Calkins: Good news, chilly Memphians. Some 650,000 (!) tulips will be here soon.
“This is what we wanted,” said Dale Skaggs, director of horticulture at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens. “They need the cold weather. It insulates them. It just makes the flowers better.” (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
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They planted the final tulip bulb last Tuesday.
And then came the storm.
The storm that brought cold and sleet and snow.
The storm that might deliver freezing temperatures for days.
All those poor tulips at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens. A record number of tulips! In celebration of the Dixon’s 50th anniversary!
“Right at 650,000 bulbs,” said Dale Skaggs, 56, the director of horticulture.
But now what?
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