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Lots of people really dig tulips
Lewes in Bloom’s 2021 spring flowers cover the city in multitudes of color
It’s the biggest dig around. People wait with shovels and bags at the ready in Stango Park for the magic hour of 8 a.m. on April 27 to start digging up tulip bulbs planted in fall 2020 by Lewes in Bloom. Residents were allowed to dig up tulip bulbs at 11 locations in Lewes. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
April 27, 2021
Thanks to Lewes in Bloom volunteers, Lewes was alive with color this spring. The volunteers planted more than 26,000 new bulbs at 21 locations in fall 2020. That’s in addition to the 23,000 tulip, 2,000 daffodil, 900 hyacinth, 500 iris, 500 crocus and 150 allium bulbs they planted in fall 2019, with about 40 percent reblooming this past spring, making for the greatest display of blooming flowers ever seen in Lewes.
To clean out the beds in preparation for more plantings, Lewes in Bloom supervised a tulip bulb dig at 11 locations starting at 8 a.m., April 27. Hundreds of people turned out with shovels and bags in hand to take part in the dig.
Ivy Matilsky is among the youngest tulip bulb diggers as she holds her pair of large flowers.
Eliza Amaral has her hands full of tulips that she and her siblings dug up from one of the flower beds in Stango Park.
Volunteers clean out tulip beds at the Lewes in Bloom Children’s Learning Garden in Stango Park.
Tulip bulb diggers get busy at Stango Park precisely at 8 a.m.
The work goes easier with a little help from family and friends.
Loading up heir bicycles with bags of tulip bulbs are (l-r) Ivy and Jem Matilsky, and Eliza Amaral.
