{"id":390,"date":"2009-11-09T17:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-11-09T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:35:20","slug":"do-not-open-until-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Do not open until spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather has been just gorgeous here, sunny and close to 70 for the past couple of days. I spent yesterday afternoon outside, and finally got my new tulips planted. <\/p>\n<p>I visited a flower market in Amsterdam, and was astounded by the variety and abundance. Truly, I was astounded by the plants everywhere, from parks to urban windowboxes. But oh, the tulips!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/amsterdam200909-10.jpg\" alt=\"Amsterdam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wandered through, looking at the photos. &#8220;I want that one, and that one, and ooooh pretty!&#8221; But I was positive that it would be highly embarrassing if not worse for a USDA employee to be caught smuggling tulip bulbs through customs, so I brought back nothing but notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brecks.com\/default.asp\">Breck&#8217;s<\/a> is happy to import Dutch tulip bulbs for me &#8211; all I have to do is pay for them, with no complicated paperwork or customs inspections for me to think about. I bought them on the October day that we got 7 inches of snow, so I might have gotten a little carried away: &#8220;Think of spring! Think of spring! Don&#8217;t think about snow in October!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, come spring, my front flowerbed will look like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/tulip1.jpg\" alt=\"tulips\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/tulip2.jpg\" alt=\"tulips\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the side bed will feature an assortment of these:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/tulip3.jpg\" alt=\"tulips\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/tulip4.jpg\" alt=\"tulips\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2\/tulip5.jpg\" alt=\"tulips\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick&#8217;s mother&#8217;s mailbox will be surrounded with brightly-colored blooms, and my mother&#8217;s house will have some new spring flowers. My brother Nate and his wife Laura bought a new house this summer with a lot of land, so they certainly needed Dutch tulip bulbs of their own.<\/p>\n<p>I will report back with real photographs in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather has been just gorgeous here, sunny and close to 70 for the past couple of days. I spent yesterday afternoon outside, and finally got my new tulips planted. I visited a flower market in Amsterdam, and was astounded by the variety and abundance. Truly, I was astounded by the plants everywhere, from parks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}