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Have any of you ever received Breck’s catalog? For those of you who have never heard of them, they sell bulbs from Holland. I don’t know why I got their catalog in the mail. I’m sure someone sold my name to them--jerks. Anyway, back in August their catalog was in my mailbox.
I should have never looked at it. They just sucked me in. Look at all the different kinds of tulips! What great prices! Why, on the back cover there was a special deal just for me! Breck’s promised me that for $24.95 these bulbs were guaranteed to grow in my San Antonio garden. How could I pass up an offer like that? Plus if I ordered before September 11th, I would get some bonus tulips for FREE. Sounds good to me. But Wait! If I ordered over $60 worth of bulbs, I would get even some more bonus tulips. Now they’re getting too pushy. I didn’t fall for that trap. I do have some willpower. Did I mention that I really don’t have a garden? But then I saw a picture of a house with a tulips in the yard and I thought, "That’s what I want my yard to look like, dammit!". I could almost hear myself singing, "The hills are alive with the scent of tulips!". Do tulips even smell? It dawned on me later that I don’t live in the Texas Hill Country anyway.
I WENT CRAZY. Here’s what I ordered:
20 Alpine Rosy Bells (Allium oreophilum)
10 Economy Tulip mixture
8 Giant Daffodils for Naturalizing (whatever that means) 10 Giant Crocus for Naturalizing
9 Hardy Glad Mix (Gladiolus nanus)
20 Blue Grape Hyacinths (Muscari armeniacum)
10 King Edward Tulips
14 Grecian Windflowers (Anemone blanda)
10 Rembrandt Tulip mixture
20 Lavender Mountain Lilly (Ixiolirion pallasii)
10 Early Stardrift (Puschkinia libanotica)
12 Tall Dutch Iris Mixture
3 Yellow Trumpet Daffodil (bonus bulbs)
10 Purple Crocus (bonus bulbs)
I ordered 166 bulbs for a garden I do not have. I have no flower beds at all.
My order took forever to ship. It finally arrived the week before Halloween. I promised to give some to my friend for her birthday, which was in.....July. I promised some to Gwen because I knew she would be thrilled to have them.
I planted some bulbs in some pots, but I still have a lot left to plant, along with my freesia bulbs from last year. I would just plant some in the yard, but I don’t trust my husband to mow around them. Some of the bulbs I planted are already coming up. I think it may be crocus. Of course, I forgot to mark what it was.
Oh, and Breck’s had the nerve to send their summer catalog with my order. Must. Be. Strong.
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