Amazing. Wooden tulips from Keukenhof consumed by deer. You could try steel tulips.
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 13:45, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Larry. I knew I could count on you! I'm too old to force my > tulips on anyone. > > Paperwhites are the traditional bulbs for indoor forcing. > > I Love tulips, but usually buy some potted from our local nursery for > Easter and Mother's Day. At our first home (after the MOQs) we grew quite > a number and variety of tulips along our front walk. That was in a more > developed part of town, and before the local deer herds exploded. We > planted lots of them when we moved here, but tulip flowers are the absolute > favorite food of deer, and they made short work of them. I even tried > planting a few behind the fencing I use to protect our few rose bushes, but > that resulted only in a battered fence. > > Years ago, we went to visit the explosion of spring bulbs at Keukenhof, in > the Netherlands. What an incredible display they put on there! We joked > at the tulip bulbs they were selling, referring to them as "deer food." > They also sold unpainted wooden tulips, and I decided it would be fun to > get some of those to sick in the ground and amaze the neighbors. I bought > a dozen, brought them home, mounted them on 1/8 in dowels, painted them > bright spring colors, and applied two coats of varnish to make them weather > resistant. I "planted" these wooden tulips along our front yard, to add a > bit of color where there was little after daffodil season, The next > morning, all the wooden tulips were lying scattered on the ground. The > deer, tempted by the shape and colors of their favorite treat, had bitten > each off, and then of course spit out the inedible wood. That is how > strongly they are attracted to tulips. > > So now I enjoy a few hothouse pots of tulips, indoors, each spring, and > remember my wooden decoys. But for indoor forcing, paperwhites are both > traditional and easier. > > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery> * > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 1:40 AM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You’re doing that with your narcissus because you don’t know how to force > > your tulips? > > -- > > Larry Colen > > [email protected] > > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
