Long before its arrival, snowdrops and crocus appear,
sometimes piercing curiously through the last remnants of melting snow. Soon after, anemones and
glory-of-the-snow gladden our eyes and lift our winter-depressed spirits, their colorful drifts punctuated
by egg-yolk-yellow daffodils.
There is such a colorful variety of spring bulbs, and their succession does not end before late spring
when stately tulips flount their riotous colors.
For a gardener the joy of spring bulbs is two-fold. Like everybody else, they love the wonderful spring
display, but for gardeners the greater joy lies perhaps in the anticipation of things to come that is
experienced months earlier: For bulbs have to be pondered over, selected, bought, and planted in the fall.
And the bulb lover can hardly wait until the nurseries and garden centers announce: "Spring bulbs are in!"
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