredible!!!
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