And the joys of gardening, I love my flowers. Each spring I decide what to plant for the most color and also for fragrance. Surely God has given us flowers to lift our spirits.
bybee, you would have liked my grandpa's tulip farm, it was in Smokey Point, Washington. Grandpa grew and sold mostly tulips, but also had sections of the other bulb flower plants, and a section of evergreen sapling trees that he grew for the state of Washington. The farm was 640 acres, 600 acres for tulips and other bulb plants and the evergreen sapplings, the remaining 40 acres had the three houses, a garage, tool shed, wood shed, barn, cabin and print shop. The farm was sold a couple years after his death, and the land was parceled out for other interests and developments. I've been back a couple of times in recent years, it is hard to imagine that all it is gone, all but the memories of Harvey R Palmer's Smokey Point Tulip Farm.