Excellent Timing for Carnival

Just as Lent approached and many cultures embraced and celebrated carnival, this stranger reappeared in my garden. I planted several pots of them a few years ago, but no reappearance the following year made me believe that potted tulips don't get enough cold to rebloom. There is always the consideration that they may also get too much water and rot before being able to strengthen the bulb for the following year's bloom. It would be a wise course to simply dig out the bulbs from the pots each year because they do not necessarily look good popping up from under other plants. In this case the bulb was not near the edge of the pot where the sun would have heated it too much. I also make a point to only plant shallow rooted annuals above any bulbs that may be in pots, although some of them come back a second year, as did some loebilia this year.