About the end of last year, we were given a present of a small metal bucket, complete with a number of tulip bulbs, and a small bag of compost. I can’t now remember how many bulbs but it would have been eight or ten, certainly no more as the bucket was only of modest size.

These bulbs were dutifully planted out by our then five year old, and lo and behold we now have a bucket of bright red tulips. They took a little while to actually flower and at one point I feared the slugs had got to them (perhaps that is where the missing bulbs ended up), but now there is satisfactory showing. Whilst the bucket is not the most beautiful thing in the world, if you see something similar in the shops come autumn time, this is not a bad present, particularly for children.

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