Tenacious Troost Tulips Reason Enough to Celebrate Spring
Above: approximately 25% of the garden.
If you thought you'd missed the peak blooming weekend of more than 70,000 Tulips on Troost, you should head over today to the Cleaver Family YMCA at 70th and Troost where a trail of tenacious tulips starts on 70th Street, then turns the corner before wrapping dramatically over the top of the bluff as it continues over the slope down to a mass planting by the New York Deli on E. 70th Terrace.
A virtual landscape of tulips, it is Troost Avenue's longest tulip garden, extending an entire block and it is peaking right now. What many feared lost just days ago in record-breaking low temperatures turns out to be one of Tulips on Troost's most amazing tulip successes.
Who knew tulips could be this tough!
Organizers of Tulips on Troost continue to put more tulips on Troost with the help of student volunteers from Rockhurst University tomorrow, Saturday April 21 transplanting donated bulbs from Stowers Institute. Companies and institutions with large plantings of tulips are encouraged to donate their bulbs after they have bloomed this season to further increase the number of Tulips on Troost because the Tulip Project's organizers' goal is now to plant 1,000,000 tulips on Troost Avenue.
