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A 'mania' by people over tulips - no.
But a mania by animals - I understand.
Five decades ago my mom wanted tulips in the garden southeast
of the garage. So dad planted some (a lot) for her.
The first (and only) year that they bloomed, they were beautiful!
One day my dad was out with the garden hose watering the flower garden.
While doing so, he thought he saw one of the tulip plants MOVE.
It became apparent that the plant was getting SHORTER - and sinking
into the ground - something was sucking down the tulip plant!
It was moles - burrowing under the tulips and eating them
from below - bulbs first. And eat them they did - every last one.
Dad never planted another tulip after that.
Instead of half a dozen varieties of tulips, he replaced
them with about two dozen varieties of daylilles.
Mom was happy, dad was happy - and all was well - until the local deer
decided that they liked to eat the 'Snow Blizzard' variety
of the daylillies. The ONLY variety that the deer ate -
they left all the rest alone. Weird, eh?
So my dad did not plant any more of that variety,
and there was peace and tranquility in the gardens once again.
But why they decided to name a cream colored flower 'Snow Blizzard' is a mystery to me.
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Snow Blizzard:
