Bulbs revisited

There's something similar in the joy of digging up potatoes and watching your fall planted bulbs grow and bloom. I think it's a combination made up partly of suspense and partly surprise. The tulips (and crocuses and hyacinths) pictured here were planted by students in the boxes outside of the children's garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden using a design made by last year's horticulture interns, including me. So it's been fun to visit the boxes at Brooklyn Botanic periodically this year and see how they are developing. This week, they are finally full of color, but there's more yet to come.

A Bulb and A Bloom

At Brooklyn Botanic on Friday, Susan, Anne and I checked for signs of life in the boxes near the children's garden. The boxes are planted with daffodils, crocus, hyacinth and tulips and designed by 2010's horticulture interns. Beneath the netting to keep out critters we found a bulb making its way to the sunlight. And then we were wowed by the display in the Warm Temperate Pavilion where the South African beauties like the Moraea below are blooming.