Blooming Impatient
I start bringing tulips into the house in February. It’s my annual attempt to hurry the spring season, and it usually works. Those few new blooms on the kitchen table each week are often all I need to carry me to now, when the riot of color moves off my table and into the garden—forsythia and crocus first, followed by tulips, hyacinths and daffodils, although I’m in a constant battle with the squirrels to get my tulips to bloom before they bite the buds off. If you fight similar backyard battles, check out our readers’ tips on page 7 for suggestions on how to combat the critters this year. I got some new ideas from you all, and I bet others will, too. Perhaps your spring bulbs are still just pushing their…