Missing: my darling Jacqui... the search for a lost tulip

So I couldn’t get the tulip that I wanted. I had ordered and grown “Jacqueline” the previous year – to start with almost as a joke, because it’s a friend’s name. They were pure deep-pink and lily-flowered; their photo alone made me smile. And “Jacqueline” came up beautifully. Not only did she come up the first year, but the bulbs made a repeat showing – the only tulips of that year’s vast imperial spread to manage a second time around.











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