Weather: April in Like a Lion Too!, 1 by Kelli

Kelli wrote:
No rain yesterday - no surprise there.

Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 1:51 PM PDT on April 03, 2009
66 °F
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 30%
Dew Point: 34 °F
Wind: 4 mph Variable
Pressure: 29.77 in (Falling)
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 9 out of 16
Clouds: Few 4500 ft
(Above Ground Level)

another one of those tulips - In case you are wondering why I planted something that isn't supposed to bloom here, it is because they will bloom if refrigerated for 8 weeks before planting. I did that in the fall of 2006 and they all bloomed in 2007. I was going to dig them up for re-refrigeration, but didn't get to it but some of them bloomed in 2008 and again in 2009. I would say that the foliage returned for basically all of them, but less than half are blooming. Still that is infinitely more than were "supposed" to rebloom. The variety is Darwin Hybrids. I'm sure each color has a name, but they just came as a mixture. (BTW, I have tried species tulips that are supposed to rebloom here and they didn't do anything.) It's also a big year for aphids for some reason.