i bought three hundred daffodil bulbs last fall, and asked my daughter to plant them for me. she did, but this spring, only about 5 or 10 showed up at first. eva, did you plant the bulbs right side up? eva didn’t know. which meant that, statistically speaking, about half of the bulbs were planted upside down. so now the upside down bulbs are slowly finding their way to the surface, but in thin delicate waves, and what was supposed to be a thick, shaggy head of spring daffodil hair looks like a windblown comb over.

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saint paul, minnesota