Easy to Please Bulbs& and City Code S(to)P:It/3.No/W Explained
Boise Weekly › August 05, 2009
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When I was a kid, we got a hilarious annual Christmas letter from Great Aunt Pauline--a four-page psychotic recitation of the tragedies that had befallen people in her little town. My brother usually read it aloud while we hooted ourselves sick. One year when the letter's P.S. read: "Oh, Marge died, and Harry fell in a hole," my mother managed to choke out, "THROW IN SOME BULBS!" which was so unlike her that we practically had to be revived.
Flower bulbs can play tricks on you because they tend to grow and bloom even if you do everything backward--for a year. Then they produce weeny little gray blooms and you have to start up your Prozac again. For gorgeous blooms from bulbs, say this in a caveman voice: "Make nice dirt. Dig hole. Put bulb. Put nice dirt. Ugh." Nuances like hole depth, water and bulb food are usually on the packet of bulbs, or are easily found at www.GardenWeb.com.Our local nurseries carry bulbs, but there is far greater variety through catalogs. You can be the first on your block to grow black tulips, pink daffodils or leopard-spotted bearded iris--not my favorite, because I think the "beard" looks like a big tongue going "bleah"--but most people love iris. Order now for fall planting and while you're waiting for them to arrive, follow a cow around with a bucket. People will understand.See the full content of this document
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Easy to Please Bulbs& and City Code S(to)P:It/3.No/W Explained
When I was a kid, we got a hilarious annual Christmas letter from Great Aunt Pauline--a four-page psychotic recitation of the tragedies that had befallen people in her little town. My brother usually read it aloud while we h...
See the full content of this document
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