Tulips or daffidoils. What are we?
From:
Andrew Zimmer
Date:
May 13 22:15 UTC
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We are in but how about something completely different. When I was a kid in
Bloomington, MN we had Siberian Squill,
http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/Features/bulbs/scilla%20siberica/scilla%20sibirica.htm,
in the grass in the front yard. They smell like purple candy but they only
bloom for a week or so first thing in the spring. I moved some Siberian Squill
to our backyard here where they have bloomed and lost their petals before our
daffodils and tulips started flowering.
The US Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center has some information about
bulbs for our region,
http://www.bulb.com/templates/dispatcher.asp?page_id=northerncentral. A bunch
of Alliums would be pretty cool.
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Daffodils, count me in...
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Subject: [Mpls-StanEric] Tulips or daffidoils. What are we?
Now that we've passionately unleashed on Lake Hiawatha, I'd like to take a
dip in another topic.
Is our neighborhood more of a tulip or daffidoils neighborhood?
Here is the idea. Find a bulk provider of hardy bulbs this fall. Get 100 or
more neighbors to agree to buy a dozen at a normal price and donate the
extra dozen to planting in public spaces around the neighborhood. So 100
participants would get us 1200 bulbs to "share."
So if we become the most bulbulious neighborhood in town, what flower says
who we are?
Also, can we actually donate bulbs or plant them say around park signs at
Lake Hiawatha or naturalize a cluster or three along the light rail, etc.?
Or would distribution need to more of a night-time affair? ;-)
Steven Clift
Steven Clift
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