Tulips are great eh? You just wait till the
snow is gone, and a few weeks later, they just pop up all colourful and happy
in the garden. It’s magical. Set it, and forget it!
So last fall, I purchased
something like 70 tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, and iris bulbs, and one pompom
flower. Bulbs be cheap, guys – did you know you can get a whole BAG full of
them for like $10? And that you get to pick out the colours that go in the bag?
Naturally I got every available colour.
I planted them all over my mom’s
garden, looking forward to a rainbowlicious Spring 2013 – and hoping the damn
pesky squirrels that hang around my house didn’t eat them all.
Winter came, the little bastard squirrels
seemed to get chubbier and chubbier, and I got worried that my zealous fall
bulbing would be for nought.
But I didn't expect this to be a tag-team crime. Turns out squirrels were just the middle-men and rabbits were the real culprit:
They Morticia Addams-ed all my glorious bulbs, wah!
Here's how it went down. I put out bird feeders. To feed birds. But the squirrels got to the feeders no matter where we hung them, and they constantly dumped all the seed onto the ground. Where the rabbits could get at it. And once the rabbits had a taste for free food, they were hooked - apparently bird seed is like viagra-laced crack for varmints. They multiplied (one evening, I shoo'd away FIVE rabbits at the same time), so we stopped providing bird seed. They didn't like that, so they chewed nearly all my poor darling bulbs. It's a cruel cruel world.
They left a few bulbs to grow, but most were lost. Here are the survivors:
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| pretty peach-coloured hyacinth |
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| big light purples and 2 'parrot' ones |
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| more purples and feathery ones |
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| I can't remember what this was called, but look how cool! |
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| In an attempt to save the remaining flowers, I put out a disco flamingo, a tomato cage, and a surly gnome as bulb security. |
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