It's Tulip Time!

What?  It's fall!  Tulips bloom in the spring, but if you want them then, you need to plant the bulbs NOW.  One of my very favorite bulb companies, Longfield Gardens, sent me some tulip bulbs and I planted them yesterday.

We have a strip of This, That and The Other growing at the south edge of our property, which we put there as a sort of privacy feature. (That's really a much too sophisticated name for what this is.)  Since we live in extreme rural America, part of our per...