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Monday, March 31st, 2008

Posted by Craig Sailor @ 11:23:23 am

These daffodils look worse for wear after yesterday's snowfall at Willapa Bay.

I spent the weekend out at my parents' place in Pacific County. I had a big indoor painting project planned. Working indoors was a good idea, it turns out.

I woke up yesterday to find two inches of snow on the ground, my mother's daffodils frozen in place and tulip leaves buried under the snow.

Today, I called Lore Van Lierop, co-owner of Puyallup's Van Lierop Bulb Farm
http://www.vanlieropbulbfarm.com/ to ask her about snow damage. She said there were no worries. "The bulbs kind of like the snow," she said.

Van Lierop said tulips are "taking their time this year" due to the cold nights we've been having. But, they'll come up soon enough.

I'll finish this post with a shot of my mother's greenhouse after Sunday's snowstorm. It's missing part of its roof from the December storm. That'll be my first outdoor project of the year.

Categories: Ahhh, that's adorable

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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