The Tulip Lady

Thousands of bulbs for a great spring display

Today Michele Krause is partake in her garden with us .

I hold up in Lake Country area , in Delafield , Wisconsin . My home was built at the turn of the hundred . Up until 1987 , when I buy this home , Delafield was a town with a population of about 3,000 . My curtilage was overgrow with weeds because it was a foreclosure . I had to postulate the coin bank to have the weeds rationalize down so we could get the actuate truck in . I did n’t even own a lawnmower at the clock time .

My grounds is full ofblack walnuttrees(Juglans nigra , Zones 4–9 ) , some that are a one C old ! Through trail and computer error over the years , I establish that only certain plant grow well around fateful walnut tree trees . I have almost one Accho of demesne , so I had to design my garden in sections or rooms , and spread it out over clip .

I was a Realtor and mortgage loaner for most of my career , which pass on little time for gardening . Now I have a chore that allows me more sentence to stargaze up new project and begin to dig in . I make love to shop in garden shopping center , salvage memory board , and resale storehouse for unparalleled items for inhalation . My crony and sis gag about my shopping habit . My service department and potting shed are full of treasures . I am single , so I also had to cart all the grime , stones , and pavers into the railway yard by myself .

I want to add color and sake for several months . I started out with spring bulbs , some years found as many as 7,000 ! I purchased them at local depot late in the downslope when they were on sale . People around Ithiel Town call me theTulipLady ! I work at a local dining compartment now , and many customers are so excited when they find out I ’m the lady who owns that blue house on Main Street with all the flowers . Sometimes a neighbor will throw off a Federal Reserve note with a picture they lead . Some have paint picture of my heyday , some have used photograph as screen savers on their phones or computers because the effigy cheer them up .

I have also determine a sexual love fordayliliesand have skirt my bloom bed in the back gardens with them in the last few years . My most late project are a secret garden for my two grandsons , with wood chip path , and old iron seam frames that lead to a playhouse and tire swings . My grandson Nicholas loves blue , so many of the flowers in that garden are blue , clean , and yellow .

I love horticulture , and I love to have a different - style garden for my neighbors to enjoy . Some may think I am a little crazy , but it is deserving all the sore joint and stale wet days preparing the gardens when I hear from a neighbor that they push back by just because it cheers them up so much !

The front yard inearly spring , with the bloom just beginning .

The same view , later in the growing season , full of flush and leaf in shades of whitened and purple .

Thousands ofspring bulbsput on an unforgettable display .

A line of Narcissus pseudonarcissus in full flower .

Old iron bed skeletal system make an unusual accent mark along a path to the secret garden for the grandson .

No wonder the people in town call Michele the Tulip Lady !

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