Tulips

I was in Costco last week and saw that they were selling Perennials for pretty decent prices, so I decided that it might be fun to plant some tulip's around Joans yard. I bought a bag of 90 tulips, thinking I would just use a shovel, dig up the dirt, drop them in, and cover them up and it would be a relatively painless job. I was so naiive. I decided to put them on the little mound/hill at the corner of the driveway, by the road. There's all ready a tree and two bushes there, but I thought I would put them around the base of the existing plants. There were so many roots from the bushes and the tree that it was impossible to use a shovel and not hurt the roots. So, I used a mini spade/shovel thing and spent from 2:30 yesterday until almost 9 at night (with a couple breaks here and there) planting 49 of the tulips. Despite the fact that it took so long, and that my arms and hands are still aching today, I enjoyed being outside and planting. In a couple of minutes, when Ethan falls asleep for his nap, I'm going to go around the house and look for places to plant the rest of the tulips, only this time I'm only planting them where I can use a shovel! I'm going to keep some of the tulips and plant them in some of my empty pots, but I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to do with all my perennial plants this winter-since they are in pots, and therefore are supposed to brought in during the winter to prevent freezing them... I hope I can figure something out, because I want them to survive the winter. Last winter killed a bunch of my plants, such as my ivy plants, rose bush, and peony's, because I didn't know I was supposed to bring them inside. When I finally have a yard of my own I will be able to plant all my plants in the ground.