Tulips

Tulips will break a gardeners heart. Their wild and flagrant colors, unrivaled by any other spring flower, seduce and betray. We pay top dollar for these bulbs, and those that escape the depredations of wild creatures who feast on them warm our hearts in spring. But that is only the first year. Tulips have a way of disappearing thereafter, leaving us to wonder, as the words to a popular song bemoan, where have all the flowers gone?