Tulip Report
Grade 2 Students
Nelson Rural School
Miramichi, New Brunswick Canada
We have been checking our tulips since we planted
them on October 14th and have been waiting for them to emerge. This
winter has been good and we did not have as much snow or as many
storms as last year. We thought that the tulips would be up sooner.
We are comparing our garden with St. John’s Episcopal School
in Dallas, Texas. They did not plant their garden until January
11th and their tulips emerged on January 29th. We couldn’t
believe it. A lot of us thought that ours would be up first.
When we checked the other gardens that our school had planted in
other years the tulips there emerged at the end of February and
in March. We kept checking our garden and still there was nothing.
We discovered that the other gardens had hardly any snow in them,
but our garden was still covered. We figured out that the school
was blocking our garden and it was not getting as much sunlight
during the day.
Finally when we went out on April 1st, the snow was gone and there
were little red tips coming up through the ground. Our tulips had
finally emerged! We will keep checking and measuring them and will
report when they bloom. We can’t wait!
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