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Can you dig it?
Lewes in Bloom recycles tulips for replanting during annual event
It doesn’t take long to dig up hundreds of tulips in the Lewes in Bloom flower bed at the intersection of Freeman Highway and Kings Highway. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
April 28, 2023
Just in time for Earth Day, Lewes in Bloom sponsored a unique recycling project April 21, allowing most of its 38,000 tulips to be dug up and reused by thankful residents.
At 8 a.m., anxious diggers, armed with shovels and trowels and bags and tubs got down and dirty in the tulip beds throughout Lewes.
Lewes in Bloom will replant tens of thousands of new tulip bulbs this fall in time for April blooms.
Scott Schoenfeld of Lewes has a prime spot chosen to maximize his digging efforts.
With baby Kai, Jason Subach of Rehoboth Beach kneels down to dig up some bulbs.
John Thiele of Lewes has dug up a huge red tulip as he helps his family gather bulbs for replanting.
It’s the magic hour as tulip diggers start to remove tulips from the Lewes in Bloom flower bed at the entrance to Lewes along Kings Highway and Freeman Highway.
Sally Molloy of Lewes is in the thick of it as she starts digging up tulips.
The Lewes in Bloom flower bed near the Welcome to Lewes lighthouse also needed some weeding.
Ready for action, bulb diggers await for the go-ahead to start from a Lewes in Bloom volunteer.
Franz Portmann, who is from Switzerland and now lives in Lewes, nearly has his bag full of tulips.
It can get a little crowded during the annual tulip bulb dig in Lewes.
With the colorful flowers gone, these buckets are full of stems and bulbs destined for another garden.
The colorful tulips of April are but a memory now. But they are sure to return during the spring of 2024 thanks to the efforts of Lewes in Bloom volunteers.
