So this is a picture from a month ago.  All the flowers were blooming and the colors looked gorgeous!  Of course they only lasted for a week and now they're all gone and the green leaves are lying on the ground in defeat.  If it were up to me I'd chop all the dead leaves off . . . but according to Dad the bulbs need the nutrients from the leaves so they can flower again next year.

I think the flowers are high maintenance.

I'm not sure they're worth keeping.

 

But then I see flowers like this and I'm not so sure I want to get rid of them just yet.  

But of course it's not MY choice what happens in the front yard, it's Dad's.  So I just have to do stuff without him knowing ;)  I'm thinking I'll plant some flower seeds at the base of the dead tulips so there's some color this summer.  I'll just say that birds planted the seeds, shhhhh don't tell!