Should One Tiptoe Through The Tulips?

No.  Neither necessary or adviseable.  If you are a devoted landscape gardener, and you live in Minnesota, and I were in charge of your psychological well being, I would advise planting not tulips, but another "Dutch" bulb, the narcissus.  "Daffodil"  is the "street" name for these bulbs. Are the bulbs in the world of the daffodil more beautiful than tulips? Not in my view.  Nor likely in the view of the Dutch according to history. ...

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