Last week, I think it was Wednesday, I happened to look out my front window and I noticed that our very first tulip of the year was blooming in the boulevard garden bed. It was morning and I was still busy doing some things around the house, so I took note of the flower and made a mental note to go outside later in the day to take a closer look and perhaps even photograph the flower.
Unfortunately that was not to be.
At some point in the afternoon I looked out the window again and saw that the flower was missing. Someone had picked it – taking the whole stem and all.
I couldn’t believe it! Someone had taken my first tulip. I didn’t even get to enjoy it. Can you believe that?
A lot of young school children walk by our house each day. There’s an elementary school just a few blocks away. I suspect that it was probably a child that took the flower. If it was I’m not that upset. However I still would have liked to have at least taken a closer look at it and perhaps taken that photo.
The tulips shown above grow in the back garden but they aren’t blooming yet. I took that photo last spring.
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I finally have some blooms to show on Green Thumb Sunday. That is too bad about your missing tulip … some people think that they can take anything they want. I have a friend that found a whole plant missing from her garden … just the hole left!
Oh, I hate it when that happens. Even if it’s a child. How dreadful.
Never the less, the photo from last year is beautiful too. I don’t recall ever have seen a white Tulip – other than in that Tuliphouse we visited.
I got my GTS post up now and it’s maybe a bit unusual one……
That seems really, really cruel…I’m sorry you missed the first flower. This shot is lovely, though — I hope they’re this beautiful when they bloom this year!
I love tulips. I wish they would grow in the ground here, but alas Im in fla and there is no soil just sand. plus im very close to the gulf so the water table is quite salty. no good for growing dainty flowers.
Absolutely beautiful tulips!
Are you sure it wasn’t the nosey neighbor lady? Did you look in her window to see if they were sitting on her dining room table?
I suggest you install a megaphone with a recording that is activated by a motion detector. You might have some guy like James Earl Jones record
“Touch that tulip and I’ll blow your head off”
These are gorgeious! Sorry you didn’t get to enjoy your first tulip. Hope there’ll be more sprouting soon.
That totally sucks! I’m sorry yo didn’t get to enjoy that very special first one! Hope you have more blooms than you know what to do with soon!
Let’s pat both of us on the back – you and I both got our posts up on Sunday. I was late in everyone else’s day of course, but I did get it posted!
That stinks that you don’t get to enjoy your first tulip even a little bit. Hopefully, the person that took it at least takes the time to enjoy it.
The white tulips are very pretty.
Oh, I miss tulips. They don’t really grow in Florida. As for kids picking flowers, I have such a hard time gettingmy 4-year-old to understand she can’t just pick any flower she chooses. She loves to pluck them and give them to me, but she often does so in parks and at office buildings. I’m working on it, but she still has such an innocense about ownership.