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Article: Last call for tulips and hyacinths.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- December 8, 2005
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Byline: Norman Winter
This year was my first time to take part in the Black Friday Christmas shopping chaos. From now on, I'll just stay at home and plant bulbs. I am not talking about daffodils, although I suppose if you found a good buy you could certainly do that. What I am really talking about are tulips and hyacinths purchased back in October.
Now I know many of you are locked down in winter and you are way ahead of the rest of us. But there are those of us procrastinators who live in zone 6-9 who plant a little later. I am from the old school that buys the bulbs in October and chills them in the refrigerator until planting time in December. Be ...