The Tulip Experiment

About two years ago my husband started on an endeavor to clean up our yard. The previous house owners had planted a plethora of various plants, flowers, and shrubs which I had no desire time to keep up with. It was impossible to tell what would bloom next, and there was always a friggin bee convention located on, near, or under the front stoop.

It had to end.

We methodically started pulling things up and getting rid of them, including a beautiful bed of tulips planted around this random rock (it IS the Granite State) in the yard. I felt horrible yanking each one and tossing it away, so I hid one away from my husband and secretly shoved it under the soil planted it in the bed surrounding our lamppost. This area was apparently restricted to daffodils ONLY.

I forgot about it until a few days ago.

See that?

One splash of red among our sea of daffodils. Kind of like a defiant "up yours".

My perfect little tulip!

Rock on, tulip, rock on.